This review is based on an eARC (Advance Reading Copy) provided by the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Slow Burn was released on August 18, 2026. Amal Singh has come across my reading list with a few short stories in Clarkesworld, and they’re always good reads. So, while short fiction and long… Continue reading Fantasy Novel Review: Slow Burn by Amal Singh
This review is based on an eARC (Advance Reading Copy) provided by the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Preaching to the Choir was released on August 11, 2026. I first read Adrian Tchaikovsky six or seven years ago, and he quickly became one of my favorite authors. But I soon realized that… Continue reading Horror Novella Review: Preaching to the Choir by Adrian Tchaikovsky
This review is based on an eARC (Advance Reading Copy) provided by the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. The Inevitable Undoing of Zahara Douglass was released on August 11, 2026. With her roots in fantasy romance, Leslye Penelope is an author I’d seen discussed but had never really sought out in the… Continue reading Science Fantasy Novel Review: The Inevitable Undoing of Zahara Douglass by Leslye Penelope
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
I’d heard some positive buzz about Freya Marske’s Cinder House before awards shortlists were released, but seeing as how I didn’t seem to fit any of the target demographics, I let it pass by until a Hugo nomination sent it climbing back up my TBR. Even though I hadn’t picked it off the shelf on… Continue reading Fantasy Novella Review: Cinder House by Freya Marske
T. Kingfisher’s Sworn Soldier series offers bite-sized horror stories linked by a common central character. And because the first three have been nominated for Hugos, I keep reading them. I liked What Moves the Dead well enough but did not care for What Feasts at Night, so it was with some apprehension that I approached… Continue reading Horror Novella Review: What Stalks the Deep by T. Kingfisher
When Jared Pechaček’s debut novel, The West Passage, came out last year, I heard no shortage of praise from my usual circles. However, much of the praise was for the weird worldbuilding (not usually a huge selling point for me), and it appeared to have a quest plot structure (something I actively dislike), so I… Continue reading Fantasy Novel Review: The West Passage by Jared Pechaček
Automatic Noodle was one of those books that was impossible to avoid in certain spaces last year. I haven’t been particularly wowed by the cozy trend in SFF, so I let it pass upon release, figuring I’d circle back after the inevitable Hugo nomination. Fast-forward a year and it’s been shortlisted for Best Novella, so… Continue reading Sci-fi Novella Review: Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz
This review is based on an eARC (Advance Reading Copy) provided by the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Everybody’s Perfect was released on June 30, 2026. I’ve heard a lot about Jo Walton—both for her fiction and her nonfiction—but the only novel of hers I’d read was Lifelode, a strange, experimental piece… Continue reading Fantasy Novel Review: Everybody’s Perfect by Jo Walton
I don’t read too much middle-grade fiction, but I do occasionally dip my toe, and The Last Cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera has been recommended by enough friends that it was high on my list to try. And with Middle Grade on this year’s Bingo board, there was no better time than the present. The… Continue reading Middle-Grade Sci-fi Novel Review: The Last Cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera
