***Content warnings for forced servitude, slavery, war and death of a parent.*** Science fiction for me has always been the language of hope and caution. The structure and basis of the genre is essentially what could happen with the scientific possibilities available to us at that time. And that can mean something as hopeful as…
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Review: The Female Man by Joanna Russ
I recently shared my list of 30 books that I plan to read the year I turn 30 (this year). The Female Man is the first book off that list that I have chosen to read for the challenge. Heralded as a landmark piece of feminist science fiction, this book has been on and off…
Review: Stormsong by C.L Polk
***Content warnings for incarceration, war, mentions of torture, forced institutionalization, PTSD and homophobia*** Mild spoliers possible for book one, Witchmark. A month in the making but I finally have continued this series! When I finished Witchmark I never stopped thinking about the book all that week. And getting to this is something I wanted to…
Review: Rivers of London:Deadly Ever After by Ben Aaronovitch, Celeste Bronfmanm, Andrew Cartmel& José María Beroy
I’ve gone on at length about my love for the Rivers of London series. It still remains to be my favourite ongoing fantasy series and one of my main focuses in my reading last year was to finally be up to date on the books. Now I’m tackling the comics and graphic novels. And Deadly…
Review: Ithaca by Claire North
**Content warnings for rape, sexual assault, war, famine and gore.** This is quite a fun mark for my time here on the bookish internet. I started this blog and my bookstagram roughly within a few months of each other. And one of my first books I posted on the latter was my thoughts on The…
Review: Priest of Crowns by Peter McLean
**Content warnings for graphic torture, accounts of sexual assault, physical assault, drugging, forced sedation, addiction, paedophilia, chattel slavery, cannibalism, self immolation, homophobia, sexism, PTSD and alcoholism.** Possible spoilers for book one and two in the series. Well now. Here we are. The end of the line. It’s been a while since I started a series and completed it all…
Mini Review: Undercover by Tamsyn Muir
It’s not my norm to review a single short story on the blog, but there are exceptions to be made. I’m an absolute down to clown for anything Tamsyn Muir writes. So a new short story where it’s a guard and their charge with some strange tension and more genre mashing is not going without…
Review: Loki by Melvin Burgess
***Content warnings for death, torture, murder, homophobia, transphobia, rape, dismemberment, bestiality (kind of?) and blood*** I love Norse myths. This year I’ve definitely been making an effort to seek retellings of these out. One of my favourites from this year so far, The Witch’s Heart, follows Angrboda who rarely gets an outing despite being the…
Review: What Moves the Dead by T.Kingfisher
***Content warnings body horror, death of a parent and siblings, misgendering, mentions of war, famine and PTSD*** Think it’s safe to call T.Kingfisher one of my auto buy authors now. I literally bought this and read it in the same week. That is fairly unheard of when one has shelves as full as mine. But…
Review: A Dowry of Blood by S.T Gibson (2022 pub)
**Content warnings from authors website; Emotional, verbal & physical intimate partner abuse and gaslighting, Sexual assault mentioned, Depression & mania, Self-harm, Alcohol consumption, Drug use mentioned, Blood & gore depiction and body horror, Drowning mentioned, Murder, War themes, Famine and plague** Eagle eyed readers (or my partner who never stopped hearing about it) will remember…
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