Rent My Heart in Twain: Asunder by Kerstin Hall
A deathspeaker in an exquisitely weird world is on the run with her shadow.
Tag: five star reviews
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!!!
Sunday Soupçons #31
Elves, saints, and scholars!
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.
Miracles and Mirabilia: The West Passage by Jared Pechaček
If you forced me to describe The West Passage’s aesthetic, my answer would probably be: Medieval marginalia meets Pliny’s Natural History with a dash of biblically accurate angels.
A Wildly Imaginative Success: The Failures by Benjamin Liar
How do I sell you on a book I can’t tell you about???
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.
Genre-Defying, Genre-Defining: Rakesfall by Vajra Chandrasekera
Rakesfall breaks the mould and then your mind and refuses to put EITHER ONE back together.
Sea Serpents, Cake, and the Power of Laughter: Running Close to the Wind by Alexandra Rowland
What do you get when you mix pirates, a too-sexy monk, a supernaturally lucky trash-goblin, and the most priceless secret in the world?
A punch up that goes so hard the Establishment won’t know what hit them.
May DNFs
Garden of Delights, Keepers of the Stones and Stars, The Stars Too Fondly, and Cuckoo.