I’ve read a lot of books with their own takes on a ‘better future’.
But this is the first one I’ve ever seen that actually shows us how to make that future.
Alchemy of the streets.
Then make it queer, make it magic, make it gods-damn brilliant.
Would you risk an empire to set a demon free?
This is, genuinely, like nothing I have ever seen, read, or heard of before.
Sometimes a book is simply perfect.
Think The Handmaid’s Tale vibes, but modern, Black, queer, and with MAGIC.
Think Twilight, but grown-up, Black, queer as fuck, and featuring vampires that are unapologetically deadly.
…So the anti-Twilight, basically.
It is Every Book a Doorway’s THIRD BIRTHDAY, and obviously the only correct way to celebrate is with some of the best queer SFF I know!
So utterly exquisite that it is literally breathtaking.
Ansible was pitched to me as featuring a ‘bisexual hijabi time traveler’, and you know what, that really is all I need to hear.