Glitter is Punk, Actually: Space Opera by Catherynne M Valente
My woefully inadequate review of EUROVISION IN SPACE!
Tag: crescent classics
Rent My Heart in Twain: Asunder by Kerstin Hall
A deathspeaker in an exquisitely weird world is on the run with her shadow.
Alight With Joy: The Phoenix Keeper by S. A. MacLean
A MAGIC ZOO and WONDERFUL QUEER WOMEN and PHOENIXES, and it’s even better than I’d hoped!!!
Built Like the Tardis: The Sunforge by Sascha Stronach
You know how most of the books that get comped to Gideon the Ninth really shouldn’t be?
This one fully deserves it.
Miracles and Mirabilia: The West Passage by Jared Pechaček
If you forced me to describe The West Passage’s aesthetic, my answer would probably be: Medieval marginalia meets Pliny’s Natural History with a dash of biblically accurate angels.
Genre-Defying, Genre-Defining: Rakesfall by Vajra Chandrasekera
Rakesfall breaks the mould and then your mind and refuses to put EITHER ONE back together.
Sea Serpents, Cake, and the Power of Laughter: Running Close to the Wind by Alexandra Rowland
What do you get when you mix pirates, a too-sexy monk, a supernaturally lucky trash-goblin, and the most priceless secret in the world?
A punch up that goes so hard the Establishment won’t know what hit them.
A True Pearl: A Sweet Sting of Salt by Rosie Sutherland
The (beautifully queer) take on the selkie myth I’ve been waiting all my life for!
Babadook Who? Meet Your New Queer Monster Icon: Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell
An intense, cosy, poignant comedy-horror-fantasy about a shapeshifting goo-monster who eats people.
A Queer Witches’ Bacchanal: The Feast Makers by H. A. Clarke
The perfect ending to the perfect series.
Or: time for Sideways and their coven to change the world.