Hey everyone !!!! I'm so excited to finally write a single post which is not a review or upcoming releases on this blog, and will probably be the only one for this year. Atleast this way, I'll feel like I've done something interesting for once. Ofcourse, I did this last year as well and did... Continue Reading →
SOME DESPERATE GLORY by Emily Tesh – I’ve no clue what I’ve written in my review (or is it a rant..!!!)
While we live, the enemy shall fear us.All her life Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the murder of planet Earth. Raised in the bowels of Gaea Station alongside the last scraps of humanity, she readies herself to face the Wisdom, the all-powerful, reality-shaping weapon that gave the Majoda their victory over... Continue Reading →
BEAUTY REBORN : A Beauty and Beast Retelling.. && THE MIMICKING OF KNOWN SUCCESSESS : A Holmesian mystery on Jupiter
Fantasy and reality collide in this retelling of Beauty and the Beast about a young woman’s heroic quest to save herself.Yes, I went to the woods to save my father. But I also went hoping I would be eaten by the Beast. Because I didn’t think anything else could save me.Beauty’s life is the stuff... Continue Reading →
ALC Review: The Terraformers by Annalee Newitz
The Terraformers is an equally heart-warming and thought-provoking vision of the future for fans of Becky Chambers, Kim Stanley Robinson, and Martha Wells.Destry is a top network analyst with the Environmental Rescue Team, an ancient organization devoted to preventing ecosystem collapse. On the planet Sask-E, her mission is to terraform an Earthlike world, with the help... Continue Reading →
Favorite SFF Books of 2022
It's the last Monday of 2022, so it's time for my favorite list of the year - all the books I adored from my favorite genre of FANTASY (though I will try to squeeze in a couple of sci-fi books here too). As expected, fantasy is my singular most read genre of the year, though... 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 →
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 →
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 →