Reviews

See any reviews posted to my blog, organized by author. There seprate sections for Novels/Novellas, Anthologies, Non-Speculative Works, and DNFs. If you’d like to see books by topic or subgenre, the tabs page should be helpful.

Novels & Novellas

• Aaron, Rachel: By a Silver Thread (DFZ Changeling #1)
• Abercrombie, Joe: The Devils (The Devils #1)
• Addison, Katherine: The Goblin Emperor
• Addison, Katherine: Witness for the Dead (Cemeteries of Amalo #1)
• Addison, Katherine: The Tomb of Dragons (Cemeteries of Amalo #3)
• Andrews, Ilona: The Inheritance (Breach Wars#1)
• Andrews, Ilona: This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me (Maggie the Undying #1)
• Aoki, Ryka: Light From Uncommon Stars
• Argus: The Daily Grind (Volume 1)
• Arseneault, Claudie: City of Strife (City of Spires #1)
• Baldwin, Joaquín: Wolf of Withervale (Noss Saga #1)
• Baldwin, Joaquín: Masks of the Miscam (Noss Saga #2)
• Balle, Solvej: On the Calculation of Volume (#1)
• Barker, Clive: Mister B. Gone
• Barker, R.A.: The Bone Ships (Tide Child #1)
• Begley, Tobias: The First Gate (Mana Mirror #1)
• Begley, Tobias: The Enchanter (Journals of Evander Tailor #1)
• Begley, Tobias: The Diviner (Journals of Evander Tailor #2)
• Begley, Tobias: The Effaced (Secret Records of Axel Font #1)
• Begley, Tobias: The Restored (Secret Records of Axel Font #2)
• Bennet, M.N.: Three Meant to Be (Branches of Past and Future #1)
• Bennet, M.N.: Two Who Live On (Branches of Past and Future #2)
• Bennett, Robert Jackson: The Divine Cities Trilogy (Books 1-3)
• Bennett, Robert Jackson: The Tainted Cup (Shadow of the Leviathan #1)
• Bennett, Robert Jackson: A Drop of Corruption (Shadow of the Leviathan #2)
• Bierce, John: The City that Would Eat the World (More Gods than Stars #1)
• Biswas, Sharang: The Iron Below Remembers
• Blackgoose, Moniquill: To Ride a Rising Storm (Nampeshiweisit #2)
• Blake, Polenth: Werecockroach (Werecockroach #1)
• Bob the Drag Queen: Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert
• Brooks, Mike: The Black Coast (The God King Chronicles #1)
• Buehlman, Christopher: The Daughter’s War (Blacktongue #0)
• Bujold, Lois McMaster: Penric’s Demon (Penric and Desdemona #1)
• Butler, Octavia: Unexpected Stories
• Campbell, Annabel: The Outcast Mage (The Shattered Lands #1)
• Campbell, Cebo: Sky Full of Elephants
• Carrick, M.A.: The Mask of Mirrors (Rook and Rose #1)
• Carriger, Gail: Divinity 36 (Tinkered Starsong #1)
• Carson, Anne: Autobiography of Red
• Cavehill, Steven: A Rune in the Rubble (The God’s Bait Saga #1)
• Cavehill, Steven: An Inexplicable Act of Doom (The Fated Feathers #1)
• Chambers, Becky: Monk and Robot (Books 1-2)
• Chandrasekera, Vajra: Rakesfall
• Charles, K.J.: Magpie Lord (A Charm of Magpies #1)
• Choo, Yangszee: The Fox Wife
• Chu, Wesley: The War Arts Saga (The Complete Trilogy)
• Collins, Suzanne: Sunrise on the Reaping (Hunger Games 0.5)
• Cooney, C.S.E.: The Bone Swans of Amandale
• Costa, Marina: Shoestring Theory
• Crane, Marisa: I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself
• Curtis, Grace: Floating Hotel
• Dawson, Juno: Her Majesty’s Royal Coven (Her Majesty’s Royal Coven #1)
• Dickinson, Seth: The Traitor Baru Cormorant (Masquerade #1)
• Dinnaman, Matt: Dungeon Crawler Carl (Dungeon Crawler Carl #1)
• Dinnaman, Matt: This Inevitable Ruin (Dungeon Crawler Carl #7)
• Dinnaman, Matt: A Parade of Horribles (Dungeon Crawler Carl #8)
• Drews, C.G.: Don’t Let the Forest in
• Dunn, Kat: Hungerstone
• Edwards, K.D.: The Last Sun (Tarot Sequence #1)
