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Dr Ms Kat

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Kaliane Bradley: The Ministry of Time (Hardcover, 2024, Simon & Schuster)

In the near future, a civil servant is offered the salary of her dreams and …

I super enjoyed this one. Notionally a time travel story, but that's not really what it's about. Unless one of the other Hugo novel nominations is a surprise banger, this will probably get my top vote.

John Wiswell: Someone You Can Build a Nest In (2024, DAW)

Discover this creepy, charming monster-slaying fantasy romance—from the perspective of the monster—by Nebula Award-winning debut …

This was good and I enjoyed it, but I'm not sure it needed to be novel-length. It probably could have conveyed the same story in a shorter-length medium.

Hannah Kaner: Faithbreaker (2025, HarperCollins Publishers) No rating

THE EPIC FINALE TO THE INSTANT NO. 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING FALLEN GODS TRILOGYIn the …

Look this is the third book in the series. Broadly it's pretty good, but for a series about gods, it has two fire gods (different types) and their names both start with H and I keep getting them mixed up.

Em X. Liu: The Death I Gave Him (Hardcover, 2023, Rebellion) No rating

A lyrical queer sci-fi retelling of Shakespeare's Hamlet as a locked-room thriller. A Twenty-First Century …

Eh, I didn't really enjoy this. It's a sort of retelling of Hamlet but set in the future in a biochemistry lab.

commented on The System of the World by Neal Stephenson (The Baroque Cycle, #3)

Neal Stephenson: The System of the World (Hardcover, 2004, William Morrow) No rating

'Tis done.

The world is a most confused and unsteady place -- especially London, …

I'm in the last 300 pages of the book (and series) and I'm pretty excited to find out how he wraps it all up. My general reflection is that the whole series has been a good time and I don't get the hate some people have for it.

Rebecca Thorne: Can't Spell Treason Without Tea (AudiobookFormat, 2024, Pan Macmillan)

A heart-warming, sapphic journey brimming with jeopardy, magic and a love of tea – for …

I don't usually read multiple books at the same time but the Neal Stephenson book is too large to carry around and read when I'm out of the house. So it's another little cosy fantasy book.