Review
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Review: Harmattan Season
More than being a crossover of detective mystery, postcolonial work, and urban fantasy, Harmattan Season by Tochi Onyebuchi is a journey through a dark tunnel of unyielding stone and depths that are no longer safe to plumb.
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Review: Black Flame
To say that I was highly anticipating Black Flame would be a colossal understatement, and it absolutely did not disappoint. I am an avid consumer of queer horror, especially in literary form, and this was almost too perfect for me.
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Review: The Incandescent
While it’s been lauded as the next Scholomance (an excellent series, by the way), Tesh’s latest book is quite different. This is a book for grown-ups.
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Review: The Immortal Choir Holds Every Voice
The Immortal Choir is a novella of the post-Trump-re-election world. In each story, the focus is never on defeating the monster, but on getting out.
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Review: Terrestrial History
I cannot recommend this book enough. It is a painfully beautiful story inspired by a hard reflection on our current fears and anxieties regarding climate catastrophes and the survival of the human race.
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REVIEW | “The Time for Doing Is Always Now”: Reading Where the Axe Is Buried in Unprecedented Times
Revolution truly succeeds only if we are unafraid to rip out the roots and start again.
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Review: The Bones Beneath My Skin by TJ Klune
TJ Klune reminds us that while joy and love are valuable to life they are not without an opposing force that makes them sweeter.
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Review: When the Moon Hits Your Eye by John Scalzi
If you’ve got questions, you’re not the only one. Every character in Scalzi’s latest normal-people-in-baffling-situations novel is struggling to come to grips with the moon transforming, or being replaced, or perhaps being hidden by the government, without warning.
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Review: The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar
I was pulled in by the music of this book from the first page. The deft playing with words was such a delight.