• Elsbai, Hadeer: Daughters of Izdihar (Alamaxa Duology #1)
• Elsbai, Hadeer: Weavers of Alamaxa (Alamaxa Duology #2)
• Ennes, Hiron: Works of Vermin
• Enright, K.M.: Mistress of Lies (The Age of Blood #1)
• Evans, Johannes T.: Heart of Stone
• Fletcher, Michael R.: The Storm Beneath the World (Children of Corruption #1)
• Fletcher, Michael R: Beyond Redemption (Manifest Delusions #1)
• Flewelling, Lynn: Luck in the Shadows (Nightrunner #1)
• Flewelling, Lynn: Stalking Darkness (Nightrunner #2)
• Frey, JM: Nine-Tenths
• Ford, Daniel M.: The Warden (The Warden #1)
• Gailey, Sarah: American Hippo (American Hippo #1-2)
• Gibson, S.T.: Evocation (The Summoner’s Circle #1)
• Gislason, Lor & Lavigne, Shelley: The Flesh of the Sea
• Givler, Andrew: Ironbound (Ironbound #1)
• Goddard, Victoria: The Bone Harp
• Gonzalez James, Elizabeth: The Bullet Swallower
• Gorne, Joseph: The Vessel’s Blood (Belarythm’s Branches #1)
• Greatwich, Will: House of the Rain King
• Grossman, Lev: The Bright Sword
• Gwynne, John: The Bloodsworn Saga (Books 1-3)
• Hajicek, Jessee: The God Eaters
• Hale, Ginn: The Long Past
• Hale, Ginn: Lord of the White Hell (Book 1)
• Hale, Ginn: Price of a Thousand Blessings Volume 1
• Hall, Kerstin: Asunder
• Hallow, S. M.: How to Survive This Fairytale
• Henderson, Alexis: An Academy for Liars
• Hennig, J. Tullos: Greenwode (Books of Wode #1)
• Hennig, J. Tullow: Shirewode (Books of Wode #2)
• Hodgson, Antonia: The Raven Scholar (Eternal Path Trilogy #1)
• Huang, Justinian: The Emperor and the Endless Palace
• Hur, Anton: Toward Eternity
• Hutchinson, Shaun David: The School for Invisible Boys (The Kairos Files #1)
• Islington, James: The Strength of the Few (The Hierarchy #2)
• Jacka, Benedict: An Inheritance of Magic (Inheritance of Magic #1)
• Jimenez, Simon: The Spear Cuts Through Water
• Jones, Stephen Graham: The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
• Karunatilaka, Shehan: The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
• Karpa, Mike: Red Dot
• Khaw, Cassandra: The Salt Grows Heavy
• Killjoy, Margaret: The Sapling Cage (Daughters of the Empty Throne #1)
• Kushner, Ellen: Swordspoint (Riverside #1)
• Kushner, Ellen and Sherman, Delia: The Fall of Kings (Riverside #3)
• Lambert, Brent: A Necessary Chaos
• Lawrence, Mark: The Book That Wouldn’t Burn (Library Trilogy #1)
• Le Guin, Ursula K. The Lathe of Heaven
• Lee, Fonda: Jade City (Green Bone Saga #1)
• Lee, Mary Soon: The Sign of the Dragon
• Lee, Shannon & Lee, Fonda: Breath of the Dragon (Breathmarked #1)
• Lee, Yoon Ha: Ninefox Gamit (Machineries of Empire #1)
• Lee Baker, Kylie: Japanese Gothic
• Lemberg, R.B.: The Four Profound Weaves (Birdverse #1)
• Leo, Amy: The Scarlet Throne (The False Goddess #1)
• Liu, Em X.: If Found Return to Hell
• Longman, Finn: The Wolf and His King
• Mandelo, Lee: The Woods All Black
• Manibo, Victor: The Sleepless
• Marske, Freya: Cinder House
• Mayne, Lily: Impromptu Match (Goliaths of Wrestling #1)
• McCloud: Party of Fools (Empire of Eats #1)
• McKillip, Patricia A.: Od Magic
• Meadows, Foz: A Strange And Stubborn Endurance (Tithenai Chronicles #1)
• Medlock, Noah: A Bontanical Daughter
• Mills, Samantha: The Wings Upon Her Back
• Min, Dolki: Walking Practice
• Mohamed, Premee: The Butcherer of the Forest
• Neff, Henry H: The Witchstone
• Nicolás, Rafael: Angels Before Man (Angels #1)
• Nicolet, R.Z.: The Cloak and It’s Wizard
• Nichols, Griffin: Regicide: Saints of Firnus
• Novik, Naomi: A Deadly Education (Schoolomance #1)
