“It was a weapon… Now, it’s a relic. A decoration. Something from before.” Y’all. Travis Baldree’s Legends & Lattes (Tor 2022) is so freaking adorable I can hardly stand it. Like most cozies, it’s an extremely quick read. Unlike most cozies, it’s high fantasy. The novel opens with Viv, an orc, in her last battle. Continue reading “LEGENDS & LATTES – Travis Baldree”
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AFTER SAPPHO – Selby Wynn Schwartz
“Those were the stories we were given. When we were children, we learned what happened to girls in fables: eaten, married, lost. Then came our bouts of classical education, imparting to us the fates of women in ancient literature: betrayed, raped, cast out, driven mad in tongueless grief.” My Booker 2022 longlist reading journey isContinue reading “AFTER SAPPHO – Selby Wynn Schwartz”
PLAIN BAD HEROINES – Emily M. Danforth
I don’t DNF (Do/Did Not Finish) books for assorted reasons. (I can count on one hand the number of books I’ve abandoned after starting, and they still haunt me.) A few hundred pages into Emily M. Danforth’s Plain Bad Heroines (Harper Collins 2020), I wanted to stop. I had such high hopes for this sapphicContinue reading “PLAIN BAD HEROINES – Emily M. Danforth”
RADIANT FUGITIVES – Nawaaz Ahmed
“My mother’s name is Seema. Which means face, something of her I will never see, or frontier, something I must leave behind.” I wasn’t quite sure what to expect with Nawaaz Ahmed’s debut novel Radiant Fugitives (Counterpoint Press, 2021). I’d read a blurb months before publication in a failed attempt to get an advanced copy,Continue reading “RADIANT FUGITIVES – Nawaaz Ahmed”
A Girl Named Tommi 