fantasy – Page 5

Experiments in Imagining Otherwise

by Lola Olufemi

★★★½

Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century

by Kim Fu

★★★

How to Recognize a Demon Has Become Your Friend

by Linda Addison

★★½

I don’t recommend it unless you already found this world immersive. This one is more violent (the action scenes are skimmable). Male is default, women and girls are still introduced by their bodies and/or sexist insults. The title character is practically an incel, and a Mary Sue, … Read more

Djinn City

Saad Z. Hossain

A sensitivity reader could transform a fair amount. It’s otherwise enveloping and droll.

No Gods, No Monsters

(Convergence Saga #1)

by Cadwell Turnbull

★★★★½

The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday

by Saad Z. Hossain

★★★★

Beneath the Rising

by Premee Mohamed

Flows well enough at the start but as soon as the stakes are set it becomes something like when you humour a friend who wants to recount an incoherent dream they had the night before. Lasting impressions are of unfunny banter, both connection and conflict that don’t ring … Read more

by Lyssa Chiavari

by Peng Shepherd

by Lola Olufemi

by Vandana Singh

by Darcie Little Badger

by Kiese Laymon

by Kim Fu

by Meg Elison

by Rachel Ingalls

by Linda Addison

by Saad Z. Hossain

Saad Z. Hossain

by Derrick A. Bell

(Convergence Saga #1)

by Cadwell Turnbull

by Saad Z. Hossain

by Premee Mohamed

by Shelley Parker-Chan

by Ariel Gore

by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

by K.J. Charles