Review – The River Has Roots

Posted January 13, 2025 by Nicky in Reviews / 4 Comments

Review – The River Has Roots

The River Has Roots

by Amal El-Mohtar

Genres: Fantasy
Pages: 144
Rating: four-stars
Synopsis:

In the small town of Thistleford, on the edge of Faerie, dwells the mysterious Hawthorn family.

There, they tend and harvest the enchanted willows and honour an ancient compact to sing to them in thanks for their magic. None more devotedly than the family’s latest daughters, Esther and Ysabel, who cherish each other as much as they cherish the ancient trees.

But when Esther rejects a forceful suitor in favor of a lover from the land of Faerie, not only the sisters’ bond but also their lives will be at risk…

I received a copy of this book for free in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.

For whatever reason, Amal El-Mohtar’s work with Max Gladestone (This Is How You Lose The Time War) left me rather cold, so I wasn’t sure what to expect from The River Has Roots. Still, a solo work is quite different to a joint one, and I was curious, so I snagged this one to give it a shot — and really liked it. Mohtar’s style works well in this fairytale retelling (which I ID’d fairly quickly), and the narrative works well with the fairytale style. There’s a touch of the Valente/McGuire-style commentary on fairytales (heck, even C.S. Lewis), which never dips into condescension. Just… storytelling, explaining the world, as fairytale narrators can do in a way which adds to the worldbuilding and tone of the story.

Fairytale retellings can sometimes fall down by sticking too close to their origins, but Mohtar is careful to flesh out the two sisters, Esther and Ysabel, and their needs and wants. It stops short of explaining too much (despite the helpful narrator): Rin remains a little bit of a mystery, as does Agnes Crow — but there’s more than enough to tantalise.

I was a bit worried about the pacing given my progress through the book, but all made sense when I realised the review copy also came with a teaser for an upcoming book of short stories. The River Has Roots was the perfect length, I think, with the ending leaving enough questions to leave the reader some work to do with the imagination.

Rating: 4/5

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Review – The Paper Boys

Posted January 12, 2025 by Nicky in Reviews / 0 Comments

Review – The Paper Boys

The Paper Boys

by D.P. Clarence

Genres: Romance
Pages: 358
Rating: one-star
Synopsis:

Don't hold the front page. Hold the guy who wrote it.

Sunny Miller's dream job on London's Fleet Street has become a nightmare. His boss at the Bulletin hates him, the sub-editors keep putting comedy headlines on his attempts at serious journalism, and he's just been scooped by that posh bellend from the Sentinel, Ludo Boche.

Worst of all for this working-class boy from Leicester, the lads in London aren't willing to date a guy who writes for Britain's trashiest tabloid. Apparently, they have standards.

Up the respectable end of Fleet Street, Ludo Boche is literally making headlines. He's the son of the editor and the heir to an establishment media dynasty, so his success is assured-if he can stop singing showtunes long enough to get any work done, that is. There's just one problem: everyone seems more interested in using his connections to get a job at the Sentinel than they are in dating him.

Sunny and Ludo come from different worlds. They are talented, ambitious, and in fierce competition for the same big story.

The last thing they should do is fall in love.

Okay. I’m going to admit up front that I ended up skimming D.P. Clarence’s The Paper Boys. I skimmed a lot, because by page 10, I wanted to claw my own eyes out rather than keep reading, but also I’m stubborn and wanted to write a review, and I don’t do that if I haven’t given a book a bit more than 10 pages.

It sounds like a very fun concept — two young gay journalists who’re rivals end up getting together while competing over the same big story? Sign me up! Buuut it’s a romance that’s being written by someone who wants to write “non-smut” romance because sex scenes don’t drive the plot forward, which… does not encourage me that he’s read a lot of romance and knows the genre he’s throwing himself into. Sex scenes can build characters, relationships, and yes, drive plot (KJ Charles being my #1 example of all these things; Cat Sebastian, too). To dismiss them as almost all failing to “drive the plot” tells me the author doesn’t understand the genre, and that (for me) is a bit of a red flag right there.

It’s also attempting to be profoundly British, but it’s been written by an Austalian who has “wonderful beta readers and a fantastic development editor who were all hyper-aware of the British class system” (quote from his FAQ).

