Song of Stars is an F/F fantasy romance with childhood friends to rivals to lovers. If you were ever in band, competitive sports, debate club, or anything else where you were judged harshly as a kid/young adult, this book is for you! It’s spicy but sweet, prickly but affectionate.
Fantasy
Review – The Unbroken [Magic of the Lost #1]
Messy infuriating disaster sapphics
destabilising colonialism
in a North African-inspired setting
Review – The Masquerade Series 1-3 [Baru Cormorant]
This series goes from buying you dinner where you exchange sexually charged barbs but then escalates to surgically removing and filleting your heart.Â
The end of the third book puts you back together and cracks terrible and wonderful jokes whilst it sutures up the numerous incision points it’s made in your body.Â
Review – The Monster Baru Cormorant
The Masquerade Series, Book 2 by Seth Dickinson Read this book if you want to suffer This book is like 170k words long, a bunch of stuff happens in it, there’s at least 3 povs that I can remember, but mostly it felt like a game of drawn-out grief where every new page might uncover […]
Review – The Traitor Baru Cormorant
The Masquerade Series, Book 1 by Seth Dickinson A truly grimdark political anti-imperialist epic fantasywith a sapphic protagonist wielding fiscal policy as her superpower The most brutally calculating sapphic heroine I’ve ever met. I LOVED her. Also the closest I’ve seen to a MC personifying my day job. Personally I found her blunt use of […]
Review – Gideon the Ninth
I experienced this book as a revelation. Before you assume that’s hyperbole, the only other books I’ve ever read where I felt my life had changed in some subtle, indefinable way—that the me before reading was not the same person afterward–were the Gormenghast books by Mervyn Peake, which I first read in my teens; a […]