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All Our Pretty Songs by Sarah McCarry
Vivid and atmospheric YA about two deeply co-dependent teenaged girls who party hard and eventually encounter the supernatural by way of a boy musician. Good at what it’s doing, but I’m over YA in general, and also not in the mood for girls fighting over a dumb boy, and also this is doing that thing of ‘is it real or are they just stoned?’ which, meh. Should have read this ten years ago back when I first got it from Audible, oops.
Her Majesty’s Royal Coven by Juno Dawson
Definitely a case of what is wrong with me? Contemporary british fantasy about five witches years after the war with the warlocks, and a prophecy and stuff. This is doing stuff about witchcraft as a feminine art in a way that is trans inclusive, if you’ll believe that. And it’s also doing stuff about intersectionality re race. And yet, my brain just constantly slid right off it, and after putting it down and forgetting about it multiple times, I have to admit defeat at 50%. I genuinely do not know why.
When the Moon Hatched by Sarah A. Parker
Fantasy romance with a stabby heroine who speaks only in quips, when she isn’t killing people. This was the it book in fanro circles for like .5 seconds earlier this year. I read 40% of this while sick, but once well, could not take just how bad this writing is. It’s very lots bad.
The Future by Naomi Alderman
Another case of it’s probably me. This is a sapphic near future scifi about billionaire apocalypse survival fantasies and what’s fucked up about the internet and what’s not, and other stuff. I tried to read this twice, and it is interesting and clearly going somewhere, and I just cannot make myself focus on it.
Vivid and atmospheric YA about two deeply co-dependent teenaged girls who party hard and eventually encounter the supernatural by way of a boy musician. Good at what it’s doing, but I’m over YA in general, and also not in the mood for girls fighting over a dumb boy, and also this is doing that thing of ‘is it real or are they just stoned?’ which, meh. Should have read this ten years ago back when I first got it from Audible, oops.
Her Majesty’s Royal Coven by Juno Dawson
Definitely a case of what is wrong with me? Contemporary british fantasy about five witches years after the war with the warlocks, and a prophecy and stuff. This is doing stuff about witchcraft as a feminine art in a way that is trans inclusive, if you’ll believe that. And it’s also doing stuff about intersectionality re race. And yet, my brain just constantly slid right off it, and after putting it down and forgetting about it multiple times, I have to admit defeat at 50%. I genuinely do not know why.
When the Moon Hatched by Sarah A. Parker
Fantasy romance with a stabby heroine who speaks only in quips, when she isn’t killing people. This was the it book in fanro circles for like .5 seconds earlier this year. I read 40% of this while sick, but once well, could not take just how bad this writing is. It’s very lots bad.
The Future by Naomi Alderman
Another case of it’s probably me. This is a sapphic near future scifi about billionaire apocalypse survival fantasies and what’s fucked up about the internet and what’s not, and other stuff. I tried to read this twice, and it is interesting and clearly going somewhere, and I just cannot make myself focus on it.