That’s a funny way of saying “British people who read this and thought I did well”, and makes me wonder if those beta readers and development editor were British or not. It’s also possible that they are, or some of them are, but their experience of Britishness is very different from mine; that’s a fair point in mitigation. But.

Mostly it felt like it was trying way, way, way too hard. Some people in Britain do say “proper” regularly, in spoken and informal communication (e.g. “it was raining proper hard” or “it was proper cold out”), but to repeat it so often (someone counted 90+ times in the story, but by page 10 it felt like I’d encountered it every other sentence already) foregrounds it way more than is necessary to give the flavour of how a British person might speak.

I’m not going to say that literally nobody uses the word “jolly” like Ludo does, as well, but nobody I know or have ever known does. You might say “jolly good”, or “you jolly well should”, maybe, but… it really, really wouldn’t be that common.

And the class stuff… well. It didn’t match my experience, let’s just say that. Someone from that background would probably say “gay”, not “queer” (in my experience). Someone from that background probably wouldn’t call people “class traitors” (even jokingly) for being interested in the Royal Family (it’s, in my experience, common among the working class; it’s the middle class who’re uncomfortable about them). Labour are the “socialists” (insofar as anyone is, and not really in any practical sense), not Lib Dems.

If I haven’t said “in my experience” enough, add it in as many times as Sunny said “proper” or Ludo said “jolly” until it’s clear. And obviously what is “typical” is just a very broad statement: there are lots of working class people who are sceptical about the Royal Family as a whole institution, and you absolutely can write stories with them in. It’s just not written in a way that rings true; it didn’t hang together for me.

Overall, it was clearly never going to work for me. Which is not to say it wouldn’t work for anyone, including potentially other British people. But it doesn’t read to me at all like it was written by someone with a very good understanding of how to make it sound British without caricature and stereotyping.

That said, in my skimming I did come across some very cute scenes between Ludo and Sunny, and despite the author’s comments about smut scenes, he did pay some attention to the chemistry between the two and showing some not-explicitly-sexual intimacy, which helps to make their relationship feel real. The romance in and of itself is not unenjoyable — I just couldn’t enjoy it past (waves hand) all of that.

Rating: 1/5

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Review – They Came To Slay

Posted January 11, 2025 by Nicky in Reviews / 0 Comments

Review – They Came To Slay

They Came To Slay: The Queer Culture of DnD

by Thom James Carter

Genres: Non-fiction
Pages: 112
Series: Inklings
Rating: four-stars
Synopsis:

Since its inception decades ago, the tabletop roleplaying game Dungeons & Dragons has offered an escape from the real world, the chance to enter distant realms, walk in new shoes, and be part of immersive, imaginative tales as they unfold. More so, in Thom James Carter's opinion, it's a perfect vessel for queer exploration and joy.

Journey on, adventurer, as Dungeon Master Thom invites readers into the game's exciting queer, utopian possibilities, traversing its history and contemporary evolution, the queer potential resting within gameplay, the homebrewers making it their own, stories from fellow players, and the power to explore and examine identity and how people want to lead their lives in real and imagined worlds alike.

Grab a sword and get your dice at the ready, this queer adventure is about to begin.

I’m not personally into D&D, though I know a lot of people who are and I’m close enough to the periphery that Thom James Carter’s They Came To Slay sounded interesting. It’s full of enthusiasm for D&D and its possibilities — possibilities for everyone, not just queer people, but especially for the opportunities it allows for queer people to explore and be recognised.

I’m vaguely aware of some critiques of Wizards of the Coast, and this book is largely positive toward the company, often suggesting that things are trending toward the better as far as queer representation goes. I don’t know enough about it to know if that’s true, and as far as I understand it, that’s not the only reason to be wary of the company, but it is interesting to read about the queer-positivity.

D&D still isn’t for me, but it does sound like there’s a joyous queer community around it, and that’s lovely.

Rating: 4/5

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Stacking the Shelves & The Sunday Post

Posted January 11, 2025 by Nicky in General / 26 Comments

Wooo, the weekend! It’s been a cold and icy week here, really treacherous (including our car dramatically almost trying to slip off the back of our carpark and down onto the house a few metres below!), but we’re doing okay. Hope everyone else is doing alright.

Books acquired this week

For a certain value of “this week”… time for the final installment of books I got for Christmas!

First up, the remains of the fiction:

Cover of The Apothecary Diaries (light novel) by Natsu Hyuuga Cover of The Sunbearer Trials by Aiden Thomas Cover of Thus Was Adonis Murdered by Sarah Caudwell

Cover of Song of the Six Realms by Judy I. Lin Cover of The Village Library Demon-Hunting Society by C.M. Waggoner Cover of Seams Like Murder by Tilly Wallace

Technically there’s a little more fiction to come that I haven’t shown off, since I had a couple of vouchers to spend after Christmas (and my wife got me a couple more for non-Christmas reasons), but we’ll save that for next week.

You might’ve noticed that I already featured a volume one of The Apothecary Diaries a few weeks ago — that was volume one of the manga, though, and I decided to dig into the light novel. This isn’t at all confusing! Other than that, there’s a couple of picks that were just recommended somewhere (e.g. on Shepherd), plus Thus Was Adonis Murdered, which I was suddenly seeing everywhere a month or so ago.

Next, the rest of the non-fiction!

Cover of A Short History of British Architecture: From Stonehenge to the Shard, by Simon Jenkins Cover of A History of Britain in Ten Enemies by Terry Deary Cover of Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You To Hate, by Anna Bogutskaya Cover of Selfish Genes to Social Beings by Jonathan Silvertown

Cover of Endangered Languages by Evangelina Adamou Cover of Into the Tangled Bank by Lev Parikian Cover of The Paper Chase: The Printer, the Spymaster & The Hunt for the Rebel Pamphleteers, by Joseph Hone

As ever, it’s a bit of a mix.

And that’s the last of the enormous Christmas haul (part one, part two)… except for a couple of books I bought later with vouchers etc. Next week is really, really the last of it!

Posts from this week:

First up, a quick roundup of reviews…

And some non-review posts:

What I’m reading:

First up, a quick roundup of the books I’ve read in the last week — which has been a pretty quiet one, by my recent standards! Reviews will be showing up in due course (with one of them already posted).

Cover of Selfish Genes to Social Beings by Jonathan Silvertown Cover of Look Up, Handsome, by Jack Strange Cover of What An Owl Knows by Jennifer Ackerman Cover of Tea on Sunday by Lettice Cooper

This weekend I’m hoping to spend some more time reading, but we’ll see how it goes. I’d certainly like to dig back into A Gentle Noble’s Vacation Recommendation, since volume 10 has just come out on Friday, and I’ve got started on the light novels for The Apothecary Diaries. Buuut we’ll see where my whim takes me: I read 66 books in December, so if my brain wants a rest, a rest it shall have.

How’s everyone else doing?

Linking up with Reading Reality’s Stacking the Shelves, Caffeinated Reviewer’s The Sunday Post, and the Sunday Salon over at Readerbuzz, as usual!

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Review – A Side Character’s Love Story, vol 6

Posted January 10, 2025 by Nicky in Reviews / 0 Comments

Review – A Side Character’s Love Story, vol 6

A Side Character's Love Story

by Akane Tamura

Genres: Manga, Romance
Pages: 160
Series: A Side Character's Love Story #6
Rating: four-stars
Synopsis:

After dreaming of it for so long, Tanaka and Irie are finally a couple. Even as she relishes her modest happiness, Tanaka can't help but worry that Irie seems to enjoy talking with other people more than he does with her. A small new adventure begins for this side character, who only wishes to grow closer to her boyfriend...

Aaaah, volume six of Akane Tamura’s A Side Character’s Love Story is so cute. In this volume, their friends urge them to actually use one another’s personal names instead of family names, and Nobuko meets Hiroki’s family.

I love how patient Hiroki is, telling Nobuko they can go at their own pace… but how she pushes through discomfort to be as brave as he is about advancing their relationship. It’s just, aaah, despite Nobuko’s anxieties and their mutual awkwardness, they are so sincere and so dedicated to their relationship.

This is #relationshipgoals right here.

Rating: 4/5

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Review – Space Rover

Posted January 9, 2025 by Nicky in Reviews / 0 Comments

Review – Space Rover

Space Rover

by Stewart Lawrence Sinclair

Genres: History, Non-fiction, Science
Pages: 160
Series: Object Lessons
Rating: four-stars
Synopsis:

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

In 1971, the first lunar rover arrived on the moon. The design became an icon of American ingenuity and the adventurous spirit many equated with the space race. The lunar roving vehicles (LRVs) would be the first and last manned rovers to date, but they provided a vision of humanity's space-faring future: astronauts roaming the moon like space cowboys.

