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!!!
Tag: F/F
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.
July DNFs
Her Spell That Binds Me; Time’s Agent; An Education in Malice; Interstellar MegaChef; We Are the Crisis; The Tangled Lands.
Find Me On The Dark Side: Long Live Evil by Sarah Rees Brennan
You’re transported into your favourite fantasy novel. What do you do?
Set up as a prophet, obviously.
The Only Wrath Is Mine: Between Dragons and Their Wrath by Devin Madson
The title’s a lie, the blurb’s a lie, and the truth is so boring.
Hope Among Horrors: The Daughters’ War by Christopher Buehlman
Buehlman ripped my heart out of my chest and honestly, I kind of want to thank him for it.
Sweeps You Away Like a Great Typhoon: Saints of Storm and Sorrow by Gabriella Buba
This queer, Filipino, anti-colonial fantasy is exactly as awesome as it sounds!
May DNFs
Garden of Delights, Keepers of the Stones and Stars, The Stars Too Fondly, and Cuckoo.
Sweetly Shining: A Letter to the Luminous Deep by Sylvie Cathrall
Letters going back-and-forth across a water-bound world, in what will probably be the most charming book I read this year!
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!