Some Recent Reads (and mini-reviews)
It’s hard to write about books everyone’s talking about: what is there to add to the conversation? Nonetheless, a few comments…
Tag: queer fantasy
In Music Our Memory: The Chimes by Anna Smaill
A world where music has replaced memories, and two boys who might just save it.
Magic is Here, Queer, and Ready to Fuck You Up: The Scapegracers by Hannah Abigail Clarke
Scapegracers doesn’t need you to love it. It dares you not to.
A Map to Tomorrow: Master of Poisons by Andrea Hairston
“Impossible is a word for yesterday, not tomorrow.”
I Need This to Exist: #OwnVoices Reflection on Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas
Magic shapes Yadriel’s world. Stories shape ours.
These Books Will Carve You Open: Hollow Folk series by Gregory Ashe
This series is a phoenix, and it will set your soul on fire and burn your heart to the ground, and it’s so fucking beautiful that the pain of it being over is a thousand times worse than what it puts you through.
Pure Perfection: The Dark Tide by Alicia Jasinska
The Dark Tide is perfect in every way.
That’s it. That’s the review.
Take My Breath Away: Analysing (Some of the) Beautiful Covers We’ve Been Blessed With Lately!
We have had some ridiculously gorgeous cover reveals in the last little while – so pretty I just had to showcase them! It doesn’t hurt that these are all from my most-anticipated list, as well! Once I picked my jaw up off the floor, I realised that A Dark and Hollow Star‘s cover reminded me […]
Pride Doesn’t End With June: Queer Fantasy+SciFi Books for the rest of 2020
Pride Month’s coming to an end, but that doesn’t mean the pride stops! I’ve talked a bit already about what books I’m looking forward to in the rest of 2020, but I thought I’d put together a list of the upcoming queer stories I’m most excited for – the books that’ll carry our little queer […]
Your Gender Binary Is Imaginary; Genderqueer Characters in Fantasy (+ Bonus SciFi)
More and more, we’re having an easier time finding cis queer characters in Fantasy – not an easy time; there’s still not enough of them, and publishers often don’t advertise the fact that a book is queer. But there’s more than there used to be, and the number’s steadily increasing. It’s much harder to find […]