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A classic melodrama of manners, filled with remarkable plot twists and unexpected humor, takes fantasy …
How did I never know about mannerpunk before?! Discovering the name of a genre you already love is like discovering the door to a secret garden. A secret garden full of swords and arch looks.
Within the context of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, a military project sends messages to alien …
This read is long overdue
Returning home to smalltown Ontario from the “Great War”, Will Grant finds no home left …
The thing about an ambiguous story is that you don’t know what to think for a while after the last page.
A ragtag space crew discovers alien technology that could change the fate of humanity—or awaken …
A lot of protagonist-centred sci-fi written for YA and YA+ audiences can be sloppy about characterization and world-building. Happily, The Wrong Stars doesn’t fall into that trap. We get romance and a solid protagonist competence-fantasy, but without the maundering inside or outside of her head that’s such a common pitfall.
A solid read, a satisfying adventure tale, a relationship I cheered and feared for, and an intriguing setting with intrinsic stakes I care about. It makes me want to continue the series to find out what happens next. A success by any measure.
A ragtag space crew discovers alien technology that could change the fate of humanity—or awaken …
The Daughter enthusiastically recommends it. Let’s see!
Returning home to smalltown Ontario from the “Great War”, Will Grant finds no home left …
Catching up with Mel, he sent me a copy to read.
What if the post-apocalyptic world was inherited by the android avatars of a famous duck, …
Florida vs. Disney lead to a chatroom about politics, offhand predictions that Disney would outlive us all, and then a mention of “Heirs of the Perisphere”—a short story about the last Tokyo Disney Resort animatronics in the far post-apocalypse searching for the remains of humanity—by Howard Waldrop, an accomplished author I'd somehow never heard of. So here we are. Gawrsh.
Florida vs. Disney lead to a chatroom about politics, offhand predictions that Disney would outlive us all, and then a mention of “Heirs of the Perisphere”—a short story about the last Tokyo Disney Resort animatronics in the far post-apocalypse searching for the remains of humanity—by Howard Waldrop, an accomplished author I'd somehow never heard of. So here we are. Gawrsh.
Fantasy World is about facing danger, exploring meaningful relationships, traveling to fantastic places and facing …
Not entirely happy with this game. Very inconsistent tone, maybe partly to blame on the translation, and tone is so important in a PbtA game to make the marriage of fiction and function work right. A lot of questionable word choice in the translation too, but the underlying text is often wordy and talks around an idea instead of expressing it concisely.
Not at all impressed by “magically twisted = ugly = evil” being the central tension of one class. The design is good in a lot of the rules, but the class Moves feel like the weakest part.
A collection of Beatrix Potter’s short stories for children, ordered by date of publication.
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Each story adds to a strange, self-referential world of animals that are an odd mix of people and animals—young pigs wear coats and are warned about being bought for bacon, kittens are put in Sunday best while running around on four feet, mice make dresses from cloth scraps and keep city manners while other mice go naked without comment. Endearing, a little weird… and very of its time.
Chronicles Judith Deuteros, Coronabeth Tridentarius, and Camilla Hect's time with Blood of Eden directly following the events of Gideon the …
A collection of Beatrix Potter’s short stories for children, ordered by date of publication.
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Standard Ebooks just published this Beatrix Potter collection. Beautifully-assembled files, as usual.
The only life Tress has known on her island home in an emerald-green ocean has been a simple one, with …
A short story by Tamsyn Muir that takes place prior to the events in her …
That was fun.
This really should be listed as 1.5 in the series, not 0.5. I think that's a Goodreads librarian error. Though it's young Cam and Palamedes, it's being written/related by Camilla after the events of Gideon the Ninth.
That was fun.
This really should be listed as 1.5 in the series, not 0.5. I think that's a Goodreads librarian error. Though it's young Cam and Palamedes, it's being written/related by Camilla after the events of Gideon the Ninth.
A short story by Tamsyn Muir that takes place prior to the events in her …
I just discovered this Locked Tomb short story exists! This is worth a short detour from Tress of the Emerald Sea.
The only life Tress has known on her island home in an emerald-green ocean has …
Content warning Very mild spoilers for Huck, seas, and cups. It's only 17% in after all.
This is somehow both exactly and nothing like what I expected from the original preview.
Tress is a great main character and subversive af, Charlie is the right kind of endearing to be neither annoying nor cloying, and I'm looking forward to seeing more of Huck because who doesn't love a talking animal and rats are adorable.
I want to know why this one cup with the butterfly is being Chekhov'd.
The sea is neat. I hope we do get to see some more colours of seas. We should (q.v. the cup), unless things go very sideways from even the normal adventure-sideways that's happening.