I find myself in a difficult position when it comes to picking a score for today’s book. Nona The Ninth, the third book in The Locked Tomb series by Tamsyn Muir, has a complicated existence. On the one hand, Muir is one of the most talented authors around right now. Her incredible prose and outstanding…
I am not sure who the target audience is for The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy, but I think most readers would have a good time. As long as you are interested in part of the bizarre mix of contents that Megan Bannen has stuffed inside its pages you will have a ton of fun.…
Continue reading ➞ The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy – Somehow Making Undertaking Sexy And Fun
There is a very confusing forward to Sidewinders, the second book of The Fire Sacraments by Robert V.S. Redick. In it, Redick very helpfully recaps the major events of book one (which I would have been lost without) and then goes on to say that he sees Sidewinders as something between a sequel and a…
High Times in the Low Parliament, by Kelly Robson, is a strange and horny novella with a memorable title and an even more memorable cover. Unfortunately, the interior of this story is less memorable than the exterior, unless you are really craving a lukewarm erotica about a scribe who can’t keep it in her pants…
Continue reading ➞ High Times in the Low Parliament – It’s Raining Women
The Bruising of Qilwa, a novella by Naseem Jamnia, is a short story about being trans, immigration, belonging, and how plague/tragedy can change reality for many people. The story is entertaining, heartfelt, and it brings some nice representation to a genre that could always use more. However, while it is both cute and fun it…
Continue reading ➞ The Bruising of Qilwa – More Than Meets The Eye
If the sole purpose of a review was to help you understand if you would enjoy a book or not, I think I could have you out of here in a single paragraph. I believe your enjoyment of The First Binding, by R.R. Virdi, can be predicted with three simple questions. Do you like The…
I really hope Anthony Ryan reads this review because if there is one thing I want to accomplish with the following pile of text, it is to thank Ryan for finally adding a recap of the previous book to the start of one of his enormous novels. I cannot express how much better this made…
There is this weird aura around The Grief of Stones. It is being marketed as “Katherine Addison returns to the world of The Goblin Emperor with a direct sequel to The Witness For The Dead…” but I don’t understand why The Goblin Emperor is being brought up when this book has almost nothing to do…
Continue reading ➞ The Grief Of Stones – Witness For Next Month
If I was going to say only one thing about Speaking Bones, the final book in Ken Liu’s Dandelion Dynasty quartet, it would be that it is certainly its own thing. I know all of that sounds inelegant, but I got into a heated Reddit argument about this series earlier today, and arguing on an…
Locklands, the final piece of the Founders trilogy by Robert Jackson Bennett, is a story both worthy of discussion and hard to talk about. It is the last step in an increasingly complicated dance that Bennett has been leading and it ends with a beautiful flourish. Unfortunately, I can’t talk about the plot of this…
Continue reading ➞ Locklands – The End Of The World As We Know It
