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The Infinite Noise: A delightfully cute teen drama

The Infinite Noise by Lauren Shippen THE BRIGHT SESSIONS is a trilogy of spinoff novels set in the world of the podcast of the same name, both media written by Lauren Shippen. I am generally a fiction podcast fan, so when the third book in the trilogy – Some Faraway Place – hit my radar, […]

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Ninth House: Black magic in Yale’s secret societies

Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo Galaxy “Alex” Stern (the name courtesy of her hippie mother) seems an obvious misfit at prestigious Yale University. Wealth, athletic talent and academic stardom are nowhere to be found in Alex’s life. Instead she’s a high school dropout with a history of dead-end jobs and drug use, and the survivor […]

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The Bone Ships: Slow start, spectacular end

The Bone Ships by R.J. Barker Joron Twiner, an ineffective drunkard with low self-esteem, is the shipwife (captain, basically) of Tide Child, a bone ship made of the bones of a supposedly extinct species of sea dragons. When we meet Joron, he’s in port, sleeping off the booze, when a fierce woman named Lucky Meas […]

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Gideon the Ninth: Macabre & original

Reposting to include Tim’s new review. Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir Necromancers and their sword-fighting cavaliers star in Gideon the Ninth (2019), Tamsyn Muir’s radically original debut novel, which has been nominated for the 2019 Nebula Award. This science fantasy novel, steeped in an atmosphere of decay and decrepitude, is a mix of space […]

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The Beautiful: A vampire novel set in New Orleans

The Beautiful by Renée Ahdieh It’s 1872 and Celine Rousseau, who’s seventeen years old, has just arrived in New Orleans with several other girls who will work in a convent until they can make matches with respectable young men in the city. Celine is from Paris, where she made gowns for the upper class. She […]

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Silver in the Wood: A hopeful tale about renewal

Silver in the Wood by Emily Tesh Silver in the Wood (2019) is an enchanting novella by Emily Tesh, who is a finalist for the 2020 Astounding Award. It is the first in Tesh’s GREENHOLLOW DUOLOGY; the sequel, Drowned Country, will be released in August. Tobias has lived alone for a long time. He’s a […]

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War Girls: War is hell

War Girls by Tochi Onyebuchi Onyii is a battle-hardened soldier, weary of war. She’s 15. Her adopted sister, Ify, is even younger and a budding tech genius. The two live in a rebel compound of Biafran girls, hidden by a signal dampener from the Nigerian government. Tochi Onyebuchi gives the reader a little quiet time […]

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Ancestral Night: Asks interesting and relevant questions

Ancestral Night by Elizabeth Bear Haimey Dz grew up in an all-female community that she thinks of as a cult. After a bad experience involving a girlfriend, Haimey leaves her home, joins the Synarche, finds a business partner, has her body adjusted a bit (has her feet turned into another pair of hands), and starts […]

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Strange Love: Light-hearted alien romance

Strange Love by Ann Aguirre “This whole alien abduction thing isn’t the worst thing that has ever happened to me.” Ann Aguirre’s Strange Love (2019) isn’t the type of book I normally read, so keep that in mind. I picked it up because the publisher of the audiobook, Tantor Media, offered me a review copy […]

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The Line Between: Apocalyptic thrills and doomsday cult chills

The Line Between by Tosca Lee The Line Between (2019) is a chilling and believable take on what happens when a long-extinct disease emerges from the frozen tundra in Alaska. Apparently free-range hogs will eat almost anything, including a disease-infested caribou carcass exposed by the melting permafrost (nod to global warming here). The prion-based disease […]

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Steel Crow Saga: A big old basket of wild, zany fun

Steel Crow Saga by Paul Krueger Paul Krueger’s first book, Last Call at the Nightshade Lounge, was a quirky, fun urban fantasy in which magical bartenders saved Chicago from primordial evil. Based on that, I was eager to read his 2019 novel Steel Crow Saga. After I pre-ordered it, I began to read, on Twitter […]

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Lies of Descent: Solidly written but too familiar

Lies of Descent by Troy Carrol Bucher Troy Carrol Bucher’s Lies of Descent (2019) is the first book in a new trilogy, FALLEN GOD’S WAR, set in a world of magic, fallen gods, clashing cultures, and internal conflict within cultures. While the writing is solid enough, and Bucher offers up a few unexpected turns, the […]

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Enchantée: An addictive tale of addiction

Enchantée by Gita Trelease Enchantée (2019) is a young adult historical fantasy set in Paris, just before the French Revolution. Camille is a teenage girl whose family was ravaged by smallpox a few months past. Both of Camille’s parents died, her younger sister Sophie is still frail, and their brother Alain has descended into drink […]

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