Take Your Crap and Shove It Back Up Your: Amplitudes edited by Lee Mandelo
I am actively fucking angry at this collection, this editor, and over half these authors.
Or, in which I swear a lot.
Tag: BIPOC
Mini-Review: Brighter Than Scale, Swifter Than Flame by Neon Yang
A dragonslayer finds her heart…but her story doesn’t.
Not Quite Swept Away: When the Tides Held the Moon by Venessa Vida Kelley
What better way to kick off Wyrd & Wonder: Maritime than with a merman story?
April DNFs
A Palace Near the Wind; The Library at Hellebore; The Secret Market of the Dead; Fatal Shadow; Aurethia Rising; and Disco Witches of Fire Island.
Stunningly Splendiferous: Saint Death’s Herald by C. S. E. Cooney
In which the perfect book gets the perfect sequel.
Sunday Soupçons #38
A Britain where the Norman Conquest never happened, and an extremely sweet fantasy romance with reversed gender roles!
March DNFs
Important question: why do I do this to myself?
Aka, The Cursed Melodies; Transmentation/Transience; What Wakes the Bells; Gryphon King; Behooved; Aunt Tigress; Lovely Dark and Deep; The Mercy of Gods; and Dungeon Crawler Carl.
A Most Epic Magnificence: The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson
Epic fantasy that is nothing it claims to be, and EVERYTHING it wants to be!
Sunday Soupçons #36
Sapphic spider-monsters and dragon-riders!
January DNFs
The Outcast Mage; Emily Wilde’s Compendium of Lost Tales; Death of the Author; Furthermore.