A Paean of Hope Against the Dark: Ansible–A Thousand Faces by Stant Litore
Ansible was pitched to me as featuring a ‘bisexual hijabi time traveler’, and you know what, that really is all I need to hear.
Tag: F/F
Sunday Soupçons #3
A season of short stories, and an exquisitely beautiful trilogy!
Fucked-Up Elves Are Fucking Awesome: Pennyblade by J. L. Worrad
Grimdark elves with seriously outside-the-box worldbuilding!
Perfectly Splendiforous: The Ruthless Lady’s Guide to Wizardry by C.M. Waggoner
Listen, this book is simply gold-plated.
Monster Girls Coming For Your Heart: The Midnight Girls by Alicia Jasinska
Gorgeous prose + glorious queer monster-girls = witches that will steal your heart away.
Rhapsodic Prose and a Queer Cast You’ll Adore: The All-Consuming World by Cassandra Khaw
Before this, I had never read Khaw’s work before. They mostly write horror, and I am a total whimp about horror.
I don’t care. After reading The All-Consuming World, I will read anything Khaw writes.
Look Like the Innocent Flower, Kill Them With Your Blossoms: The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri
I still get chills just thinking about it. The subversiveness. The pure fucking cleverness and originality. The deceptively subtle brilliance of it all.
Wow.
Fine, Fine, Awful: Three Mini-Reviews
Two books that are perfectly okay, and one that is actively terrible. Feel free to skip and avoid the negativity!
Like Shotgunning Summer Sunshine: One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston
This book is an outpouring of feels and laughs and found-family and queer celebration, and I could not possibly love it more.
So Many Ways to be People: A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine
An epically beautiful sci fi that asks what it means to be a person.