Two bookses.
Marie Rutkoski’s THE WINNER’S CRIME, and Seanan McGuire’s POCKET APOCALYPSE, courtesy of their respective publishers.
I’m pretty much on hiatus from reading because my brain is broken. But if my brain weren’t broken, I’d be very happy about these books.
Marie Rutkoski, The Winner’s Curse, FSG, 2014.
Written about this one with Stefan Raets at Tor.com. A lot of fun, but flawed.
Carsen Taite, Beyond Innocence, Rush, Slingshot, and Battle Axe. Bold Strokes Books, ebooks, various years.
Lesbian romance. Not SFF, and I was deceived to the extent of the role played by mysteries. The latter two have more better mysteries, and are more enjoyable. Not particularly great quality, but not notably terrible either.
Tessa Dare, Romancing the Duke. Ebook, 2014.
Regency romance. Slight, but entertaining. Also, fandom jokes. Recommendation came via Tansy Rayner Roberts.
Jacqueline Carey, Santa Olivia. Grand Central, 2009.
I hear a lot of people referring to this as YA. It doesn’t feel like YA to me at all. But it is really good. All about oppression and life and comings of age in multiple directions. Also boxing. It is big on the boxing. Recommended.
Andrzej Sapkowski, Blood of Elves. Gollancz, 2008. Translated by Danusia Stok.
Interesting. I’m not sure I’d stick with the series if I hadn’t played the videogame. It seems fairly so-so, a little bit too clearly pulling from RPG roots. And not great at its female characters. On the other hand, it does have a certain something…
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea 