Book Review: Yellowface by R. F. Kuang

Authors June Hayward and Athena Liu were supposed to be twin rising stars: same year at Yale, same debut year in publishing. But Athena's a cross-genre literary darling, and June didn't even get a paperback release. Nobody wants stories about basic white girls, June thinks. So when June witnesses Athena's death in a freak accident,...

Favourite reads from the second half of 2022

This is a list of my most memorable reads from the second half of last year. Just one thing to note: this contains books I read then, which need not be limited to the ones that were necessarily released in that time period. View a similar list for the first half of 2022 here. I...

Review: Weyward by Emilia Hart

Three women. Five centuries. One secret.‘I had nature in my heart, she said. Like she did, and her mother before her. There was something about us – the Weyward women – that bonded us more tightly with the natural world.We can feel it, she said, the same way we feel rage, sorrow or joy.’In 2019,...

Noteworthy SFF book releases – February 2023

By no means is this exhaustive, but oh well, I tried.