The cover blurb from Annalee Newitz calls this a “queer-mystical fairy tale” and what a great representation that is. A big warm blanket of a queer fairy tale. Yes there’s darkness and bones and ghosts and flesh eating flies like in any good fairy tale, but there’s hope and growth too. Tachyon, I hope you consider publishing a complete birdverse anthology someday, R. B.’s work belongs in a great gilt-edged tome.
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I read a lot of SFF and horror, leaning toward the weird, and I adore a good translation (to English) and small press book. I’m queer and I like to read books about queer people and by queer and otherwise marginalized authors. I tend to avoid things that are marketed strongly as YA.
I’m a former bookseller and I’ve never been able to let go on being way too aware of what’s coming out, so my tbr list is a very active living document (and being realistic, highly aspirational).
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41% complete! Leaf 🍂 has read 31 of 75 books.
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Leaf 🍂 reviewed Four Profound Weaves by R. B. Lemberg
Leaf 🍂 reviewed Daughter of Mystery by Heather Rose Jones
Review of 'Daughter of Mystery' on 'Storygraph'
I can see how someone who thought this was a romance novel due to the cover and marketing might be disappointed. It has a romance! But it’s really more a very dense and beautifully written novel full of the minutiae of estate management and like, 18th/19th century European court intrigue and inheritance law with some magic. (Fortunately I find these things fascinating and I’ve now ordered the rest of the series)
Leaf 🍂 reviewed Flyaway by Ellen Datlow
Leaf 🍂 reviewed Book of X by Sarah Rose Etter
Review of 'Book of X' on 'Storygraph'
1 star
That’s a big meh from me.
Started out interesting, but never actually made good on any of its promises, and just got increasingly twee in its delivery.
Also, this is on me a little, but all the verbiage on the jacket about “women’s bodies” should’ve given me a hint about how terfish it was going to read like. Not giving this bullshit a pass anymore.
Leaf 🍂 reviewed Pet by Akwaeke Emezi
Leaf 🍂 reviewed Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Leaf 🍂 reviewed Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
Review of 'Piranesi' on 'Storygraph'
This book was near perfect?? Like it was written for the exact strange set of tropes and settings I’m most in love with?? Anyway, fanatic book, equals or surpasses Strange & Norrell amazingly, will go on my reread shelf.
Leaf 🍂 reviewed The Steerswoman by Rosemary Kirstein
Review of 'The Steerswoman' on 'Storygraph'
Who told me about this book? I don’t remember, but it’s a hidden gem (ha!) and deserves more recognition. Thrilled to hear the final two books are still being written, because I foresee wanting them badly when I finish these four.
Leaf 🍂 reviewed Unnatural Magic by C. M. Waggoner
Leaf 🍂 reviewed The Apple-Tree Throne by Premee Mohamed
Leaf 🍂 reviewed In the House in the Dark of the Woods by Laird Hunt
Leaf 🍂 reviewed Haunting of Tram Car 015 by P. Djèlà Clark
Review of 'Haunting of Tram Car 015' on 'Storygraph'
This was extremely fun. I’d absolutely read more adventures of Hamad and Onsi (and Fatma!!) and the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments, and Supernatural Entities.