The Boy and the Dog by Seishū Hase (馳 星周)

Book #17

The Boy and the Dog by Seishū Hase
My rating: 4 of 5 stars



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Star Wars: The High Republic: Convergence by Zoraida Córdova

Book #16

Convergence by Zoraida Córdova
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Following the patterns set forth with the films, Phase II of The High Republic jumps back in time, becoming the prequel to Phase I. Zoraida Córdova’s Convergence is the first adult book in this Phase, following the events of Tessa Gratton and Justina Ireland’s Path of Deceit and George Mann’s Quest for the Hidden City.

I'm having a harder time getting into the swing of this Phase. Maybe it's because it is an apparently shortened schedule of books compared to Phase I (there are only 2 rounds of books with Phase II, as opposed to the 3 in Phase I), so I feel we are being rushed in the introductions to these characters and events. This book tackles the Forever War between Eiram and E'ronoh, as the Jedi and the Republic try to help resolve the conflict and broker a peace between to the two planets.

There are a lot of characters introduced very quickly, and I found myself becoming confused as to which planet, either Eiram and E'ronoh, we were dealing with at any point. Everything coalesced fairly well at the end, but i don't think it should have taken over 2/3 of the book to finally feel like the action was finally happening.

I'll be sticking with these, because Star Wars, but I'm hoping that the followup novel, Cataclysm, is a little more engaging.

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A Puppet Scorned by Jamie Kort

Book #15

A Puppet Scorned by Jamie Kort
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Have you ever thought to yourself, “Self, what I really want to read is a slightly erotic/body horror/revenge porn. But make it sick puppets!”

Well, if by some weird twist of fate you have ever actually thought this, may I present @jamie_f_kort’s "A Puppet Scorned," a love story about Brad and Camille, sock puppets locked away in an old attic. After knitting a baby together, Brad is horrified by the unnatural creation and casts out Camille and their child. Scorned, Camille makes it her life's mission to regain Brad's love, by any means.

Yes, this is as batshit crazy as it sounds, and yet it somehow works. Despite the wackadoo premise of the story, I could imagine the horror that both Camille and Brad inflict on each other, and the visuals that Kort conjures are certainly horrific. This obviously isn't going to be for everyone, but if a little bizarro horror is your thing, and the idea that knitting needles somehow being erotic is ok with you, than you should check out this super quick read.

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The Spite House by Johnny Compton

Book #14

The Spite House by Johnny Compton
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

The Spite House by Johnny Compton (@comptonwrites), coming from @tornightfire on February 7, 2023, is a Gothic influenced ghost story about a hungry, haunted house. That's the best way I can describe it. While there are some slow burn aspects to the book, when the hauntings occur, the story quickly ramps up the action and the scare factor and things get creepy quickly.

Eric Ross and his two daughters, Dess and Stacey, are on the run from a past none of them asked for or completely understand. When the opportunity arises to make some decent money by providing evidence of the paranormal by staying at the Masson House in Degener, Texas, Eric jumps at the chance to be able to finally provide his daughters with some stability. But everyone involved, the owner of Masson House, the previous tenants, and the Ross' themselves all have secrets that they feel they need to keep, so nothing is ever as it seems. And when the house itself finally starts to play a part in the haunting, Eric knows that while he's in danger, he needs to follow through with the investigation in order to protect his daughters' futures.

Very rarely do books give me the creeps, but this one did. The descriptions of the initial hauntings and the claustrophobic nature of Masson House all add up to a feeling of pervasive dread throughout. Each chapter is told from a different character's POV; while this may sound confusing, it makes for an interesting read as we see the story unfold through the eyes of each of the characters. As everyone's secrets are laid out throughout the story, each person's motives become clear and while I thought there was going to be a lot of unanswered questions, but Compton ties everything up in a satisfying manner.

Another excellent release from Tor Nightfire! If you're a fan of ghost stories and haunted houses and don't mind a little creepiness in your book, than this is for you!

A huge thank you to @tornightfire and @netgalley for providing a digital ARC in exchange for an honest review.

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Carmilla: The First Vampire by Amy Chu & Soo Lee

Book #13

Carmilla: The First Vampire by Amy Chu
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

A modern retelling of the Gothic novella Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu, a vampire story that predates Bram Stoker's Dracula by 26 years, Amy Chu and Soo Lee's Carmilla: The First Vampire brings the story into 20th century NYC, and layers in aspects of Chinese myth and folklore. I have not read Carmilla, so I cannot comment on the faithfulness of this story to the original, but I did enjoy this for what it is: a queer murder mystery that is folded into a dark horror tale that is folded into a Sapphic love story.

Social worker Athena takes it on herself to investigate a series of murders of LGBTQ+ women, all occurring around the Chinatown nightclub Carmilla's. When she befriends the next likely victim of the killer, she finds herself not only falling for the mysterious Violet, but also finds that she's more tied to the mysterious Carmilla than she could ever believe.

Ending on something of a cliffhanger, I'll definitely be picking up the next installment. Amy Chu's writing is solid, and Soo Lee's art is perfectly dark and atmospheric. I found I enjoyed this a little more than I thought I would, to be honest, and it's piqued my interest in reading the original Carmilla to see how they compare. Recommended!

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Snow by Ronald Malfi

Book #12

Snow by Ronald Malfi
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Ronald Malfi's SNOW, an atmospheric and fast-paced horror, follows a group of strangers, Todd, Kate, and couple Fred and Nan, who become stranded at Chicago's O'Hare airport on Christmas Eve and decide to rent a car and attempt to drive through the blizzard to get to their various destinations in Iowa. Predictably, this does not go well and the four find themselves at the mercy of the elements after Todd loses control of the car and crashes into a snowbank. They travel on foot to the nearby town of Woodson, only to discover that the town looks like it has been destroyed in a war zone.

