2021 is apparently my year for New Zealand authors. Queen of Swords Press has happily enabled me by releasing Foxhunt by Rem Wigmore this month. This solarpunk novel shows a world in which humanity managed to halt its headlong rush into ecological oblivion. A greener, more sustainable path is enforced in part by the Order […]
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As I have mentioned previously, there has been some delightful fantasy romance coming out of New Zealand recently. One group of authors have banded together to produce Witchy Fiction, a range of light romance novellas about witches set in New Zealand. Of the titles I’ve read so far, my favourite has been Succulents and Spells […]
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The more I read, the more I want to read. Which is to say that Mt TBR keeps slowly creeping upward. It was an interesting mix of stuff this month. There’s fanfic alongside some heavier philosophy and memoir. A couple of Lodestar nominees. And I seem to be on a bit of an audio binge. […]
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April 2020 was a bit of a rough time. Australia reeled from devastating bushfires straight into pandemic. Understandably, many books released around then missed my radar entirely. One of those was Monstrous Heart. Fortunately, the recent release of the sequel caught my attention and drew me into this deliciously Gothic series. Arden Beacon comes from […]
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June was a slower month for reading. My reading obligations dragged out longer than I anticipated and I picked up a new craft project. Mt TBR Status Mt TBR @ 1 January 2021: 426Mt TBR @ 31 May 2021: 420Mt TBR @ 30 June 2021: 423 Items Read 79. Shuri: The Search for Black Panther, […]
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There has been some delightful fantasy romance coming out of New Zealand recently. Last year’s WorldCon brought The Lord of Stariel to my attention and I’m very glad it did. Hetta Valstar is not a respectable woman in the strictest sense. After all, she has magic: both illusion and pyromancy, the former of which she […]
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My To-Be-Read pile is starting to creep upward again, despite another excellent month of reading. May saw me run out of podcasts and consequently go on something of an audiobook binge. Mt TBR Status Mt TBR @ 1 January 2021: 426Mt TBR @ 30 April 2021: 416Mt TBR @ 31 May 2021: 420 Items Read […]
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The Course of Honour has been on my TBR pile for so long that it has been turned from fanfic into the published novel Winter’s Orbit. But despite the long wait and all the hype, it turned out to be not the story for me. Count Jainan’s home planet of Thea is barely able to […]
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Last month, I mentioned I was trying a new approach to my TBR, recommended by Sandstone. Safe to say it has been very effective. This was probably also helped by some improvements in my health. Mt TBR Status Mt TBR @ 1 January 2021: 426Mt TBR @ 31 March 2021: 425Mt TBR @ 30 April […]
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Arkady Martine’s novel, A Memory Called Empire, was a stunning debut, offering up a richly imagined world and digging into themes of identity and colonialism with sensitivity and nuance. A Desolation Called Peace meets the high bar set by its predecessor, developing the world and existing relationships with the same eye for nuance, as well […]
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