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started reading The Beautiful Decay by Veo Corva (Tombtown, #2)

Veo Corva: The Beautiful Decay (EBook, 2023, Witch Key Fiction)

Something strange is happening in sleepy subterranean Tombtown. Necromancers are disappearing. The crypt is changing. …

Deep beneath the Dead Mountains, in a secret and sprawling necropolis that smelled of dust and carried the chill of death, a woman with colourless eyes and a long trailing gown of black lace snorted and jerked upright, knocking over the complicated array of bobbins and partially-knit lace on the table in front of her.

#OpeningSentence

commented on Akata Woman by Nnedi Okorafor (The Nsibidi Scripts, #3)

Nnedi Okorafor: Akata Woman (Hardcover, 2022, Viking Books for Young Readers)

From the moment Sunny Nwazue discovered she had magic flowing in her blood, she sought …

AKATA WOMAN, the 3rd book in THE NSIBIDI SCRIPTS SERIES, is a Lodestar Award Finalist, 😊🇳🇬🧙🏾‍♀️✨!

AKATA WARRIOR won the very 1st one given a few years ago, 😃. This year’s finalist list for the Lodestar is powerful. I’m proud to be on it!

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T. Kingfisher, .: The Hollow Places (2020)

A young woman discovers a strange portal in her uncle’s house, leading to madness and …

The Hollow Places

Content warning metaspoilers maybe

City of Lies (Paperback)

City of Lies

A great fantasy novel revolving around a civil war in a small country, but focusing mainly on the experiences and interactions of the two main characters. I enjoyed the nuance around the different factions' and characters' motivations, as well as the fact that the protagonists were regular people in particular situations and not Chosen Ones. Apart from being in a different world, the fantasy treatment is very subtle and well-judged. I'm looking forward to finding out what the sequel has in store!

reviewed Engines of Oblivion by Karen Osborne (The Memory War, #2)

Karen Osborne: Engines of Oblivion (Paperback, 2021, Tor Books)

Natalie Chan gained her corporate citizenship, but barely survived the battle for Tribulation.

Now corporate …

Engines of Oblivion

I nibbled my way through this one in tiny chunks, because it's bleak in the same very plausible way that made me walk away from black mirror.

I enjoyed that it focused on a different character than the first installment, which allowed the narrative to come from a different direction and give a new perspective on events. An intriguing (while bleak) look at transhumanism/posthumanism in a setting of unfettered capitalism.