Sunday Soupçons #56
A traveller’s guide to fantastical cities, and an ex-harpy taking down fascists with a sword of uncertainty!
Tag: five star reviews
Indescribable, Unputdownable, Instant New Fave: Bodies of Magic by Freya Marske
A book that asks ‘what would a world with healing magic look like?’ via five disaster-queers!
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.
Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger: A Dance of Burning Blades by M.H. Ayinde
UNSURPRISINGLY, SECOND-BOOK-SYNDROME IS NOT A CONCERN HERE.
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.
I Have Been Ruined For All Other Literature: MAEJ by Dale Stromberg
Lord of the Rings meets Shakespeare in a matriarchy.
12 Months’ Recs; or, the Best Fantasy I’ve Read in the Last Year
Books that cast a long shadow.
The Perfect Cosy Fantasy: Chai and Charmcraft by Lynn Strong
It’s Middle Eastern cosy queer fantasy, and it’s PERFECT.
I’ve Been Starving For Exactly This: Hazelthorn by CG Drews
Queer autistic rage meets botanical horror in the most Gothic of Gothic manors.
Sunday Soupçons #50
Irish High Fantasy and a DELICIOUS collection of novellas!