Babadook Who? Meet Your New Queer Monster Icon: Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell
An intense, cosy, poignant comedy-horror-fantasy about a shapeshifting goo-monster who eats people.
Tag: lesbian
Sunday Soupçons #29
A messed-up portal fantasy (kinda) and trans historical horror!
A Queer Witches’ Bacchanal: The Feast Makers by H. A. Clarke
The perfect ending to the perfect series.
Or: time for Sideways and their coven to change the world.
Sunday Soupçons #28
A maybe-fantastical historical novel in Tsarist Russia, and a beautiful but horrifying queer awakening in a magical dystopia.
November DNFs
Gods carved into living bones; disappointing dragons; very bad military decisions; boring dryads; and letters I kept falling asleep reading.
Get the Hell Into Dodge City: Lucky Red by Claudia Cravens
Listen: it’s not SFF. It is the Wild West.
But it’s so, SO great!
January DNFs
False princes that flopped; feel-good sci-fi that does not feel good; a magician’s daughter whose tricks did not impress; and a magical circus that did not enchant.
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.
Mercilessly Exquisite: The Oleander Sword by Tasha Suri
Believe it or not, The Oleander Sword manages to outshine its predecessor.
Giggles and Glitter and Good Faith Politicking (Mostly): High Times in the Low Parliament by Kelly Robson
In a world overseen by fairies, parliament needs to get its act together – or else.