(review by Leticia Lara) I’ve been wanting to read some of V.E. Schwab’s (or Victoria Schwab) works since I read this SoW review, but two years have gone by until the stars have so I could get my hands in This Savage Song, a YA novel by this author. It is important to emphasize the fact that … More This Savage Song by V E Schwab
(reviewed by Aliette de Bodard) Following on from the events in AN ACCIDENT OF STARS, a kickass sequel that upends the worlds of Veksh/Kena and others and touches on abuse, resilience, and heroism. The ensemble cast is as strong as ever (and I still ❤ the social structure of Veksh) and delightfully diverse. The portal … More A Tyranny of Queens
(reviewed by Aliette de Bodard) I had this on my TBR pile for ages and didn’t get around to it–and I wish I had earlier, because it’s quite lovely. Saffron, a modern-day Australian girl, gets swept up in the world of Kena, and finds herself caught in the middle of a power struggle. The main … More An Accident of Stars, Foz Meadows
Atmospheric Lovecraftian noir with a really tremendous eye for detail, which packs a lot of (horrible) content in a very slim volume. The one thing for which I deducted one star was that it follows a lot of noir in that the narrator is aggressively misogynistic–it’s mostly the narrator, though I wished that the two … More Hammers on Bone by Cassandra Khaw
(reviewed by Aliette de Bodard) In the aftermath of the Spire’s Fall, the city of bone stands on the verge of tearing itself apart, the citizens desperate to find someone to blame. Nat, the son of a man who was thrown down for defying the Spire, is now a councilman, but his political mentor appears … More Cloudbound, by Fran Wilde
(reviewed by Aliette de Bodard) I loved this book. In Kolkata, the narrator Alok, a middle aged professor at university, meets a man who professes to be half-werewolf, part of a population of shape-shifters that hunts down and kills humans, devouring both their bodies and their memories. The man gives the narrator a manuscript to … More The Devourers, by Indra Das
(review by Leticia Lara) I’m fascinated reading the works published by Claire North, a writer who is creating a good name (or a good pseudonym) in the community of science fiction. In this novel, the author uses a not overly original device (the recent Tao saga by Wes Chu does the same), but she gives … More Touch by Claire North
(reviewed by Aliette de Bodard) Pearl is an angel, a being with wings that only exist in another dimension. She works for the Resistance–a mysterious organisation that promotes the spread of kindness among humans. As she returns from one of her missions, she recognises a passenger: he’s the man who stranded her here, away from her home. … More Occupy Me by Tricia Sullivan
(reviewed by Leticia Lara) After the good impression I got reading The Serpent I did not hesitate a second to move to the second installment of Claire North’s Gamehouse series entitled The Thief. This time the stakes are years of life with memories, gambled in a game of hide and seek. Although this game may … More The Thief by Claire North
(reviewed by Leticia Lara) Recently in a conversation on twitter I asked for recommendations of other readers, and they convinced me to read Claire North, an author who is enthralling me. A novella is a good way to approach an author, since the length of the work permits to read it fairly quick to get … More The Serpent by Claire North
Those Who Run With Wolves 