Fifty years later, that vision feels like a nostalgic fantasy, but the LRV's legacy would pave the way for Mars rovers like Sojourner, Curiosity and Perseverance, who afforded humanity an intimate portrait of our most tantalizingly (potentially) colonizable neighbor. Other rovers have made accessible the world's deepest caves and most remote tundra, extending our exploratory range without risking lives. Still others have been utilized for search and rescue missions or in clean up operations after disasters such as Chernobyl.

For all these achievements, rovers embody not just our potential, but our limits. Examining rovers as they wander our terrestrial and celestial boundaries, we might better comprehend our place, and fate, in this universe.

The Object Lessons series hasn’t always lived up to my hopes, with books that seem more like autobiographies than examinations of a type of object. Stewart Lawrence Sinclair’s Space Rover blends the two: there are definitely highly personal chapters, talking about the people who influenced him, and surprising connections to the space program and the space rovers, but he does also discuss the process of creating the rovers, the pitfalls, and the work they’ve done.

He also tries to ask — though not really at very much depth — why we create these rovers, what they do for us, and what they mean to us. I think the answers are complicated and he just touches on a few, rather than being exhaustive. In a way, he only briefly touches on how personally involved we get with the rovers, except that the book itself as a whole is a symptom of that fascination.

Personally, I think that one reason we identify so much with the rovers is that they can be our eyes and hands in a place we could not survive. It’s easy to identify with being the eye behind the camera: more than an astronaut can (having a personality, politics, opinions, needs), a rover can get out of its own way and personify all of us.

Rating: 4/5

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Review – A Man and His God

Posted January 8, 2025 by Nicky in Reviews / 0 Comments

Review – A Man and His God

A Man and His God

by Janet Morris

Genres: Fantasy
Pages: 39
Rating: one-star
Synopsis:

An immortalized cavalry commander joins forces with the high-priest of the god of war.... Where myth meets legend, two men kiss and Tempus' world changes forever. Meet and mourn the Slaughter Priest in "A Man and His God." In this canonical short novel, the Sacred Band begins when Abarsis, Slaughter Priest, brings his Sacred Band to Tempus and dies in his arms.

In this pivotal story, the Sacred Band is formed from love and death....

"Tempus put an arm under Abarsis' head and gathered him up, pulling the wounded priest across his lap. “Hush, now.”

“Soon, soon,” said the paling lips. “I did well for you. Tell me so… that you are content. O Riddler, so well do I love you, I go to my god singing your praises. When I meet my father, I will tell him… I… fought beside you.”

“Go with more than that, Stepson,” whispered Tempus, who leaned forward and kissed him gently on the mouth; and Abarsis breathed out his soul while their lips yet touched."

This landmark short novel contains what may be the first male/male kiss in modern fantasy, and was widely reprinted, after appearing in somewhat different form in Thieves' World, in the Science Fiction Book Club, two Issac Asimov collections, and the Baen Book "Tempus" by Janet Morris.

It’s hard to know how to rate or talk about Janet E. Morris’ A Man and His God. As I understand it, it’s part of a larger world, and though it’s listed as being only 39 pages, I’d swear it was at least twice that. Maybe it was printed with the tiniest font imaginable.

Anyway, it has a semi-mythic register, and follows Tempus, a warrior who is currently on the outs with his god. It seems from the narrative that he’s cursed because he slept with his sister, and his sister is cursed because she manipulated him into it. Tempus’ feelings and intentions are often unclear, and I think that isn’t helped by the fact that this is actually cut out from a larger narrative.

The story is full of a general contempt for life and specifically for people different than oneself and for women. There is a kiss between Tempus and another man, Abarsis, as he dies, and there’s the Sacred Band who are all paired warriors, but… I can’t say that it felt particularly queer-positive in any way. There’s lots of violence, gratuitous levels of it, and torture.

Maybe it all fits together better if you read the whole original collection rather than these cut-out-and-revised fragments. That said, this part was published alone both in the past and now, so it should stand alone.

