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Went looking for reviews and supposedly it's fantastic and funny, hilarious even. The closest i can find to humour is ungenerous digs at various characters. There's an ugly gruesome murder. There's maybe some profundity in the end, though perhaps not particularly original. by the time I got there I was tired from the details, so many details, many disjointed. If there was symbolism connecting them it's beyond me, other than a surreal nightmare. Images of grief, yes, The zombie apocalypse as ungenerous comedy horror as a metaphor for grief? I suppose. Well, it is a different approach. That's the most generous thing I can find to say about this. Others seem to love it so maybe I'm just thick. No catharsis or sense of understanding, being understood for me in this. I'm left feeling sad, sitting with my own grief, and thick.

review from Mastodon: mastodon.social/@MythingPerson/111450928969059007 Magician, by K.L. Noone, is the gentlest, most lyrical romance fantasy I’ve ever read. A young Prince comes to ask for help for his small mountain kingdom from the world’s most powerful, and most reclusive, sorcerer and, in the process, teaches him to care again.

Warning: it does include several sex scenes that are hard to blindly skip past because they’re often funny. Choose wisely.

#HopePunk

this is a short story but as i haven't managed past the first chapter of anything in months and it's published as a stand alone, i'll let it be counted towards my goal.

it's moody and evocative, told as a single paragraph interior monologue of an experience the narrator/protagonist doesn't understand himself, but in the end it's perhaps quite simple.

There's a very old Jewish teaching which says "whoever saves a life, saves an entire world." This gentle and reflective novella, in which nothing much happens and yet lives change, is a version of this, told through the details of the quiet life of a man in an Irish village.

The combination of outrageous memoir and opinionated insights on being a woman is more than the sum of its parts. Many nods of recognition, though not the outrageous parts :)

To celebrate my books “going wide” (being for sale outside of Amazon) they’re all free until 31 July. Except on Amazon. I can’t make those free for amazonian reasons.

Science Fiction and Contemporary Fantasy set in alternate world South Africa.

*We Broke the Moon*
https://books2read.com/We-Broke-the-Moon

*Ray and the Cat Thing*
https://books2read.com/Ray-and-the-Cat-Thing
A friend called this book “like falling face first into a Ghibli movie.”

Linked Worlds Series: Someone here on mastodon called this “hard boiled and cozy” 
*The Babylon Eye*
https://books2read.com/The-Babylon-Eye
*The Real*
https://books2read.com/The-Real
*The Strange*
https://books2read.com/The-Strange

Crooked Word Series:
*Crooks & Straights*
https://books2read.com/Crooks-and-straights
*Wolf Logic*
https://books2read.com/Wolf-Logic

The Sisters Series:
*The Story Trap*
https://books2read.com/The-Stroy-Trap
*The Broken Path*
https://books2read.com/The-Broken-Path

More information on these books at https://masha.co.za/

#fantasy #scifi #FantasyBooks #ScienceFiction #LGBTQBooks

Big things happen but it's told in a low stakes kind of way. Easy to read, calm, measured, with simple insights.

Chosen as my first loan from the ebook service the library system uses, but mostly out of frustration because everything I had hoped to use it to read isn't available through it. Becky Chambers (solarpunk), which the central library has physical copies of, ok, that's niche. Hilary Mantel though? If I didn't have a deadline to be done with this one, read or not, I'd probably set it aside and who knows, maybe try again, or not. I'm 50 pages in and really only one thing has happened, the rest has been scene/relationship-setting. Ok, vent over :)