Reviews and Comments

Pretty excited to start reading this, I didn't even know they had a new book in the works until it was released.

Simply filthy ;-)

Lovely little urban fantasy MM romance set in Edwardian England. Written by a Canberran!

My partner has read this and given a positive review so hoping for good things.

I nearly noped out of this one when I thought it was a story about how good US libertarianism is, but it turned out to be the reverse so I'm glad I stuck eith it.

Didn't finish how I thought it would, a good brain off story.

Not even sure if this is released yet, but I have a copy as one of JB's patrons. There was a character named after me in the first book of this series but I don't think she'll make a reapparance.

This was interesting. I think I already work like this in broad strokes but it was interesting to see it formalised.

I did not enjoy this one. Maybe some of it was stilted translation, but fundamentally the story is a bit 1950-60s western scifi. Sexism, science worship, etc.

This was lovely, another instalment of the Singing Hills books.

This was fucking weird. Some deeply problematic disableist attitudes but A+ for starting weird, staying weird, and finishing somewhere I didn't expect.

It's probably a quirk of translation but this book describes Mercury as having "tongue-shaped cliffs" and I just can't visualise what that's meant to look like.

Finally one of these Hugos nominations redeems itself! This was great, I loved it.

I know a lot of people really liked this but I found it kind of meh. Fundamentally it's a whodunnit but set on another planet (or moon, I guess), and it has queer characters. But one of them is manipulative and coercive and it did not read as a healthy dynamic to me.

Anyway moving onto the Hugo novella nominations now.