I think there’s an angle from which I can see that this is cleverly done, but the general contempt for everything that oozed off Tempus didn’t endear him to me, and it isn’t clear to me what level this is coming from: the character, the setting, the narrative, or the author. It’s not my thing either way, but one could admire it more if one was sure that the author doesn’t think they’re portraying a true hero.

Rating: 1/5

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WWW Wednesday

Posted January 8, 2025 by Nicky in General / 2 Comments

Wednesday again already! Well, at least I feel I have more to report this time…

Cover of What An Owl Knows by Jennifer AckermanWhat have you recently finished reading?

I just finished up What an Owl Knows, by Jennifer Ackerman. It’s an investigation of owls and how they do what they do, what exactly they do, and also how humans interact with and impact them. I learned some fascinating stuff, for instance that a particular species of screech owl catches blind snakes (they’re tiny) and carries them to its nest, and the snake then keeps the nest clear of e.g. maggots and so on. Baby owls that grow up with blind snakes in the nest grow 50% faster and healthier.

Cover of Tea on Sunday by Lettice CooperWhat are you currently reading?

I’ve plunged into Tea on Sunday, by Lettice Cooper, which I think was December’s book from my British Library Crime Classics subscription (which sends me the most recently published book in the series each month). It’s not actually that old, from the ’70s, but as the introduction says, it has a very classic feel all the same. I’m enjoying it well enough so far; it’s the slow and methodical type, and I feel like the first 100 pages have been mostly giving us character portraits of the suspects. Which is not a complaint!

Via Serial Reader, I’m now finally reading Anna K. Green’s The Leavenworth Case; it’s such a classic that I’ve meant to read it for a long time. I’m not very far into it yet, though.

Cover of The Spellshop by Sarah Beth DurstWhat will you be reading next?

I’m not sure, to be honest. I’ve been a bit slow and uninspired with my reading, so I want to make sure it’s something that grabs my attention. Perhaps I’ll return to The Spellshop — I only stalled out on that because I switched to some more seasonal reading, and I do want to finish it.

What about you?

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Review – Saints

Posted January 7, 2025 by Nicky in Reviews / 0 Comments

Review – Saints

Saints: A New Legendary of Heroes, Humans and Magic

by Amy Jeffs

Genres: History, Non-fiction
Pages: 448
Rating: four-stars
Synopsis:

In Saints, Amy Jeffs retells legends born of the medieval cult of saints. She draws on 'official' lives, vernacular romances, artworks and obscene poetry, all spanning from the fourth to the sixteenth centuries. The legends' heroes originate from as far east as Turkey and North Africa and as far west as Britain and Ireland. Saints includes such enduring super saints as Brigid, George, Patrick and Michael, as well as some whose legends are less well known (Scoithín, Euphrosyne and Ia) or else couched in prejudice (William of Norwich).

Jeffs guides her readers from images high on the walls of medieval churches, through surviving treasures of the elite and into the shifting silt of the Thames, where lie the lowly image-bearing badges once treasured by pilgrims. She opens manuscripts that hold wondrous stories of the lives and deaths of wayfaring monks, oak-felling missionaries and mighty martyrs. With tales of demons and dragons, with the stubborn skull of a giant, with stories of sleepers in a concealed Greek cave, Saints will enchant and transport readers to other worlds.

The commentaries following the stories offer a history of each saint and, together, trace the rise and fall of the medieval cult of saints from the first martyrs to the Protestant Reformation. And all this maps onto the passing year: from St Mungo in January to St Thomas Becket in December.

Saints' legends suffused medieval European culture. Their heroes' suffering and wonder-working shaped landscapes, rituals and folk beliefs. Their tales spoke of men raised by wolves, women communing with flocks of birds and severed heads calling from between bristling paws.

Amy Jeffs’ Saints is intended to bring some of the excitement and attention we have for retellings of folklore to hagiographies (stories telling the lives of saints). She’s chosen a small sampling of all the possible stories and retold them, following each with some commentary on its context, meaning, etc. Most of them were unfamiliar to me (I’ve only studied a few Vitae, those which mention King Arthur), so the commentary was much-needed.

Jeffs’ style in retelling the stories is rather personal, informal, sympathetic; she gets into the heads of the characters and has us inhabit them for a few moments, which I rather liked, though it’s not usually how saints’ stories get told. That’s because she really is recounting them as folklore, as stories, rather than with belief — which, for some readers, might not be acceptable, I’m sure.

