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 […]
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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 […]