Knitting designer, former reference librarian, SFF reader
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Content warning Spoilery child abuse CW
One of the mysteries Celehar is investigating turns out to be that a foundling school for adolescent girls is forcing them to pose for pornographic photographs. The posing and the photographs are not described in any way, but I thought it might still be difficult for some people.
In The Grief of Stones, Katherine Addison returns to the world of The Goblin …
Goblin Emperor and Witness for the Dead are comfort books for me, and I suspect this book will be one too; there’s something about the writing, the worldbuilding, and the way the characters interact with each other that I really like.
However, Witness for the Dead and Grief of Stones are both really clearly detective novels, and the main character has some attitudes around his work that I find distressing. (Note that I don’t think they are necessarily shared by the author, though I don’t know for certain.)
In any case, I found Grief of Stones more stressful than the previous two books.
CW: suicide, rape mention, stillbirth mention, violence
I’m going to reply to this with another CW that’s a bit more spoilery.
The London Silver Vaults--for well over a century, the largest collection of silver for sale …
I’m getting less and less interested in reading cop stories, but I like the people in these books and the magical society stuff. Anyway, I enjoyed it well enough.
A Desolation Called Peace is a 2021 space opera science fiction novel by Arkady Martine. It is the sequel to …
Just as hard-fought peace has come to the land of Staunton, war hero Sir Anthony …
I’ve loved most of the books I’ve read by Stevermer, particularly A College of Magics, but while the language in this one was beautiful and the intrigue was kind of fun, by the end of the book I was disappointed. I felt like the end didn’t work with the rest of the book, and I didn’t care about any of the characters.
As an artist and a magical investigator, Elizabeth is the perfect choice when midwife Rosemary comes to her for help …
After touring the rural areas of Panga, Sibling Dex (a Tea Monk of some renown) and Mosscap (a robot sent …
In The Grief of Stones, Katherine Addison returns to the world of The Goblin Emperor with a direct sequel …
Rathna has a gift for doorways.
When a portal in the Scottish Highlands stops working, …
Reread; I enjoyed it.
Reread; I really enjoyed this last time I read it.
It's been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their tools; centuries since they wandered, en …
Rathna has a gift for doorways.
When a portal in the Scottish Highlands stops working, she is one of the …
