Or; Til Piggybacks On Sera’s review of Stars, Hide Your Fires by Jessica Mary Best My plan for this month was to review Stars, Hide Your Fires by Jessica Mary Best, a Cinderella story set in space where Cinderella is a pickpocket using the ball as cover to rob from the rich and give to the people who wantRead More
A Cozy Queer Mystery in Space: Nobody’s Baby by Olivia Waite Review
Considering my positive reviews of Olivia Waite’s historical romances and Malka Older’s sci-fi mystery novellas, it should be no surprise that I am enjoying Olivia Waite’s own sci-fi mystery novellas, the Dorothy Gentleman series. The second entry, Nobody’s Baby, cements this as a series of cozy mysteries exploring what it means to hold onto our memoriesRead More
Sapphics in Space: Moss’d in Space by Rebecca Thorne
Rebecca Thorne’s Moss’d in Space came out in late June and I read it on a whim. I’m not usually one for space sci-fi, but after a rewatch of CW’s Supergirl (2015) I was feeling the absence of yearning sapphics in space. And find them, I did. Moss’d in Space follows Torian as she spends her life savings onRead More
Live Out Your Marine Biologist Dreams with Tessa Yang’s The Jellyfish Problem
Tessa Yang’s debut novel The Jellyfish Problem officially released June 2nd, and the problem is that you haven’t read it yet. The novel follows Dr. Jo Ness–marine biologist, jellyfish enthusiast. After her best friend dies in an accident Jo herself feels responsible for, she drifts through life, unmoored and utterly alone. When her sort-of ex calls afterRead More
Escaping the Lab to Become a Barista: Steam by Shaenon K. Gerrity and Emily Holden
Steam is a quick, cute read about Ruby, a genetically engineered girl created to solve problems. She’s escaped the lab!—She’s on the loose!—She’s playing cupid in a coffee shop! Determined to make people happy, she learns about humans and strives to use her scientific mind and improbable aiming skills to improve their lives. If she encountersRead More
An Unbreakable Code: The Obake Code by Makana Yamamoto
I reviewed Makana Yamamoto’s debut cyberpunk novel, Hammajang Luck, during last year’s Trans Rights Readathon (which is currently ongoing until the end of March). I enjoyed the book’s high-stakes heist and dystopian politics, so I was excited to pick up the standalone sequel, The Obake Code, especially as it stars one of my favorite characters from theRead More
Sci-Fi Meets Poetry: This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone
Blue and Red are agents on opposing sides of an ongoing war through time travel. As they both find themselves tired of it all, they begin a clandestine correspondence, eventually falling in love. It’s a dangerous game they play, because if either one of their sides finds out, it could mean their deaths. Both takeRead More
Throughout Space and Time: Volatile Memory by Seth Haddon
Seth Haddon’s Volatile Memory follows scavenger Wylla as she the call of an alluring piece of tech—one that will make her a lot of money. Things are not as they seem: the tech is attached to a dead body, and once removed, it speaks to her. What follows leads our mask, HAWK, and Wylla to race acrossRead More
Hunger at the End of the World: Land of Milk and Honey by C Pam Zhang Review
Land of Milk and Honey is a literary science fiction novel that brings to life a dystopian world in which a smog has killed off food crops. The unnamed main character is a chef that is invited to take a job at a mountaintop colony in Italy, established by an enigmatic man and his visionary,Read More
Timey-Wimey Interdimensional Romance: Cosmic Love at the Multiverse Hair Salon by Anne Mare Review
In the past few years, it seems like multiverses have been all the rage in pop culture. It was natural, then, that it would be only a matter of time before we got one in sapphic romance. In comes Cosmic Love at the Multiverse Hair Salon (out June 3, 2025), the latest book by Anne Mare,Read More
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