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.
Tag: F/F
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.
Bloodied and Bejewelled: Dowry of Blood by S.T. Gibson
Gibson wields her pen like a sword and runs you through with it – but oh, you’ll thank her for it.
Coming Full Circle: The Queen’s Weapons by Anne Bishop
The ending this series deserved.
Some Gems, Some Duds: Upon a Once Time by Todd Sanders (ed.)
In which I have very mixed feelings about a short story collection.
The Past Stays the Same, But History Changes: When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain by Nghi Vo
A beautiful story that raises thoughtful points on history and who gets to tell it.