It took a moment for her rage to clear enough for the words to actually register: byt’ uveren. A beat later, she realized why that looked so strange, apart from words having no business on the back of a turtle. They were written in Russian. Be sure. In Seanan McGuire’s Wayward Children series there are
“Angels,” I’d told Alizar when I was eight and freshly appalled to discover I was his saint, “are assholes!” And always have been, Ish, said Alizar. You have no idea. I had the idea, just from looking at the titles, that C.S.E. Cooney’s 2023 novel The Twice-Drowned Saint was going to be similar to her
T. Kingfisher’s latest book is a Regency(ish)-era fantasy in a world of stately mansions, butlers and ladies maids, hunting parties and society balls, best-selling books on how to have impeccable manners and, yes, magic. But not much magic, at least according to the general populace. Sure, there are the occasional stories about someone being a
The world is full of rattlesnakes. Sometimes you step on them and they don’t bite. Sometimes you step over them and they bite anyway. Stephen King has a new collection of short stories! Which he released last May. I probably should have gotten to this in October, but actually this feels less like a Halloween
Yes, I know we never posted a review of Book 2 of Greg Rucka’s Lazarus graphic novel series. It’s an excellent book, you really should read it, but we can skip it for the purposes of Book 3, because it focuses on one of the many desperately poor families in this dystopian future, with the
Yes, yes, of course Decibel Jones and the Absolute Zeroes saved the world. But what have they done for us lately? It’s New Year’s Eve! Time for one more quick review of a 2024 book (gotta pad those review numbers y’know). And what a book. The first book in this series, Space Opera, was a
Quick! There’s still time to buy Stjepan Šejić’s Fine Print – Volume 2 for someone as a Christmas present! Or maybe for yourself. Have you read this yet? Because you absolutely need to read this series if you love tales of love and sex wrapped up in mythology and glorious artwork. Volume 1 concluded by
We’re getting closer to Halloween, smack in the middle of Spooky season, time for a Spooky book! The original plan was to read Stephen King’s latest, but then I found out that Laird Barron – cosmic horror writer extraordinaire – just released his fifth short-story collection. Stephen King can wait, this one’s MINE. I’ve been
It was the first time that January really understood that normal life was over. I’m a little behind on this one, but only because I always start reading a new Natasha Pulley novel when on a big family vacation, so I had to wait a bit to get the perfect timing for our trip to