• Odom, J.L.: By Blood, By Salt (Land of Exile #1)
• Pacat, C.S.: Dark Rise (Dark Rise #1)
• Parker, K.J.: Making History
• Polk, C.L.: Witchmark (Kingston Cycle #1)
• Porter, Max: Lanny
• Pueyo, Hache: But Not Too Bold
• Pueyo, Hache: Cabaret in Flames
• Pullen, Nicholas: The Black Hunger
• Pulley, Natasha: The Mars House
• Raasch, Sara: The Nightmare Before Kissmas (Royals and Romance #1)
• Ramsay, Laurence: Kyn (The Resonance Cycle #1)
• Rice, Anne: Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles #1)
• Riddle, Travis M.: Flesh Eater (Houndstooth #1)
• Rowe, Andrew: Sufficiently Advanced Magic (Arcane Ascension #1)
• Rowe, Christopher: The Navigating Fox
• Rowland, Alexandra: Running Close to the Wind
• Rowland, Alexandra: A Conspiracy of Truths (Tales of the Chants #1)
• Rowland, Alexandra: Yield Under Great Persuasion
• Royce, Eden: Psychopomp and Circumstance
• Sagas, L.M,: Cascade Failure (Ambit’s Run #1)
• Samatar, Sofia: The Practice, The Horizon, and The Chain
• Sangoyomi, O.O.: Masquerade
• Schaeffer, Rebecca: Not Even Bones (Market of Monsters #1)
• Schafer, Courtney: The Whitefire Crossing (Shattered Sigil #1)
• Schrefer, Eliot: The Darkness Outside Us (The Darkness Outside Us #1)
• Screfer, Eliot: The Brightness Between Us (The Darkness Outside Us #2)
• Schwab, V.E.: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
• Simmons, Dan: Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos #1)
• Slayton, David: Dark Moon Shallow Sea (Dark Moon Shallow Sea #1)
• Spector, Elijah Kinch: Kalyna the Soothsayer (Failures of the Four Kingdoms #1)
• Spector, Elijah Kinch: Kalyna the Cutthroat (Failures of the Four Kingdoms #2)
• Stephenson, Neal: Snow Crash
• Stone, Haley: Make Me No Grave
• Sui, A.D.: The Iron Garden Sutra (The Cosmic Wheel #1)
• Sullivan, Cameron: The Red Winter
• Suri, Tasha: The Jasmine Throne (Burning Kingdoms Saga #1)
• Tagaq, Tanya: Split Tooth
• Talabi, Wole: Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obafulon
• Tavares, Nathan: The Disco at the End of the World
• Tavares, Nathan: A Fractured Infinity
• Tavares, Nathan:Welcome to Forever
• Tchaikovsky, Adrian: Alien Clay
• Tchaikovsky, Adrian: Children of Time (Children of Time #1)
• Tesh, Emily: Silver in the Wood (Greenhollow Duology #1)
• Tesh, Emily: Drowned Country (Greenhollow Duology #2)
• Tesh, Emily: The Incandescent
• Thao, Dustin: You’ve Found Oliver (You’ve Reached Sam #2)
• Thomas, Aiden: Cemetery Boys (Cemetery Boys #1)
• Thomas, Aiden: The Sunbearer Duology (Sunbearer Trials & Celestial Monsters)
• Twigg, Benjamin: Dad Magic (The Monarch Children Saga #1)
• Utomi, Moses Ose: The Lies of the Ajungo (The Forever Desert #1)
• Utomi, Moses Ose: The Truth of the Aleke (The Forever Desert #2)
• Utomi, Moses Ose: The Memory of the Ogisi (The Forever Desert #3)
• Vidmar, Josh: Elements of Change (Striker V #1)
• Vo, Nghi: Empress of Salt and Fortune (Singing Hills Cycle #1)
• Vo, Nghi: The Brides of High Hill (Singing Hills Cycle #5)
• Vo, Nghi: Siren Queen
• Walton, Jo: Lifelode
• Wang, ML: Blood Over Bright Haven
• Weber, Matt: Brimstone Slipstream (Streets of Flame #1)
• Whitcher, Ursula: North Continent Ribbon
• White, Andrew Joseph: Compound Fracture
• Wilson, Kai Ashante: A Taste of Honey
• Winter, Evan: The Rage of Dragons (The Burning #1)
• Winter, Robert: Falconsaga
• Wiswell, John: Someone You Can Build a Nest In
• Wolff, Timothy: The Whisper that Replaced God (A Silent Duology #1)
• Yoo, Sam Kyung: Small Gods of Calamity
• José Luis Zárate: The Route of Ice and Salt

