This review is based on an eARC (Advance Reading Copy) provided by the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Engines of Reason was released on September 1, 2026. Elder Race is a nearly perfect novella and is my favorite thing that Adrian Tchaikovsky has written. It doesn’t need a sequel. But when the… Continue reading Sci-fi Novella Review: Engines of Reason by Adrian Tchaikovsky
I don’t read middle-grade fantasy all that often, but my daughter does, and a late-summer complaint that she was out of books sent me scrambling to recommendation lists in search for quality reads that were stocked on our local library shelves. I returned with three, and she immediately picked up the shortest (Dealing With Dragons… Continue reading Fantasy Novel Review: The Lost Conspiracy by Frances Hardinge
This review is based on an eARC (Advance Reading Copy) provided by the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. A Trade of Blood was released on August 4, 2026. For much of the summer, I’ve been struggling to find long reads that truly captured my attention. With air travel ahead, I was looking… Continue reading Fantasy Novel Review: A Trade of Blood by Robert Jackson Bennett
This review is based on an eARC (Advance Reading Copy) provided by the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Palaces of the Crow was released on May 19, 2026. Ray Nayler wowed me a few years back with his debut novel, The Mountain in the Sea. My last couple reads didn’t quite hit… Continue reading Historical Speculative Novel Review: Palaces of the Crow by Ray Nayler
This review is based on an eARC (Advance Reading Copy) provided by the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. The Republic of Memory was released on May 5, 2026. Short Fiction Book Club picked up “Memories of Memories Lost” by Mahmud El Sayed a couple years back, and it remains my favorite of… Continue reading Sci-fi Novel Review: The Republic of Memory by Mahmud El Sayed
This review is based on a ebook provided by the author for the purpose of an honest review. Sometimes a new release checks so many boxes that there’s no real question about whether I’ll pick it up, only about how long it will take me to get my hands on it. With an author I’d… Continue reading Sci-fi Novella Review: The Language of Liars by S.L. Huang
This review is based on an eARC (Advance Reading Copy) provided by the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. If We Cannot Go at the Speed of Light will be released on April 28, 2026. For all that I adore sci-fi short fiction, I don’t read many collections cover-to-cover unless they’re coming from… Continue reading Sci-fi Short Fiction Review: If We Cannot Go at the Speed of Light by Kim Choyeop
I’m not much of a romantasy reader, so when I saw that a romantasy imprint was releasing a new book with a pretty cover, I didn’t think much of it. But a couple glowing reviews prompted me to take a further look, and an author interview pushing back against the perception of the novel… Continue reading Fantasy Novel Review: The Poet Empress by Shen Tao
Tamora Pierce’s Tortall universe seems to be a cultural touchstone for so many women in fantasy, but (in no small part due to having never been a girl reading fantasy), I’d never delved into it. But the combination of peer pressure and a couple auspicious Bingo squares gave me a reason to move the Protector of… Continue reading Fantasy Series Review: Protector of the Small by Tamora Pierce
I didn’t know too much about Daughter of the Forest going in—just that it involved a recovery arc after a deeply traumatic start and that it came highly recommended by a few friends. Had I realized it was a fantasy romance fairy tale retelling, I might mot have tried it at all. And that would’ve… Continue reading Fantasy Novel Review: Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier
