The Graces: Because You’re Mine
River Page wants to be a Grace. Within a few weeks of moving to a new town on the edge of the sea, it's all she wants and all she can think about. She…
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Cold-Forged Flame Review: Cold Hearts, Blank Minds, Can’t Lose
Marie Brennan is a true chameleon. I would never have guessed that this tough, relentless story was written by the same woman who gave us the intensely High Victorian Natural History of Dragons (plus…
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Nevernight Review: To Sit in Solemn Silence on a Deep, Dark Cliff
Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to your newest obsession. There's murder. A lot of murder. And there's mayhem. So much mayhem. Sex and drugs and--well, okay, there isn't any rock and roll, but there are…
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The Dream Quest of Vellitt Boe Review: My God, It’s Full of Stars!
A girl is missing. A student has fled from her rooms in the middle of the night after or with a young man. At first this means only—only!—that the Women's College might be in…
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The Wolf Road Review: Lone Wolf and Lonely Cub
There was a moment when I finished this book in which all I could do was sit and stare at the last blank page. I was physically disturbed and awed into stillness. "Holy shit,"…
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Represent! SFF Books with LGBTQIA Representation
In honor of Pride and to celebrate the diversity of gender and sexuality in the face of hate, here is a list of books with LGBTQIA characters. Most of these books are also intersectional…
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Three Spring Valentines
I'll say it: Genevieve Valentine is one of the best authors writing today. She has that spark, that je ne sais quoi that brings both reality and mythology to life on the page, even…
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The Wheel of Time TV Show (Will Never Happen)
Update as of 2020, I've never been happier to be wrong!-Steph The Wheel of Time turns, and TV adaptations come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth…
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Too Like the Lightning Review: Not the Best of All Worlds, but Damn Close
This is not a light book. Ada Palmer has rewritten the whole history of the modern world and the onrushing future, according to philosophies both new and old, but deeply held and profoundly discussed…
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Wolf in the Attic Review: A Wolf of One’s Own
I first encountered Paul Kearney in the most tragic way possible: I began his Sea Beggars trilogy. Oh, the trilogy itself isn't any more tragic than any other quality fantasy novel. The tragedy is…
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