Decadence as Defiance: The Scarlet Ball by Nghi Vo
Nghi Vo has outdone herself.
Tag: crescent classics
A Dark and Bloody Incandescence: On Sundays She Picked Flowers by Yah Yah Scholfield
I was a third of the way through when I stuck this on my Best of Year list, and having now finished it can I just say: CALLED IT.
Necromantic Perfection: The Halls of the Dead by S. M. Hallow
If Gideon the Ninth had a baby with Kushiel’s Dart that was then raised by Showtime’s Penny Dreadful, this is the book you’d get.
Joy-Full and Enchanting: Misery’s Wife by Joan Tierney
A grown-up fairytale about a trans woman questing to find her missing sisters – and it’s BEAUTIFUL.
Shapeshifting Genius: The Shape of Monsters by Tessa Gratton
The sequel to Mercy Makers is very different, and I loved it.
Happy 7th Blogiversary With Pride Flag Recs!
EVERY BOOK A DOORWAY IS SEVEN YEARS OLD TODAY!!!
12 Months’ Recs; or, the Best Fantasy I’ve Read in the Last Year
Books that cast a long shadow.
I’ve Been Starving For Exactly This: Hazelthorn by CG Drews
Queer autistic rage meets botanical horror in the most Gothic of Gothic manors.
Leave Your Assumptions at the Door: A Song of Legends Lost by M. H. Ayinde
Whatever you think this is, you’re wrong.
It’s BETTER.
A Feast of a Fantasy: The Queens of Innis Lear by Tessa Gratton
Star prophecies, earth-magic, and biracial princesses remade the King Lear story into something I adore.