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Quantum of Nightmares • 2022 • Urban Fantasy novel by Charles Stross
Synopsis: Quantum of Nightmares is the sequel to Dead Lies Dreaming, set in an alternate London in the Laundry Files universe, but with a fresh start of characters and topics. The book takes up exactly at the point where it … Continue reading
Black Sun • 2020 • High Fantasy novel by Rebecca Roanhorse
First sentence: Today he would become a god. His mother had told him so. Synopsis: The novel starts with a pitch perfect chapter describing the ceremonial blinding and carving of young Serapio by his mother. A strong and harsh impression … Continue reading
The Thief on the Winged Horse • 2020 • Fantasy novel by Kate Mascarenhas
★★☆☆☆ Synopsis: The Kendrick family has been in the trade of fabricating dolls for the last two centuries in a town near Oxford. As a family secret, they are the only ones who are able to cast a magic spell on … Continue reading
Dead Lies Dreaming • 2020 • Urban Fantasy novel by Charles Stross
★★★★☆ Synopsis: It’s an alternate London in the Laundry Files universe, but with a fresh start of characters and topics, and hopefully less tentacles. An anarchic robber gang, the transhuman “Lost Boys”, stage several robberies. Their ultimate goal is to fund … Continue reading
Lions and Tigers and Girlfriends • 2020 • SF short story by Tina Connolly
★☆☆☆☆ Synopsis: A settler space ship will take three years longer to its target planet. The teenagers are all highly frustrated, half the girls are crying. The diary of one of those girls follows the next weeks as she gets … Continue reading
Invisible People • 2020 • Near Future SF novelette by Nancy Kress
★★★★☆ Synopsis: Kenly is an adopted daughter, and “everything parents hope for: kind, hones, smart, sunny“. The happy family live turns when FBI special agents tell the parents that Kenly’s been gen altered causing her to take risky behavior. Behind … Continue reading
Savage Legion • 2020 • Military Fantasy novel by Matt Wallace
★★★☆☆ Synopsis: A politician’s got lost in the secretive world of a superficially happy state. Behind the curtains, there are ugly ghettos, and a police state with hidden dictatorial rulers. The three main characters find their way through the impenetrable … Continue reading
Wishes do come true!
Netgalley has the option to “Request” a book or to “Wish for it”, the latter being fulfilled extremely seldom – in my case never. Up to today! I don’t consider this as a Level up, because Christmas is neither. Now, … Continue reading
Of Dragons, Feasts and Murders • 2020 • Urban Fantasy novella by Aliette de Bodard
★★★★☆ Synopsis: Lunar New Year festival is approaching in the domain of the Vietnamese dragons. Dragon prince Thuan and his Fallen Angel husband Asmodeus come to this underwater realm to celebrate with the High Court family. Instead, they get entangled … Continue reading
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