Award-winning author Malinda Lo returns to the Bay Area with another masterful coming-of-queer-age story, this time set against the backdrop of the first major Supreme Court decisions legalizing gay marriage. And almost sixty years after the end of Last Night at the Telegraph Club, Lo's new novel also offers a glimpse into Lily and Kath's lives... Continue Reading →
Best and Worst Series of 2022 Book Tag
I first did this tag way back in 2019 (check it out here) and had even more fun posting it last year, which you can find here. While I'm still figuring out what books will make it to my 2022 favorites list (it's currently at 48 and I haven't even started my Dec reading ...),... Continue Reading →
ARC Review: Empire of Exiles by Erin M. Evans
Twenty-seven years ago, a Duke with a grudge led a ruthless coup against the empire of Semilla, killing thousands. He failed. The Duke was executed, a terrifyingly powerful sorcerer was imprisoned, and an unwilling princess disappeared.The empire moved on.Now, when Quill, an apprentice scribe, arrives in the capital city, he believes he’s on a simple... Continue Reading →
Audiobook Review: Stars and Bones by Gareth L. Powell
From the multi BSFA award-winner comes a stunningly inventive action-packed science-fiction epic adventure. A brand-new series for fans of Becky Chambers and Ann Leckie.Seventy-five years from today, the human race has been cast from a dying Earth to wander the stars in a vast fleet of arks—each shaped by its inhabitants into a diverse and... Continue Reading →
ARC Review: The Stars Undying by Emery Robin
A spectacular space opera debut perfect for readers of Ann Leckie's Ancillary Justice and Arkady Martine's A Memory Called Empire, inspired by the lives and loves of Cleopatra and Julius Caesar.Princess Altagracia has lost everything. After a bloody civil war, her twin sister has claimed not just the crown of their planet Szayet but the Pearl of its... Continue Reading →
ALC Mini Review: Even Though I Knew the End by C. L. Polk
A magical detective dives into the affairs of Chicago's divine monsters to secure a future with the love of her life. This sapphic period piece will dazzle anyone looking for mystery, intrigue, romance, magic, or all of the above.An exiled augur who sold her soul to save her brother's life is offered one last job... Continue Reading →
ARC/Audiobook Review: The Genesis of Misery by Neon Yang
An immersive, electrifying space-fantasy from Neon Yang, author of The Black Tides of Heaven, full of high-tech space battles and political machinations, starring a queer and diverse array of pilots, princesses, and prophetic heirs.This is the story of Misery Nomaki (she/they) – a nobody from a nowhere mining planet who possesses the rare stone-working powers... Continue Reading →
US Cover Reveal : The Red Scholar’s Wake by Aliette de Bodard
I've actually never done a cover reveal post on my blog in all these years but when I got an opportunity for revealing the cover of THE RED SCHOLAR'S WAKE, US edition, I knew I had to do it because Aliette is one of my all time favorite authors and I've been eagerly awaiting the... Continue Reading →
Book Review: This Wicked Fate by Kalynn Bayron
How much would you risk to save the ones you love? Would you tempt even the most dangerous fate?Briseis has one chance to save her mother, but she'll need to do the impossible: find the last fragment of the deadly Absyrtus Heart. If she is to locate the missing piece, she must turn to the... Continue Reading →
Audiobook Review: Portrait of a Thief by Grace D. Li
Ocean’s Eleven meets The Farewell in Portrait of a Thief, a lush, lyrical heist novel inspired by the true story of Chinese art vanishing from Western museums; about diaspora, the colonization of art, and the complexity of the Chinese American identity.History is told by the conquerors. Across the Western world, museums display the spoils of war, of conquest, of... Continue Reading →