Lobizona, Romina Garber’s Spanglish love letter to Harry Potter, was one of my biggest (pleasant) surprises of the year. I likely would have never read it if not for Fantasy Bingo, and I liked it well enough to rate it ahead of two-thirds of the Lodestar Award finalists. Needless to say, I was very excited… Continue reading Fantasy Novel Review: Cazadora by Romina Garber
I read Ender’s Game about ten years ago and thought that it was absolutely fantastic—it nailed the academy setting, had fictional competition that actually made sense (infamously no guarantee in sci-fi/fantasy), and had a whole lot of depth to boot. But I felt it ended so well that I didn’t want to risk spoiling it… Continue reading Sci-fi Novel Review: Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card
At long last, I’ve made it to Seanan McGuire’s Hugo Finalist. Well, this year’s Hugo Finalist. For Best Novella. Look, McGuire gets nominated a lot. At any rate, Come Tumbling Down, the fifth installment in the Wayward Children series, garnered a Best Novella nomination, and I figured I’d try to give myself the best chance… Continue reading Fantasy Novella Review: Come Tumbling Down by Seanan McGuire
Mary Robinette Kowal won a Hugo in 2019 with the excellent The Calculating Stars, an alternate history space race with plenty of hypercompetent women pressing against social prejudice (it spends more time on gender than race, but I’d recommend this for fans of Hidden Figures). But The Calculating Stars was itself a prequel to her… Continue reading Sci-fi Novel Review: The Relentless Moon by Mary Robinette Kowal
This review is based on an eARC (Advance Reader Copy) provided by the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. The Last Graduate will be released on September 28, 2021. Naomi Novik’s A Deadly Education may not have been the best book I read last year, but the action-packed dark magic school novel… Continue reading Fantasy Novel Review: The Last Graduate by Naomi Novik
