February book roundup

[unicornduke]

Read in Feb - e-books were kind to me this month. theme was new worlds

• Thornfruit by Felicia Dawn - really fascinating magic and fantasy world, pretty excited to read the rest of the triolgy - purchased ebook
• The Sapling Cage by Margaret Killjoy - trans girl joins local witch coven as the world turns on them, really pretty visceral, really good - library ebook
• A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine - sequel to the extremely busy week, surprise surprise things have consequences but there are some scary aliens out there and shit gets wild - physical library book
• The Bangalore Detectives Club by Harini Nagendra - it took me a bit to get used to the writing style, set in 1920s India, very Sherlock Holmes era style, but excellent and really really good - library ebook
• Heavens Queen by Rachel Bach - omg the conclusion of this trilogy was so good and she took charge and all the names and blew shit up so there you go - physical library book
• Where the Dead Brides Gather by Nuzo Onoh - short book, different style than I'm used to but I enjoyed it - library ebook
• Melusine by Katherine Addison - incredibly good book, really neat magic stuff, super huge warning about the (AO3 rating scale) Mature rape scene that is really close to the start of the book. library e-book
• The Last Hour Between Worlds by Melissa Caruso - fancy murder party, magic and inception if it was 12 layers deep. so fucking awesome. and lesbians. library e-book
• Murder Under a Red Moon by Harini Nagendra - next book in the series, nice detective book, did like - library e-book
• We Won't be Here Tomorrow and Other Stories by Margaret Killjoy - a bunch of short stories, extremely good but sad because none of them are full length books. library e-book
• Godkiller by Hannah Kaner - omg, extremely cool gods and magic and mystery and politics and more. really really good. library e-book
• Water Horse by Melissa Scott - a people slowly losing a generational war and how they deal with it. very cool world and just some magic. purchased e-book

Reread

• A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher - I like this a lot and I've read it a lot - library e-book

DNF

• Tehrangeles by Porochista Khakpour - a book about four of the most irritating people in the world and two vaguely interesting people, fine if you like to read the inner thoughts of self absorbed rich people, I despised them - library e book

Comments

[reedrover]

Some of these sound great. I somehow never finished A Desolation Called Peace; I should get back to it.

Kingfisher has a new book dropping in August - Hemlock & Silver

[unicornduke]

It was a delightful reading month, lots of good books and some I went in with low expectations so they were better than I thought they would be. A Desolation Call Peace definitely had more politics than the first book and less wild action packed into a week, so I wandered through the first half, more skimming. Lots of thinking about politics, which I only got through since I liked the other characters.

I saw that! I'm very excited since I liked Nettle and Bone so much

[reedrover]

The description of Agatha in the throne room is one of my favorites!