Book reviews
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City of Stairs by Robert Jackson Bennett
Review of City of Stairs by Robert Jackson Bennett. City of Stairs a fantasy spy thriller about magic, history and colonialism. Surprisingly funny and entertaining with great worldbuilding and wonderful characters.
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Dark Currents by Jacqueline Carey
Review of Dark Currents by Jacqueline Carey. A urban fantasy with interesting characters and a heroine who isn’t all powerful, but have to ask for help and lean on the people around her.
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Jane Yellowrock series
Review of Black Arts and Broken Soul by Faith Hunter which are part of the Jane Yellowrock series. A very strong urban fantasy series about Jane Yellowrock a skinwalker of Cherokee descent who works for the vampires of New Orleans taking down rough vampires, who are trying to police them self. The series is action…
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Moon Called & Blood Bound
Review of Moon Called & Blood Bound by Patricia Briggs in the Mercy Thompson Series. The series is solid urban fantasy with great characters.
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The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
Review of the science fiction classic The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin. Famously it is one the first novel to use the same pronouns for everyone in English. It has strong worldbuilding surrounding gender and sexuality as well as alien biology.
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Love and Romanpunk by Tansy Rayner Roberts
Review of the short story collection Love and Romanpunk by Tansy Rayner Roberts. The stories tells the speculative history of Julia Agrippina family and their monster hunting.
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The Creative Fire by Brenda Cooper
Review of The Creative Fire by Brenda Cooper and The Diamond Deep, the second book in the Ruby’s Song duology. Creative Fire is a young adult generation ship story about oppression and resistance.
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The Velveteen vs. series by Seanan McGuire
Review of the Velveteen vs. series by Seanan McGuire. A funny and clever look at the superhero genre and how it treach both child and female heros. If you enjoyed The Boys, but wish it was a bit lighter in tone, this is the perfect read.
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The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison
Review of The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison. A wonderful steampunk fantasy filled with court politics, amazing characters and hope. It is very much a fish out of water story and Maia struggles to find his feet in his new position of power. If you have ever struggled with imposter syndrome, then you can definitely…
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Blood Price by Tanya Huff
Review of Blood Price by Tanya Huff one of the oldest examples of urban fantasy that is recognizable as such. There are so many of the core elements of urban fantasy present in this 1991 take on the genre including a vampire romance.