Book review: Six Crimson Cranes, by Elizabeth Lim

Tessa gifted me the hardback for this for my birthday (yes, yes, that was a few months back) and I finally got my sh#t together to read it, by buddy-reading it with Nikki. It was fun to be able to discuss it together and made the experience all the more enjoyable. This picture just does …

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Review: A Master of Djinn, by P. Djèlí Clark

On this blog, we stan P. Djèlí Clark. I've yet to be disappointed by anything he's written, and his books are generally kickass, magic-filled, queer, feminist books. I had been looking forward to this for ages, and was just waiting for the audiobook (as I've read both other novellas in this universe in audio and …

Book Review: Cemetery Boys, by Aiden Thomas

I promised a full review of this book... a few months ago when I read it with all the other Lodestar YA novels. I've been procrastinating on the delivery, but I still love the book just as much as when I first read it! The Synopsis Yadriel has summoned a ghost, and now he can’t …

Book Review: The Galaxy and the Ground Within, by Becky Chambers

I've owned this book for a while but despite absolutely loving Becky Chambers' every book I've read so far, I was not starting it. I think because it's the last in the Wayfarers series, which made me really sad. I could honestly read 20 more books in this universe, I dream of a sitcom set …

ARC Review: Seven Mercies, by Laura Lam & Elizabeth May

Seven Devils was one of my favourite books of 2021, and I Could Not Wait for the follow up, so I jumped at the chance to review the ARC from Netgalley! I also buddy-read it with Tessa, mostly for support and general yelling "wtf" at each other. (spoilers for Seven Devils in the following review, …

Small reviews: Lodestar Award for Best YA

Part 3 of the hugo series, after novellas and short stories: the Lodestar's not technically a Hugo but the ballot is the same. As an aside, I've decided I'm not going to review the Novels because I've not read about half of them. Harrow the Ninth requires me to reread Gideon because I forgot the …

Small reviews: Hugo nominated short stories

So as I explained in my post on the Hugo nominated novellas, I've signed up for the Worldcon supporter membership, which gives you access to the "voter packet", in which most authors and publishers kindly provide their nominated works for you to review! Not free, but a very cheap price for the year's favourites. So …

Review: No Man of Woman Born, by Ana Mardoll

This book was part of my OcTBRChallenge reading list, for one very shameful reason: I got the ARC for it like 2 years ago, before I even HAD a blog, when I was still using tumblr and basically only had the vaguest idea of how NetGalley worked. I downloaded it and then... completely forgot about …

Review: A Dowry of Blood, by S.T. Gibson

I requested this book as an ARC back when this blog was fairly new - and I was fairly new to Netgalley... so I then did not download it in time, it got archived, and I couldn't access it anymore. But the concept - brides of Dracula, but make it queer(er), kept intriguing me, so …

Small reviews: Hugo-nominated novellas

After a thread from Seanan McGuire earlier this year, I decided to get myself a supporting membership for Worldcon. It's in DC this year so it's safe to say I'm not going, I likely wouldn't even go if there weren't a pandemic on - but the supporting membership gives you votes in the Hugos (for …