What I'm Reading: Master of Poisons
This book has a lot going on. At its core it's a fantasy about people dealing with political and environmental catastrophe.
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What I'm Reading: The Warm Hands of Ghosts
I found The Warm Hands of Ghosts through the Fantastic Strangelings Book Club, and it was such a wonderful surprise of a novel. This book by Katherine Arden was a ghost story, and a fairy tale, and a historical novel about the terrors of war all rolled into one.
What I'm Reading: The Dead Take the A Train
This is not an unbiased review in that I'm a huge fan of Cassandra Khaw. This novel fit neatly into their body of work.
The Dead Take the A Train was jointly written by Khaw and Richard Kadrey. If you don't enjoy gore and viscera, this
What I'm Reading: The Lies of the Ajungo
I received The Lies of the Ajungo by Moses Ose Utomi in my book bag at World Fantasy last year, and what a gift. This slim novella was a beautiful, moving story.
What I'm Reading: The Water Outlaws
I'd heard a lot of good things about The Water Outlaws, by S. L. Huang. It was the last book I started in 2023 and the first book I finished in 2024.
I'm not always the biggest fan of action-packed books, but Huang manages to write
What I'm Reading: The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport
This book was a lot more fun than I was expecting. There are monkey antics and bots with tender feelings and a space adventurer/super hero walking the streets.