Anthologies

• Caldwell, Christopher: Call and Response
• Cho, Zen: Spirits Abroad
• Cooney, C.S.E.: Bone Swans
• Lee, Yoon Ha: The Fox’s Tower and Other Tales
• Liu, Ken: The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
• Romanus, Jay Kang (Editor): Dudes Rock: A Celebration of Queer Masculinity in Speculative Fiction
• Talabi, Wole: Convergence Problems

Sequential Art (Comics, Graphic Novels, etc)

• Ahmed, Saladin: Abbott 1-3 (Abbott, Abbott 1973, Abbott 1979)
• Anta, Julio: Frontera
• Ba, Juni: Monkey Meat: The First Batch
• Ba, Juni: Monkey Meat: The Summer Batch
• Booher, David M.: Specs
• Brombal, Tate: Barbalien: Red Planet
• Canales,  Juan Díaz: Blacksad (#1-3)
• Crowe, Perry: Stud and the Bloodblade
• Daniels, Ezra Claytan: Upgrade Soul
• Desmond, Roe: Black Solstice
• Fox, Leo: Prokaryote Season
• Gillen, Kieron: The Power Fantasy Volume 1
• Goto, Hiromi: Shadow Life
• H.A.: The Chromatic Fantasy
• Hickman, Jonathan: East of West (Volume 1)
• Kuper, Peter: Insectopolis
• Lemire, Jeff: Tin Stars (Descender #1)
• Lemire, Jeff: Sherlock Frankenstein and the Legion of Evil (The World of Black Hammer #1)
• Leyh, Kat: Thirsty Mermaids
• Lonergan, Jessee: Drome
• March, Guillem: Karmen
• Martin, Wendy: Castle Swimmer (Volume 1)
• Minamoto, Kazuki: The Gay Who Turned Kaiju
• Moore, Alan: Watchmen
• Nguyen, Trung Le: Angelica and the Bear Prince
• Nilsen, Anders: Tongues (Volume 1)
• O’Neill, Kay: A Song for You & I
• Paulsen, Bree: Garlic & The Vampire (Garlic #1)
• Pini, Wendy & Richard: Elfquest (Volume 1)
• Prentice-Jones, Sam: Arcana: The Lost Heirs (Arcana #1)
• Russel, Mark: Snagglepuss Chronicles
• Sakashima: The Ruthless Commander and his Reincarnated Warhorse
• Soule, Charles: Eight Billion Genies
• Todd, Donya: The Witch’s Egg
• Tynion IV, James: Wynd (Wynd 1-4)
• V, Ram: The Many Deaths of Laila Starr
• Walden, Tillie: On a Sunbeam
• Wells, Kendra: Real Hero Shit (Real Hero Shit #1)
• Wibowo, Jes and Cin: Lunar Boy
• Willingham, Bill: Fables 1-3 (Legends in Exile, Animal Farm, Storybook Love)
• Wong, Alyssa: Spirit World

Non-Speculative
(Romance Unless Otherwise Specified)

• Ashcroft, Sean: Cocky (Cocky #1)
• Bacon, John U.: The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald
• Bauer, Tal: You & Me
• Bennet, MN: Bend Him Break Him
• Hage, Dave and Marcotty, Josephine: Sea of Grass: The Conquest, Ruin, and Redemption of Nature on the American Prairie. – Nonfiction
• Hall, Alexis: Looking for Group
• Jackson, Kosoko: A Dash of Salt and Pepper
• Karpa, Mike: The Wealthy Whites of Williamsburg – contemporary family drama
• Quin, Fae: Let Your Hearts be Light (Christmas Daddies #1)
• Reid, Rachel: Game Changer (Game Changers #1)
• Reid, Rachel: Heated Rivalry (Game Changers #2)
• Reid, Rachel: Tough Guy (Game Changers #3)
• Reid, Rachel: Common Goal (Game Changers #4)
• Reid, Rachel: Role Model(Game Changers #5)
• Reid, Rachel: The Long Game (Game Changers #6)
• Simone, Kay: One Giant Leap
• Van Pelt, Shelby: Remarkably Bright Creatures – Realistic Fiction (mostly)

DNFs

• Chu, John: The Subtle Art of Folding Space
• Duane, Diane: The Door into Fire (The Tale of the Five #1)
• Fell, Blair: Disco Witches of Fire Island
• Fellman, Isaac: Notes from a Regicide
• Gil, Joamette (editor): Heartwood: Nonbinary Tales of Sylvan Fantasy
• Gratton, Tessa: The Mercy Makers (The Moon Heresies #1)
• Grecian, Alex: Red Rabbit
• Lowell, Nathan: The Wizard’s Butler
• Lyons, Jenn: The Ruin of Kings (A Chorus of Dragons #1)
• McCorkle, Erika: Merchants of Knowledge and Magic (The Pentagonal Dominion#1)
• Mehta, Tashan: Mad Sisters of Esi
• Morgan, Richard: The Steel Remains (A Land Fit For Heroes #1)
• Pechacek, Jared: The West Passage
• Poon, Jared: City of Others
• Raasch, Sara: The Entanglement of Rival Wizards (Magic and Romance #1)
• Sanderson, Brandon: Wind and Truth (Stormlight Archives #5)
• Soto Yambao, Samantha: Water Moon
• Wijesekara, Maithree: The Prince Without Sorrow (Obsidian Throne #1)