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Do you know the superstition about saying “Rabbit, rabbit, rabbit” first thing on the first of the month? No? Now you do. There’s really not much more to it, other than the fact that…
Read story ↗Snake-Eater was going to ruin something, I knew that going in. A House With Good Bones ruined ladybugs. The Hollow Places gave me some real concerns about willow trees. Hemlock and Silver made me…
Read story ↗Like Sung-il Kim’s debut novel Blood of the Old Kings (translated by the incomparable Anton Hur), his follow-up Blood for the Undying Throne is a trove of badassery. It takes everything awesome about 90s…
Read story ↗Words, formerly normal, that now unnerve me thanks to Cathedral of the Drowned: meat, scoop, jelly. Words that were already uncomfortable that got worse: glutinous, birthed, slurry. Words that I use to describe Cathedral…
Read story ↗Hope is the thing with feathers. Unfortunately, in Daedalus Is Dead by Seamus Sullivan, hope is Icarus, and Icarus, like his father, is dead. This isn’t a spoiler for many reasons—not only is it…
Read story ↗Now that the long, long-anticipated Silksong is finally here, I know that I and many others are torn between playing through the whole game in a rush and holding back in order to savor…
Read story ↗There are certain settings that present a higher difficulty level for authors. Not that it’s easy to write a book even when the setting lends its heft to the narrative, but an old Victorian…
Read story ↗At this point it’s hard to write a review of a T. Kingfisher novel—not because of the pace of publication, though that is breakneck (four books this year! Four!), and not because of the…
Read story ↗Grappling with the philosophical reality of clones is a trope as old as sci-fi. Teaming up with them comes up a lot. Killing them, too. But outsourcing killing your clones to another clone is…
Read story ↗Anji Kills a King wastes absolutely no time. With a title like that there’s no reason to beat around the bush, but Evan Leikam doesn’t even bother with setting the scene before we’re watching…
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