Book Review: Operation Bounce House, by Matt Dinniman
Operation Bounce House is more grounded and more thoughtful than Dungeon Crawler Carl, but just as exciting.
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Book Review: To Ride a Rising Storm, by Moniquill Blackgoose
I’m fascinated to see where this series will go, especially because of how it’s already subverted my expectations.
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Book review: Harmattan Season, by Tochi Onyebuchi
Even the most surreal fantastic elements of the book end up being employed in ways that eventually make some sense. But despite some familiar elements, their combination and development is unique and engaging. I wouldn’t quite call Harmattan Season an easy read, but it absolutely kept me interested throughout, and I was entirely satisfied with the ending.
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Book review: Blood of the Old Kings, by Sung-il Kim
At its heart, Blood of the Old Kings is a story about Empire, reactions and resistance to it. Our three protagonists are all in their own way taking up the mantle of resistance to that Empire.
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Book Review: INVERSION by Aric McBay
Though relatively slim compared to most space operas at only 240 small-sized pages, Inversion packs a narrative punch along with rich world building and engaging thematic threads of ecology, collectivism, and resistant to militaristic colonization.
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BOOK REVIEW: SORDIDEZ BY E.G. CONDÉ
Within these two apocalyptic settings where all four of the Horsemen of Revelation ride, the stories of three protagonists intertwine via multiple points of views and narrative voices (first- and third-person). In both Puerto Rico and in the Yucatán, these characters face their dystopic present to envision positive Indigenous-led futures enacted by purposeful decolonization and embrace of their ancestral ways.