by Simon Jimenez
★★½
Tag archives: fantasy
A Dead Djinn in Cairo
by P. Djèlí Clark
★★★★
Ring Shout
by P. Djèlí Clark
★★★★★
Queens of Noise
by Leigh Harlen
★★★
The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water
by Zen Cho
Not half a sneeze of subversion in this recreated patriarchy. Body shaming and threats of genital mutilation serve as comedy.
Finna
by Nino Cipri
★★★
A Spectral Hue
by Craig Laurance Gidney
★★★★
Ambiguity Machines and Other Stories
by Vandana Singh
★★★★½
The Only Good Indians
by Stephen Graham Jones
★★½
Elatsoe
by Darcie Little Badger
★★★★
Trickster Drift
(Trickster #2)
by Eden Robinson
My favourite of the trilogy. I laughed and smiled often. Eden Robinson does an amazing job at warmly folding you into the lives of these characters.
Son of a Trickster
(Trickster #1)
by Eden Robinson
Harrowing, one of a kind, full of humour. I snickered (like Ernie) at the exchanges between Jared and Sarah.
Or What You Will
by Jo Walton
★★★½
Future Home of the Living God
by Louise Erdrich
★★★★
Friday Black
by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Uneven, from distasteful sympathies (the anti-abortion Lark Street and the entitled white male murderer redemption story Light Spitter) to scintillating acuity
Mexican Gothic
by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
★★★½
Babel-17
by Samuel R. Delany
★★★★
Flight
by Sherman Alexie
★★★
At the Mouth of the River of Bees
by Kij Johnson
★½
The Whale Rider
by Witi Ihimaera
★★★