Review: Dragon Age Tevinter Nights – Burn, Thedas, Burn

Title: Dragon Age: Tevinter Nights Author(s): Patrick Weekes, Sylvia Fektekuty, John Epler, Lukas Kristjanson, Brianne Battye, Caitlin Sullivan Kelly, Courtney Woods, Ryan Cormier, Arone LaBray Publisher: Tor Books Genre(s): Epic Fantasy, Game-to-Novel Subject(s): Gods, LGBTQ+ Release Date: March 10th, 2020 Page Count: 496 (paperback) Rating: 8.0/10     The Dragon Age games are dark, heroic, …

Review: Docile – Important and Poignant Enough to Write a Poem For (Which I Did)

Title: Docile Author: K.M. Szpara Publisher: Tor Books Genre(s): Speculative Fiction Subject(s): Consent, BDSM, LGBTQ+ (main and secondary) Release Date: March 3rd, 2020 Page Count: 464 (hardback) Rating: 9.0/10       To be a Docile is to be kept, body and soul, for the uses of the owner of your contract. To be a …

Review: The Unspoken Name – A Saga of Badass Lesbian Orc and Wonder Bread Boy

Title: The Unspoken Name Author: A.K. Larkwood Publisher: Tor Books Genre(s): Epic Fantasy, Portal Fantasy Subject(s): Gods, Coming-of-Age, LGBTQ+ (main and secondary) Release Date: Feb 11th, 2020 Page Count: 464 (hardback) Rating: 6.0/10         What if you knew how and when you will die? Csorwe does. She will climb the mountain, enter …

Review: Magic for Liars – Ivy Gamble is Not Magic and She Wants Everyone to Know

Title: Magic for Liars Author: Sarah Gailey Publisher: Tor Books Release Date: June 4th, 2019 Genre(s): Fantasy, Mystery Subjects and Themes: Siblings, Mental Health, LGBTQIAP+ (Secondary) Page Count: 336 (hardback) Rating: 5.0/10       Ivy Gamble was born without magic and never wanted it. Ivy Gamble is perfectly happy with her life – or …

Review: A Memory Called Empire – A Brilliantly Ambitious Space Opera

Title: A Memory Called Empire (Texicalaan 1) Author: Arkady Martine Publisher: Tor Books Release Date: March 26th, 2019 Genre(s): Science Fiction Space Opera Subjects and Themes: Political Intrigue, Culture, LGBTQIAP+ Page Count: 464 (hardback) Rating: 8.0/10 Ambassador Mahit Dzmare arrives in the center of the multi-system Teixcalaanli Empire only to discover that her predecessor, the …

Review: A Labyrinth of Scions and Sorcery – AncestryDNA: Three Musketeers Edition

Hey, everyone! Sorry for being rather absent for the last week and a half. I've been super busy preparing for a neuroscience conference and it's been kind of a mentally taxing endeavour. But I'll be back on Monday to catch up on posts and comments! Meanwhile, enjoy this slightly overdue review!   Title: A Labyrinth …

Review: The Monster Baru Cormorant – A Chess Game, A Lesson in Economics, And a Masterclass in Character Work

Title: The Monster Baru Cormorant (The Masquerade 2) Author: Seth Dickinson Publisher: Tor Books Release Date: October 30th, 2018 Genre(s): Epic Fantasy Subjects and Themes: Politics, Economy, LGBTQIAP+ Page Count: 464 (hardback) Rating: 9.0/10 As the long-awaited sequel to Traitor Baru Cormorant, Monster was one of my two most anticipated releases of 2018 and I …

Novella Review: Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach – Smart Eco Scifi

Title: Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach Author: Kelly Robson Publisher: Tor.com Release Date: March 13th, 2018 Genre: Sci-Fi, Post-Apocalypse Subjects and Themes: Time Travel, Ecology Page Count: 240 (paperback) Rating: 7.5/10       First of all, can we just take a moment to appreciate how fantastic that cover is? Secondly, to all you …

Review: Armistice (Amberlough Dossier 2) – Less Stripping But More Talking

Title: Armistice (Amberlough Dossier 2) Author: Lara Elena Donnelly Publisher: Tor Books Release Date: May 15th, 2018 Genre(s): Fantasy Page Count: 400 (paperback) Goodreads Rating: 8.0/10       Lara Elena Donnelly's debut Amberlough was a dazzling story of decadence, sex, and the embrace of art in the face of authoritarianism. But readers who dive …

Review: Fire Dance – Beautiful and Etched with Heartrending Loneliness

Title: Fire Dance Author: Ilana C. Myer Publisher: Tor Books Release Date: April 10th, 2018 Genre(s): Fantasy Page Count: 368 (hardback) Goodreads Rating: 9.5/10         That, he believed, was the essence of what it meant to be a poet. Not to work magic. Rather it was to see, and weave verse from, …