I read mostly SFF and horror, leaning towards the Weird and LGBTQIA+, Jewish, Autistic, and otherwise diverse authors and themes. Books are my favorite activity (reading, writing or drawing in, making).
Nonbinary, pronouns they/them
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Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu can’t remember exactly when the question took root, but the answer was in full bloom the moment …
I enjoyed this quite a bit! It feels like a mashup of Scandinavian folklore with Time Bandits. Be prepared for some of the darker, bloodier aspects of both of those...
When the death of Iron Queen Sarelin Brey fractures the realm of Elira, Lysande Prior, the palace scholar and the …
It’s hard to give a single cohesive rating to an entire short story collection, but the one thing I can say conclusively is that every single story was absolutely gorgeous. Not a single off note. Every one of them gave me chills or left my heart racing.
The cleric Chih finds themself and their companions at the mercy of a band of fierce tigers who ache with …
With the heart of an Atwood tale and the visuals of a classic Asian period drama, Nghi Vo's The Empress …
‘My mother used to say I was born reaching, which is true. She also used to say it would get …
One young woman faces down an all-powerful corporation in this all-too-near future science fiction debut …
If you, like me, absolutely adored Archivist Wasp and Latchkey, and were always niggled by the tantalizing fragments of a world almost like our own, where the ghost may have come from and how it all fell apart... here it is, and it’s glorious. What Kornher-Stace has done here, writing a post-apocalypse backwards to its origin, is like nothing I’ve read anywhere else.
Wind: To match one's body with one's heart
Sand: To take the bearer where they …
The cover blurb from Annalee Newitz calls this a “queer-mystical fairy tale” and what a great representation that is. A big warm blanket of a queer fairy tale. Yes there’s darkness and bones and ghosts and flesh eating flies like in any good fairy tale, but there’s hope and growth too. Tachyon, I hope you consider publishing a complete birdverse anthology someday, R. B.’s work belongs in a great gilt-edged tome.
In a small Western Queensland town, a reserved young woman receives a note from one …
HOT DAMN.
That’s a big meh from me.
Started out interesting, but never actually made good on any of its promises, and just got increasingly twee in its delivery.
Also, this is on me a little, but all the verbiage on the jacket about “women’s bodies” should’ve given me a hint about how terfish it was going to read like. Not giving this bullshit a pass anymore.
The highly-anticipated, genre-defying new novel by award-winning author Akwaeke Emezi that explores themes of identity …
Wow. I had actual goosebumps through the whole final chapter. Should be recommended reading in gradeschools, for sure.
From the author of Gods of Jade and Shadow comes this reimagining of the classic …
What a vivid book, so dark and gorgeously detailed. The best modern gothic horror I’ve read or watched, hands down. I loved it.