I would personally have liked a bit more of the commentary, since I have a reasonable feel for what hagiographies are like, but I enjoyed it. The paper cut illustrations add something as well, I think, though I’m not the most visual person.

Rating: 4/5

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Top Ten Tuesday: Upcoming Books of 2025

Posted January 7, 2025 by Nicky in General / 24 Comments

Today’s theme from That Artsy Reader Girl‘s Top Ten Tuesday is “most anticipated books releasing in the first half of 2025”, so let’s take a look…

Cover of Murder as a Fine Art by Carol Carnac Cover of A Gentle Noble's Vacation Recommendation vol 10 by Misaki and Momochi Cover of But Not Too Bold by Hache Pueyo Cover of The Ten Teacups by Carter Dickson Cover of Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales, by Heather Fawcett

  1. Murder as a Fine Art, by Carol Carnac (January). Technically this isn’t new, but where would I get my hands on it other than through the British Library Crime Classics reprint? Carol Carnac is slightly better known as E.C.R. Lorac, but sadly less known than she ought to be in all her guises. Her mysteries are some of my favourites, and I’m eager to read this one.
  2. A Gentle Noble’s Vacation Recommendation, vol. 10, by Misaki, Momochi, Sando and Lamp Magonote (January). I haven’t quite read all the existing books yet, but I’m eager to keep following Lizel’s adventures, watching him charm everyone he meets, scheme like the best of ’em, and read the entire contents of a bookshop even faster than I would.
  3. But Not Too Bold, by Hache Pueyo (February). I’ve read this as an eARC already (review here), but I’m looking forward to seeing what others think. It’s a little bit gothic, a bit creepy, and yet it’s a romance too…
  4. The Ten Teacups, by Carter Dickson (February). Another one from the British Library Crime Classics collection. I’ve not always loved the work of Carter Dickson/John Dickson Carr, but I gained a bit more of an appreciation for it in the last year, and I’m curious about this one. There’s still the chance I’ll dislike it, but equally a chance it’ll be a five-star read for me.
  5. Emily Wilde’s Compendium of Lost Tales, by Heather Fawcett (February). I love this series, and I’m really happy to have received an eARC for this one as well. The formatting unfortunately leaves something to be desired (it’s an epub clearly generated straight from a PDF without cleanup), so I might hang on for the published version, alas. But I’m super excited to return to Emily’s world.
  6. The Tomb of Dragons, by Katherine Addison (March). I urgently need to get to my eARC of this, because I don’t want to wait for the release in March! And here’s firmly hoping that someone finally gives Thara Celehar a hug. (I can dream.)
  7. Murder by Memory, by Olivia Waite (March). A fun SF mystery, which I’ve already read (review here). I know a couple of people who are going to love it, and I’m going to very much enjoy their enjoyment.
  8. Everything is Tuberculosis, by John Green (March). The number of people who immediately notified this was going to be a thing when the news of it broke was… gratifying, honestly. Y’all know me! Yes, it’s high on my list, and I’m very hopeful for a new book on tuberculosis that will (I hope) make the seriousness of the situation clear to laypeople. Given my current degree and my undergrad dissertation, it probably won’t teach me anything new per se, but I’m always interested in how different people frame the problems — and you never know what someone fresh to the topic may notice or pick out as important. Either way, I expect to have Opinions.
  9. A Drop of Corruption, by Robert Jackson Bennett (April). I really liked The Tainted Cup, so I’m keen for the follow-up. I love genre mashes like fantasy and mystery, so this is catnip to me.
  10. The Potency of Ungovernable Impulses, by Malka Older (June). Again, I had an eARC copy of this and enjoyed it (review forthcoming) — it might not be my favourite of the Mossa and Pleiti books in some ways, but it was still a fun time, and I’m looking forward to having more people to talk about it with.

Cover of The Tomb of Dragons by Katherine Addison Cover of Murder by Memory by Olivia Waite Cover of Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green Cover of A Drop of Corruption by Robert Jackson Bennett Cover of The Potency of Ungovernable Impulses by Malka Older

And there we go! I’m sure there’s a lot missing, and I’m looking forward to browsing other people’s lists and learning just how much I missed out…

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