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Book Review: Coyote Run, by Lilith Saintcrow

Cover of Coyote Run by Lilith Saintcrow, featuring a skinny woman holding two pistols and firing one, and a husky woman following through after hitting a skull-helmeted soldier with a wrench, also firing a pistol from the other hand.

Coyote Run is a standalone work. However, Saintcrow’s website calls it “the first Amazing Tale of Antifascist Action,” so I am hopeful that more stories will follow in this setting, especially if this novella does well, which it certainly deserves!

Book Review: CASUAL, by Koji A. Dae

Cover of Casual, by Koji A. Dae, in tones of brown and yellow, featuring a circuitboard with a stylized canine (a fox) embedded in the circuitry.

Dae does a great job of writing in Valya’s voice (first person, past tense) so that it’s easy to sympathize with the protagonist, without necessarily agreeing with her choices. She clearly cares deeply for “baby-girl” and is trying hard to make good plans and be a good mother-to-be; however, she’s had a hard life…

Book review: Soulstar, by C.L. Polk

Cover of Soulstar, by C.L. Polk (The Kingston Cycle, Volume 3), featuring two female ice skaters, one with long hair and a scarf, and one with close-cropped hair), against a cityscape with a rising or setting sun.

Even though I have a heavy reading schedule of new books for Skiffy and Fanty, it was absolutely worth the time to go back and read Soulstar.

Book review: The Black Orb, by Ewhan Kim

Cover of The Black Orb, by Ewhan Kim, translated by Sean Lin Halbert, featuring the back of a man with short black hair, with three red circles/spheres circling him down what looks like a an abstract checkerboard-design funnel.

This book isn’t for everyone, with its weird horror, violence of various kinds, a problematic main character, and mysteries that never really get resolved; however, it absolutely kept me interested and engaged, and presented a lot of ideas to consider.

Book review: Motheater, by Linda H. Codega

This book did not go where I was expecting with the main plot, but I loved the twists and turns that it took. People with the best of intentions can be blind to the harm they’re storing up for the future, and anyone can make promises that end up being derailed by events beyond their control…

Book Review: A Drop of Corruption, by Robert Jackson Bennett

Cover of A Drop of Corruption by Robert Jackson Bennett, featuring a white plant springing from a severed hand, with green succulent plants around it, and a different person's silhouette at each corner.

Anyone who enjoyed the first book should find A Drop of Corruption: An Ana and Din Mystery (Shadow of the Leviathan: Book 2) equally satisfying. I definitely advise against jumping into the series with the sequel, though; start with the first one.