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The Heartbreak Bakery by A.R. Capetta

March 29, 2022 by Zannah

Started: 3/25/22
Finished: 3/29/22

I enjoyed this book – it’s a really cute queer YA love story about a teenager in a bakery. It’s set in Austin, and the Austin-love felt a little much in the beginning, but either it settled down or I let it go – not sure which. Anyway, I will NOT return this book to the library until I have copied out nearly every recipe. They sound really really good, and I want to try them.

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Posted in: What I've Been Reading Tagged: baking, ebook, fantasy, library, love, queer, source: Tor.com, YA

No Gods, No Monsters by Cadwell Turnbull

February 8, 2022 by Zannah

Started: 2/3/22
Finished: 2/8/22

This book was a LOT. It’s the first in a series (didn’t know that when I started it), and I cannot WAIT for the next one. It was a little hard to follow, not because it didn’t grab my attention (because boy did it), but because there are a lot of characters and a lot of factions, and I wasn’t clear on all of them until the very end. It was only published four months ago, so I have NO idea when book 2 will come out, and I’m sure I will need a refresher by then. I am for sure going to read his debut novel (The Lesson) while I’m waiting.

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Posted in: What I've Been Reading Tagged: Convergence Saga, fantasy, library, monsters, physical, source: Tor.com

Little Free Library by Naomi Kritzer

November 18, 2021 by Zannah 2 Comments

Started: 11/18/21
Finished: 11/18/21

If only this were a true story! Link: https://www.tor.com/2020/04/08/little-free-library-naomi-kritzer/

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Posted in: What I've Been Reading Tagged: ebook, fantasy, Hugo nominee, Hugo packet, short story, source: trusted author

Two Truths and a Lie by Sarah Pinsker

November 17, 2021 by Zannah Leave a Comment

Started: 11/17/21
Finished: 11/17/21

Creepy and interesting, like many of her short stories. Link: https://www.tor.com/2020/06/17/two-truths-and-a-lie-sarah-pinsker/

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Posted in: What I've Been Reading Tagged: ebook, fantasy, Hugo nominee, Hugo packet, short story, source: Hugo Awards

The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo

November 15, 2021 by Zannah Leave a Comment

Started: 11/14/21
Finished: 11/15/21

I like good stories about someone realizing they had underestimated someone, or completely misunderstood who they were in the first place. Particularly when EVERYONE was wrong. Good stuff.

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Posted in: What I've Been Reading Tagged: ebook, fantasy, Hugo nominee, Hugo packet, novella, source: Hugo Awards

Come Tumbling Down by Seanan McGuire

November 12, 2021 by Zannah Leave a Comment

Started: 11/8/21
Finished: 11/12/21

Next in the Wayward Children series, nominated for a Hugo like all the others because, well, it’s good. This wasn’t my favorite, but I’m happy to see the series move forward. I like the installments that serve as backstories to characters we’ve met, too, but knowing there’s a big picture arc is satisfying to me.

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Posted in: What I've Been Reading Tagged: ebook, fantasy, Hugo nominee, Hugo packet, source: trusted author, Wayward Children

Legendborn by Tracy Deonn

November 7, 2021 by Zannah Leave a Comment

Started: 10/28/21
Finished: 11/7/21

First in a series, YA, some of it was predictable, and some of it was very not predictable, and I liked it a lot.

The only thing I wasn’t crazy about it a thing that a lot of YA books do: the characters, teenagers all, never act like teenagers. Or, not never, but even kids faced with a ton of responsibility are still going to act like kids sometimes. I don’t think these kids did. So I was occasionally taken out of the story when I remembered that, hey, this character who said he made a super-serious decision “years ago” is only 18 right now, and then it turns out he made this super-serious decision when he was 12. Uh huh.

That aside, I really liked it, and I LOVED where it took the plot.

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Posted in: What I've Been Reading Tagged: ebook, fantasy, Hugo nominee, Hugo packet, King Arthur, Legendborn series, source: Tor.com

A Night in the Lonesome October by Roger Zelazny

October 31, 2021 by Zannah Leave a Comment

Started: 10/13/21
Finished: 10/31/21

I’ve been meaning to read something, anything, by Roger Zelazny, and I just haven’t gotten around to it. An article on Tor.com pointed me to this, which is broken up into one chapter per day of the month of October. The article’s author reads it, one chapter a day, every October, so after playing a little bit of catch-up (since I didn’t start on the 1st), I did, too, and I REALLY enjoyed it. It’s easy, it’s funny, and it’s Halloween-y. I might buy it and do this every year.

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Posted in: What I've Been Reading Tagged: fantasy, library, physical, source: Tor.com

Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark

October 27, 2021 by Zannah Leave a Comment

Started: 10/26/21
Gave up: 10/27/21

I really liked the short story I read of his last year set in Cairo with a possessed tram car, and there’s a whole series there I’m excited to read, so I was bummed when I couldn’t get into this one. Mashing up Jim Crow and Klansmen with Lovecraftian monsters is a brilliant idea, but I’m a little leery of Lovecraft-related stories, and this one didn’t land for me.

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Posted in: What I've Been Reading Tagged: ebook, fantasy, gave up, Hugo nominee, Lovecraftian, novella, source: trusted author

Half a Soul by Olivia Atwater

October 26, 2021 by Zannah Leave a Comment

Started: 10/25/21
Finished: 10/26/21

Recommended to me as fantasy and manners, in a series called Regency Faerie Tales, and how could I not love it?

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Posted in: What I've Been Reading Tagged: ebook, fairy, fantasy, library, magic, period, Regency Faerie Tales, source: Bookriot

Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko

October 24, 2021 by Zannah Leave a Comment

Started: 10/20/21
Finished: 10/24/21

Slow start, but that’s based more on the formatting than the story/writing. It’s not .mobi, so the formatting isn’t perfect. Annoying!

SO EASY to get past the formatting after just a bit. Really good story, totally sucked me in, and I’m looking forward to the sequel.

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Posted in: What I've Been Reading Tagged: ebook, fantasy, Hugo nominee, magic, Raybearer, source: Hugo Awards, source: Tor.com, YA

The Unspoken Name by A.K. Larkwood

October 16, 2021 by Zannah Leave a Comment

Started: 9/30/21
Finished: 10/16/21

New fantasy series! It took me a little bit to get into it, then I was hooked, then I wasn’t sure I was going to finish it, and then I got hooked again. I can’t say whether this was just about my frame of mind or about slow parts in the book. Could be either, but the vast majority of it had my full attention, and I’m still thinking about it, and I’m excited about the next book, which – ugh – isn’t out yet.

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Posted in: What I've Been Reading Tagged: ebook, fantasy, Hugo nominee, library, magic, source: Tor.com, The Serpent Gates

A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik

September 19, 2021 by Zannah Leave a Comment

Started: 9/9/21
Finished: 9/19/21

I LOVE Naomi Novik. There’s only one book of hers I haven’t read that’s out right now, and I haven’t read it for the same reason I haven’t read that one last book of Robin McKinley’s: I don’t want to have read everything she has written.

That said, I almost quit on A Deadly Education. Wizard school (yay!) by an author I love (double yay!), but it started out so…unpleasant. So hard to understand. So not your typical wizard school book. I didn’t quit (because Naomi Novik has earned my trust), which is great because this totally weird book turned out to be awfully wonderful and I loved it and I can’t wait for the next one.

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Posted in: What I've Been Reading Tagged: fantasy, Hugo nominee, magic, physical, source: trusted author, The Scholomance, wizard school

Carpe Demon by Julie Kenner

September 5, 2021 by Zannah Leave a Comment

Started: 8/29/21
Finished: 9/5/21

Recommended by an author I like, this was a surprisingly well-written very silly start of a series about a retired demon-hunter-turned-suburban-mom who has to, surprise!, fight demons again. It was both predictable and not – some of my guesses were right and some were wrong. It’s a nice palate cleanser.

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Posted in: What I've Been Reading Tagged: Demon-Hunting Soccer Mom, demons, ebook, fantasy, library, source: Sarah Beth Durst rec

The Angel of the Crows by Katherine Addison

July 22, 2021 by Zannah Leave a Comment

Started: 7/10/21
Finished: 7/22/21

Katherine Addison’s first book*, The Goblin Emperor, is one of my new favorites. I loved it. Picking this one up was a no-brainer, and now that I have put it down, I want more. It’s a strange book – it’s Holmes and Watson, but with different names. It’s familiar mysteries, but with unfamiliar resolutions. There are familiar characters, but with supernatural twists. I wasn’t sure if I really liked it, although I enjoyed it, but I love the main friendship and I want to read more of it. So yeah, I really liked it.

*Not really her first book. Katherine Addison is a pen name for Sarah Monette, who has written other stuff. I just learned that. I have not read Sarah Monette. I will.

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Posted in: What I've Been Reading Tagged: fantasy, Holmes, mystery, physical, source: trusted author, supernatural

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

July 5, 2021 by Zannah Leave a Comment

Started: 7/3/21
Finished: 7/5/21

It’s a fantasy, it’s a mystery, it’s a contemplation of a lonely life, and it’s a really nice book.

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Posted in: What I've Been Reading Tagged: fantasy, Hugo nominee, magic, physical, source: trusted author

Midnight Riot by Ben Aaronovitch

July 3, 2021 by Zannah Leave a Comment

Started: 6/21/21
Finished: 7/3/21

This series comes up whenever anyone is talking about supernatural detectives, and people seem to like it, so I figured I’d give it a try. I liked it, and I’ll probably give it another book or two, but the main character doesn’t have much of an internal life. He gets thrown into this supernatural world, out of nowhere, and he doesn’t seem to have much reaction to it. So maybe that will improve…? Also, he (or the series) has some sexist tendencies, so if that doesn’t get better, I’m out. The mystery and story were interesting, though.

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Posted in: What I've Been Reading Tagged: ebook, fantasy, mystery, Rivers of London, source: Tor.com, supernatural

The Absolute Book by Elizabeth Knox

June 21, 2021 by Zannah Leave a Comment

Started: 6/11/21
Gave up: 6/21/21

REALLY really good, except for one interlude that slowed the whole book down, and then the last quarter, which had both too much information and not enough information. I would still recommend it. I liked it.

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Posted in: What I've Been Reading Tagged: fairy, fantasy, library, physical, source: Tor.com

Peaces by Helen Oyeyemi

June 2, 2021 by Zannah Leave a Comment

Started: 6/1/21
Gave up: 6/2/21

I like my fiction weird, and I’m happy to be dropped into an unexplained or unexplainable situation right off the bat, but this was incomprehensible to me. Two seemingly normal people dropped into a situation that immediately got super-weird, and they’re barely questioning it. Certainly not panicking like anyone else would. Am I supposed to be reading into it? Probably. Did I have the patience? I did not.

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Posted in: What I've Been Reading Tagged: fantasy, fiction, gave up, library, physical, source: browsing at the library

The Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher

May 29, 2021 by Zannah Leave a Comment

Started: 5/25/21
Finished: 5/29/21

Love T. Kingfisher. This is horror, just scary enough in the beginning and the middle that I refused to read it at night, but it got less scary after that. Very weird. In a good way.

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Posted in: What I've Been Reading Tagged: ebook, fantasy, horror, library, source: trusted author
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