Book reviews
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Indexing by Seanan McGuire
Review of Indexing by Seanan McGuire. Indexing is a book about stories, the stories that make up our life and the stories that define our identity. It is also very much a meta-fictional story, because it is a story about fairy tales. Fairy tales trying to control the stories of our world no less.
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Thirteenth Child by Patricia C. Wrede
Review of Thirteenth Child by Patricia C. Wrede. It’s a fantasy novel set in an alternative version of North America during the ‘Go West’ era. It is a frontier fantasy that turns North American into a magical land filled with strange supernatural creatures. The setting is quite problematic, so know this going in.
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The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle
Review of The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle. The Last Unicorn is an young adult fantasy classic that plays with fairytale story structure, metafictional elements and is quite weird and melancholy
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Battle Magic by Tamora Pierce
Review of Battle Magic by Tamora Pierce, The Circle Reforged book 4. In Battle Magic a visit to the empirical palace turns into a gilded cage. Battle Magic is the darkest of Tamora Pierce’s young adult novels.
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My Life as a White Trash Zombie
Review of My Life as a White Trash Zombie by Diana Rowland. Zombies meet humorous urban fantasy in My Life as a White Trash Zombie. Unlike most urban fantasy our protagonist Angel Crawford is not hyper-competent, but rather a bit of a looser. She really do not have her shit together.
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Kaleidoscope
Review of the short story anthology Kaleidoscope edited by Julia Rios & Alisa Krasnostein. Kaleidoscope hopeful YA science fiction and fantasy with diverse leads. The teenagers are queer, disabled, neurodiverse, PoC etc.