Genre-Defying, Genre-Defining: Rakesfall by Vajra Chandrasekera
Rakesfall breaks the mould and then your mind and refuses to put EITHER ONE back together.
Tag: sci-fi
Sunday Soupçons #30
A non-traditional fantasy classic, and queer teenage superheroes!
Sweetly Shining: A Letter to the Luminous Deep by Sylvie Cathrall
Letters going back-and-forth across a water-bound world, in what will probably be the most charming book I read this year!
You’ll Have To Pry It From My Hands: Earthflown by Frances Wren
A high-tension love story amidst a future London where cars fly and water is undrinkable.
An Unmitigated Mess: The Floating Hotel by Grace Curtis
This cosy sci fi hotel story is NOT COSY.
February DNFs
Not so bad – just two DNFs this month!
A High-Octane Religious Experience: Exordia by Seth Dickinson
Snake aliens and souls and my first six-star read of 2024!!!
December DNFs
Two Greek myth retellings, a scifi Aladdin, and a voyage that was damned from the start.
Some Phoenixes Among the Ashes: Resurrections by Ada Hoffman
Most of this collection wasn’t for me, but the stories that were make the whole book worth it.
Sunday Soupçons #26
The music industry as religion + aliens, and spirits of the land at war with each other.