The cover of Makana Yamamoto’s (they/she/he) Hammajang Luck boldly proclaims its niche as “Sci-fi Heist.” Yamamoto further delineates their novel as a “cyberpunk lesbian space heist,” so it’s safe to say that I was all the way intrigued. The first page yanked me in with the phrase, “Mother just grounded me for war crimes.” One unexpected snort-laughRead More
The Most Sapphic of Romance Novels: Cosmic Love at the Multiverse Hair Salon by Annie Mare Review
When Tressa Fay gets a text from a wrong number, it’s not long before they’re flirting. In fact, they decide to meet up that night. But when she arrives at the bar, Tressa Fay is disappointed to realize the cute engineer is not there, despite Meryl’s continual texts insisting she is. Soon, Tressa Fay learnsRead More
Never Fade Away: The Old Guard Immortal Edition Volume 1 Review
It’s always a good time to re-read a Greg Rucka graphic novel, in my opinion… and to prep for the release of the film adaptation starring Charlize Theron? That may just be the best time of all. If you are on this site but have not yet watched The Old Guard, which stars Theron asRead More
Bisexual Latina Romantasy: Blood & Brujas by Mikayla D. Hornedo
Dayanara, daughter of the Acna, the witch’s feared leader, is a weapon for her mother’s vicious vendettas. To end an ongoing war between the witches and the vampires, her mother tricks her into marrying the prince of the vampires, Kaizer. Dayanara has to play a political game to save her clan, but still find aRead More
Social Bureaucracy as Utopia Building: Quill & Still by Aaron Sofaer Review
To read Quill & Still by Aaron Sofaer (she/her) is to discover a revolution fought not with swords or spells, but with intake forms and breakfast routines—a village where every stone house stands by mutual agreement (and where the enchanted toilets probably have union representation). Whatever Sophie expected, what she gets is smaller and stranger:Read More
A Fresh Take on Magic Schools: The Incandescent by Emily Tesh
In what has quickly become one of my top novels of the year, Emily Tesh crafts a unique fantasy world full of violence, intensity, and intrigue in The Incandescent (Tor 2025). In Tesh’s newest novel, which has been compared to fiction by Naomi Novik and Emily Danforth, Doctor Walden is the Director of Magic at Chetwood Academy—a schoolRead 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
Cozy Meets Eldritch Horror in Direct Descendant by Tanya Huff
A force to be reckoned with, Tanya Huff has been writing books for nearly forty years. I grew up among her worlds, inhaling words and dreaming of places that would welcome me one day. I still have tattered copies of No Quarter (1996) and Summon the Keeper (1998) on my bookshelves. So, it’s not much of a surprise thatRead More
An Inverse Handmaid’s Tale: Eleven Percent by Maren Uthaug Review
Eleven Percent has been marketed as an “inverse Handmaid’s Tale”—a world where women are in control and only 11% of men remain (kept under lock and key for reproduction and such). But while that pitch might catch your attention, what Maren Uthaug actually delivers is a much more unsettling and layered exploration of power, gender,Read More
Not-So-Dark Academia: The Incandescent by Emily Tesh
I was very excited to get an ARC for The Incandescent by Emily Tesh, because Some Desperate Glory was one of my top books of 2023. Magical boarding school is a jump from space dystopia redemption arc, but Emily Tesh continues not to disappoint. The Incandescent is a zippy, fresh perspective of a boarding school story that sucked me from the beginningRead More
- 1
- 2
- 3
- …
- 42
- Next Page »