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Book Review: The Drowning Eyes by Emily Foster
I expected to love The Drowning Eyes, but I’m sad to say I only liked it. The gorgeous cover art and the book’s description had me very excited about it, but it just wasn’t quite what I expected. In...
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Book Review: Truthwitch by Susan Dennard
Whew! Truthwitch is an absolutely exhausting, if exhilarating, read. There’s an enormous amount of stuff going on in this book, and I kind of loved it, but the problem with doing lots of things in a...
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Book Review – Monstrous Little Voices: New Tales from Shakespeare’s Fantasy...
Monstrous Little Voices is a collection of five short novellas that take place within a fantasy world based upon the works of William Shakespeare, and it’s about 80% brilliant, which is pretty good for...
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Book Review: Bryony and Roses by T. Kingfisher
As is often the case with popular fairy tales, there’s very little new story to be wrung out of “Beauty and the Beast” these days, so I was a little skeptical of Bryony and Roses. Even after reading...
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Book Review: The Seventh Bride by T. Kingfisher
The Seventh Bride is, loosely, a retelling of “Bluebeard,” which is a nice change from the more common fairy tale retellings that populate most shelves. I don’t see “Bluebeard” pop up that often in the...
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Book Review: All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders
All the Birds in the Sky, on its surface, is a story about two weirdos who come of age and fall in love during an apocalypse. It’s a story infused with magic, from the first time we see Patricia talk...
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Book Review: Bitch Planet, Volume 1, Extraordinary Machine
I can’t believe I waited so long to read this comic. Like, I’m truly appalled at myself, and now that I’ve read the first five issues, I can’t even remember why I hadn’t been that interested. Bitch...
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Book Review: A Song for No Man’s Land by Andy Remic
A Song for No Man’s Land is a dull, depressing slog of a novella that never seems to figure out what it wants to say. For all of its short length, it seems to drag on interminably before finally...
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Book Review: Planetfall by Emma Newman
Planetfall is a brilliant portrait of a character and a community both in crises and a meditation on the ways in which the community and the individual are intertwined. It’s a gorgeously realized...
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Book Review: ODY-C Volume 1 by Matt Fraction and Christian Ward
ODY-C is an ambitious, psychedelic epic fantasy that needs to be completely finished and printed into one enormous, beautiful book so I can just read it all in one sitting. It’s a futuristic,...
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Book Review: Daughter of Destiny by Nicole Evelina
I’ve always found it a little sad that there isn’t more Arthurian literature written about Guinevere, so I was excited when I saw this self-pubbed title pop up on NetGalley and had high hopes that it...
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Book Review: The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle
The Ballad of Black Tom opens with a dedication, “For H.P. Lovecraft, with all my conflicted feelings,” which is a handy summary of how many, if not most, modern readers feel about Lovecraft. Victor...
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Book Review: The Devil You Know by K.J. Parker
Alright, so I loved this book, but I kind of hate that I did because it’s actually, objectively, a lot of things that I hate. Mostly, The Devil You Know is just not nearly as clever an idea as the...
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Book Review: Genrenauts #2, The Absconded Ambassador by Michael R. Underwood
When I read the first of Michael R. Underwood’s new Genrenauts series, I compared it to the pilot of a television show—it was a solid introduction to the series, but it had a lot of pilot episode...
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Book Review – Barsk: The Elephants’ Graveyard by Lawrence M. Schoen
Lawrence M. Schoen’s Barsk: The Elephants’ Graveyard is a wonderfully original masterpiece of a novel, and I am so glad that I got to it in time for Hugo Award nominations. Somehow, I’d thought it was...
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Book Review: Archivist Wasp by Nicole Kornher-Stace
Archivist Wasp is a strange and beautiful story that still managed to be somewhat disappointing to me. I liked it quite a bit, but I didn’t love it the way I thought I would and I’m not sure exactly...
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Book Review: Pieces of Hate by Tim Lebbon
Pieces of Hate is, technically, an okay book. However, it’s exactly the sort of thing that I normally try to avoid like the plague because I kind of hate it. It’s one of the better examples of its kind...
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Let’s Read! Up and Coming: Stories by the 2016 Campbell-Eligible Authors
This year, Bad Menagerie is offering a pretty unprecedented resource for those of us who are nominating for and voting on the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer that will be presented at...
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Let’s Read! Up and Coming: Part 1
Let’s get this party started, right at the beginning of the alphabet. I thought about trying to read these in a more random order or about starting with the authors I already know and like, but the...
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Let’s Read! Up and Coming: Part 2
Another day, another ten authors who are totally new to me. I’m a little exhausted with all the reading—I don’t think I’ve crammed like this since high school, but I am loving this project so far. I...
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