Book Reviews: Ill Met and Well Met

Cover, Saber & Shadow, by S.M. Stirling and Shirley Meier

I have to give Leiber a pass on the fridging in Ill Met in Lankhmar. But I don’t have to enjoy it. 

One of the many reasons I still love Saber & Shadow is that its women don’t get fridged, because they are the protagonists. Their lovers don’t get fridged, either, because these women are into each other. It’s a joyful romp, albeit with a lot of tense moments, and a few traumatic memories for one character.

Book Review: Atoms Never Touch by micha cárdenas

Cover, Atoms Never Touch, by micha cárdenas

The latest title in this collection, Atoms Never Touch by multidisciplinary artist, poet, filmmaker, and professor micha cárdenas, takes these foundational concepts of activism and applies them through fiction to tell a story of relationships and autonomous agency.

Book Review: Even Though I Knew the End, by C.L. Polk

Cover of Even Though I Knew the End, by C.L. Polk

I adored C.L. Polk’s Even Though I Knew the End, a sapphic noir novella set in an urban fantasy version of 1941 Chicago. It opens strongly, unwraps the mystery as a relationship drama unfolds, and includes some breathtaking prose along the way.

Book Review: The Wise and the Wicked by Rebecca Podos

A picture of the cover of The Wise and the Wicked by Rebecca Podos

Rebecca Podos’s The Wise and the Wicked is a love letter to the struggles of a young girl as she tries to be herself in the middle of a dysfunctional family. Chock full of magic, sisterhood, and love, The Wise and the Wicked was a fast read that caught me from the very beginning. I […]

Book Review: WE SET THE DARK ON FIRE by Tehlor Kay Mejia

We Set the Dark on Fire, Tehlor Kay Mejia’s debut YA fantasy novel, is lush, lyrical, and sure to take the YA world by storm. Intensely descriptive and emotional, every page of this novel is a journey along a path of conspiracy and doubt, told through the eyes of a young woman who is desperate […]