Tag: contemporary fantasy

  • A Deadly Education & Scholomance by Naomi Novik

    A Deadly Education & Scholomance by Naomi Novik

    Review of A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik and the rest of the Scholomance trilogy, including The Last Graduate and The Golden Enclave. Why would you send your children to a magic school where multiple students die every single year? Where as many as a fourth of the students die? That’s the question that sparked…

  • Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire

    Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire

    Review of Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire. What happens when the children come home from their portal fantasy adventure? What happens when they are trapped in the normal world?

  • The Master Conjurer

    The Master Conjurer

    Review of the short story The Master Conjurer by Charlie Jane Anders. The Master Conjurer was first published in Lightspeed Magazine.

  • Selkie Stories Are for Losers

    Selkie Stories Are for Losers

    Selkie Stories Are for Losers by Sofia Samatar. The story was originally published in Strange Horizons and was nominated for the 2014 Hugo Award for Best Short Story, the 2014 Nebula Award for Best Short Story among other awards. My review from 2014 of Selkie Stories Are for Losers by Sofia Samatar I liked the story a lot.…