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48% complete! satanicguava has read 24 of 50 books.
a book of in-betweens. dreamscapes that never get quite as strange as they could. surrealist weird fiction that rejects the catharsis of vandermeer. stark quiet language, plenty of body horror, but nothing ever begins or ends- we just drop into the middle of it, regard for a while, and then the story is over. 3.5 stars. i rather like the catharsis of vandermeer.
i'm about 3/4 of the way through. strange surreal violent and melancholy, with forays into edgy teenage boy levels of "we live in a society"
The royal city of Astreiant, the capital of the Kingdom of Chenedolle, is bracing itself …
ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh this book accidentally got right up to the precipice of something interesting several times, and then each time immediately startled itself and sprinted away
The royal city of Astreiant, the capital of the Kingdom of Chenedolle, is bracing itself …
i'm 1/2 way through and really don't get a single thing that's going on. it's engaging in that it's making me consider what makes effective vs ineffective fantasy, but it's also a shame because i think that buried under waaay too much vocab there's an interesting world in there- if only i could figure out what it is.
Winner of the Finlandia Award, Troll: A Love Story is an enchanting novel that has …
no idea how i felt about that one
When Devin Stacy, a freelance necromancer, though the National Transportation Safety Board considers him an …
pretty much just a tv pilot for a show about a necromancer solving plane crashes. entertaining enough.
In The Grief of Stones, Katherine Addison returns to the world of The Goblin Emperor with a direct sequel …
A standalone novel in the fantastic world of Katherine Addison's award-winning The Goblin Emperor.
When young half-goblin emperor Maia sought …
Three brilliant novellas. One fantastic story. Collected together for the first time, T. Frohock’s three …
a guy who is half angel half demon has to go rescue his husband and long-lost son from celestial shenanigans. kinda reads like if the DaVinci Code and The Old Guard had a baby. that sounds entertaining in theory, but you need to work a little to convincingly write an 800 year old character, and for me this didn't hit the mark.
the epilogue where a surviving character is thrilled that after so many years of surviving the pure horror of WWI, they get to move to berlin and work with magnus hirschfeld to legalize homosexuality is. well.
this may be the bleakest book i have ever read.
world war i was very bad.
any theme established in the first book is so very neatly and meticulously deconstructed by this book that i'm confused as to why this was written. neither the world, nor any single character grows or changes, which is weird because they do in the first book, and then all that change is carefully undone in this one.
like YA game of thrones if you played the curb your enthusiasm theme song over it, but not nearly as good as that sounds
