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reviewed A Winter's Promise by Christelle Dabos (The Mirror Visitor Quartet, #1)

Christelle Dabos, Hildegarde Serle: A Winter's Promise (Hardcover, 2018) 5 stars

Volume 1 of The Mirror Visitor Quartet

Winner of the Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire

Where …

like re-reading a childhood favorite

5 stars

I think on some spiritual level, even though this wasn't published until I was an adult, I feel like I read and loved this as a young teen. Reading it now felt like wrapping myself in the coziest blanket of imaginary nostaliga. I stayed up late reading this and read it instead of doing other things I needed to do. It's been a very long time since I have felt this immersed in a world.

It reminded me a little of The Goblin Emperor in its depth of humanity, and its portrayal of cruelty that doesn't make light of it, and, weirdly, I feel like there's some backstory parallels with Gideon the Ninth, although it couldn't be more differently tonally.

There were times were I did find it a little moralizing, and when the writing rang a bit off, but I loved it very much and if you don't …

Joss Lake: Future Feeling (Paperback, 2021, Soft Skull) No rating

An embittered dog walker obsessed with a social media influencer inadvertently puts a curse a …

hard to express the degree to which this was not my thing. it was sarcastic about things I enjoy sincerely and had a core utopian vision of queerness that read to me as quasi-corporate