How Literally Dare: 3 2020 Releases That Didn’t Get the Love They Deserve
What it says on the tin: three fabulous fantasy books from 2020 that no one seems to be talking about!
Tag: recs
The (Totally Definitive) Best Fantasy & Sci-Fi Books of 2020!
We have WITCHES, we have ALIENS, we have SUPERVILLAINS, we have 21 books you absolutely must not miss!
Fantasy Featuring Fabulous Trans Leads
Five wonderful fantasy books with transgender main characters!
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 […]
Raise Your Flag Up High: Pride Flag Fantasy Book Recs
Shamelessly nabbing the idea from Rainbow Reads (which is a fantastic book blog for queer fiction, and if you’re not subscribed to their posts, you should be!) I’m going to rec a Fantasy book for each of the stripes of the Pride flag. Rainbow Reads used the original Gilbert Baker flag + the new brown […]
Queer Fantasy Rec List: Resistance & Rebellion
As I explained in my last post, I decided my first rec list this Pride would revolve around the theme of Resistance & Rebellion, in response to the events going on in the USA and Hong Kong right now. I wish I could have listed more books written or featuring PoC, but I don’t know […]
My Favourite Reads of 2020 (So Far!)
As Wyrd & Wonder comes to a close, it feels like a good time to gather together some of my favourite reads from the first half of the year. Not all of these were 2020 releases, though; plenty were amazing books I didn’t get to the year they came out. I’ve categorised them accordingly! 2020 […]
Fantastic Beasts, Here You’ll Find Them: Dragons!
Wyrd & Wonder is about celebrating the fantastic – and aren’t dragons emblematic of Fantasy? So how come we don’t actually see them that often? Think about it: we consider them genre staples, but they’re actually pretty scarce on the shelves. How many dragons have you seen lately? So I thought I’d gather together some […]
Fantastic Beasts, Here You’ll Find Them: Unicorns!
phoenix art credit Sujono Sujono For my second Wyrd & Wonder post, I wanted to feature my favourite magical creature of all time – the unicorn! Listen, I love unicorns, and I make absolutely no apologies for it. I don’t remember when I fell in love with them, but since I don’t remember a time […]
Best SFF of the Decade!
2019 is wrapping up, and 2020 is upon us. It seems only appropriate, then, to look back on the last ten years and marvel at all the literary treasures we’ve received. It’s taken a long time to assemble this list. It hasn’t been easy. Not all of these are books that I loved personally, but […]