Sunday Souçons #19
An exquisite collection of SFF short stories, and a historical romance – both extremely queer!
Tag: five star reviews
Gonna Be Legends, Already Legendary: The Eidolon by K.D. Edwards
An eidolon is ‘an idealised person or thing’, and I am here to tell you that The Eidolon is perfectly named; it is ideal in every possible way.
A Roadmap to a Future I Can Believe In: Everything For Everyone by M.E. O’Brien & Eman Abdelhadi
I’ve read a lot of books with their own takes on a ‘better future’.
But this is the first one I’ve ever seen that actually shows us how to make that future.
An Utter Delight From Start to Finish: Emily Wilde’s Encyclopedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett
An endearingly anti-social professor of faerie studies faces off against ice elves and never gets in over her head, not even once!
(She does catch Feelings, and is Not Impressed with them!)
Run, Don’t Walk: Fractured Infinity by Nathan Tavares
What do you do when it’s a choice between someone you love and the lives of billions?
You grab your person and you run.
Come For the Perfume, Stay For the Murder: Base Notes by Lara Elena Donnelly
How can you not want to read about a nonbinary serial-killing perfumer???
Gender Euphoria and Wrathful Witchery: The Scratch Daughters by H. A. Clarke
The best teen witches in print right now get even queerer and fiercer and more magical.
Wrings Your Heart Out and Leaves It Glowing: The Heretic’s Guide to Homecoming: Practice by Sienna Tristen
An optimistic fantasy that asks, how do we love the world when it stops being easy?
Making Women Out of Men: Welcome to Dorley Hall by Alyson Greaves
I should probably be worried about how quickly Greaves had me nodding along with the horrific things going on in this book…!
Hold the Moon Beneath Your Heart: Moon Dark Smile by Tessa Gratton
Would you risk an empire to set a demon free?