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!!!
Tag: reviews: urban fantasy
Between How Great It Sounded and How Great It Wasn’t: The Dissonance by Shaun Hamill
It was going so well – until it jumped off a cliff.
Come For the Aesthetic, Stay For the Feels: Evocation by S.T. Gibson
This one’s all vibes and gorgeous prose and Feels, my friends.
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.
Simply Divine: Godly Heathens by H. E. Edgmon
A nonbinary Seminole teen discovers they’re the god of magic from another world – and the rest of their pantheon wants them very, very dead.
Easily one of the best books I’ve read this year.
No More Playing Nice: I Feed Her To the Beast and the Beast Is Me by Jamison Shea
In which a Black queer ballerina embraces monstrousness.
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.
Sunday Souçons #16
A Wizard of Earthsea and Not Good For Maidens – lackluster wizardry and a singularly un-tempting Goblin Market!
The Story’s Not Over, It’s Ablaze: Ember Boys by Gregory Ashe
You absolutely, categorically cannot read Ember Boys before you’ve read the Hollow Folk books.
But once you’ve read Hollow Folk? You absolutely, categorically cannot not read Ember Boys.
Revels and Roars and Might Just Rip Your Throat Out: Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder
I can’t even come close to doing this book justice, but I tried!