They discover that most of the town's inhabitants have been killed by beings who are either in the snow or composed of the snow, and once these beings take control of a person, they become a zombie-like cannibal, eating anyone they can find. The group make their way through the town, fending off the creatures and trying to survive long enough to figure a way out of the town.

SNOW is my first book by Malfi, and while I didn't *love* it, I will definitely be reading more by him. I had some problems with his descriptions of characters (particularly characters we aren't meant to like, focusing on their weight and physical appearance as the basic means for us to not like them), and he seemed to have a hard time pinning down exactly what was going on with the creatures attacking the town. I feel like he had a really good idea here, but couldn't quite figure out how to pull it all off, and just ran with it anyway. This does create a sense of confusion in the book for both the reader and the characters in the story, as we're left as much in the dark as they are, but I do like to have something more than the story just sort of ending, with no real resolution to what happened. I believe that this was one of his earlier works and I can see the potential of a really great author here, so I think given the time since, he has hopefully honed his craft a little better. If you haven't read him before, I don't know that I'd say SNOW is the book to start with, but it's still a fun, small town horror story that fans of Stephen King's books in the same vein might enjoy.

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Lost in the Moment and Found by Seanan McGuire

Book #11

Lost in the Moment and Found by Seanan McGuire
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Lost in the Moment and Found, book 8 in @seananmcguire’s Wayward Children series from @tordotcompub, takes us back to a portal world, this time the Shop Where the Lost Things Go, and Antoinette’s story of how she discovered her world.

Running away from a life she didn’t ask for, Antsy (Antoinette) finds a Door, this one leading to the Shop Where the Lost Things Go, and being lost herself, she finds a home here and begins to help in the running of the Shop. What she isn’t told, however, is the cost that helping run the Shop will take on her, and she learns that even when adults aren’t actively, openly taking things from you, they can still be hurting you. This was a heavy book, tackling a lot of uncomfortable topics, and the first to come with a trigger warning. I appreciate McGuire’s choices in this book, and her delicate handling of topics that can be very indelicate and not easy to talk about.

However, this book fell just a little short for me from the others in the series. I think I’ve figured out why this and Across the Green Grass Fields didn’t quite work for me like the rest of the books: we’re being introduced to characters that we don’t necessarily have an emotional attachment to. AtGGF introduced us to Regan, an entirely brand new character, and here we’re given Antoinette’s story, a character who was only mentioned in passing in Where the Drowned Girls Go. Without any previous attachment to these characters, I have a hard time connecting with them and their world. Also, there was a lot of “telling” in this book, as there is a story within the story that takes of the Shop and how it came to be; I felt this could have been spread out a little in the overall shape of the story, instead of being more or less an expository drop towards the end of the book.

Even so, McGuire always delivers when it comes to her Wayward Children, and I’m hoping that since we have her story now, this means Antoinette will be playing a larger role in the overarching arc, since she grew into such an interesting character in this book.

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Lost in the Moment and Found by Seanan McGuire

Book #10

Lost in the Moment and Found by Seanan McGuire
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Lost in the Moment and Found, book 8 in @seananmcguire’s Wayward Children series from @tordotcompub, takes us back to a portal world, this time the Shop Where the Lost Things Go, and Antoinette’s story of how she discovered her world.

Running away from a life she didn’t ask for, Antsy (Antoinette) finds a Door, this one leading to the Shop Where the Lost Things Go, and being lost herself, she finds a home here and begins to help in the running of the Shop. What she isn’t told, however, is the cost that helping run the Shop will take on her, and she learns that even when adults aren’t actively, openly taking things from you, they can still be hurting you. This was a heavy book, tackling a lot of uncomfortable topics, and the first to come with a trigger warning. I appreciate McGuire’s choices in this book, and her delicate handling of topics that can be very indelicate and not easy to talk about.

However, this book fell just a little short for me from the others in the series. I think I’ve figured out why this and Across the Green Grass Fields didn’t quite work for me like the rest of the books: we’re being introduced to characters that we don’t necessarily have an emotional attachment to. AtGGF introduced us to Regan, an entirely brand new character, and here we’re given Antoinette’s story, a character who was only mentioned in passing in Where the Drowned Girls Go. Without any previous attachment to these characters, I have a hard time connecting with them and their world. Also, there was a lot of “telling” in this book, as there is a story within the story that takes of the Shop and how it came to be; I felt this could have been spread out a little in the overall shape of the story, instead of being more or less an expository drop towards the end of the book.

Even so, McGuire always delivers when it comes to her Wayward Children, and I’m hoping that since we have her story now, this means Antoinette will be playing a larger role in the overarching arc, since she grew into such an interesting character in this book.

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Across the Green Grass Fields by Seanan McGuire

Book #9

Across the Green Grass Fields by Seanan McGuire
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I won’t lie, @seananmcguire’s Across the Green Grass Fields from @tordotcompub, the sixth book in her Wayward Children series, is my least favorite of the series. Perhaps it’s because this is a complete standalone novella, not attached to any of the previous narrative. Perhaps it’s because I feel McGuire hits the inclusiveness nail a little too firmly on the head this time, making it feel less natural in the telling than her previous books (at the same time, an intersex MC for the win!). Perhaps it’s a little too much middle school love for all-things-horse. Perhaps it’s just me, and this story simply doesn’t resonate with me the way the others have, and that’s ok. Not every book is for every person. It still says something that even with a book that I feel is the weakest in the series, it’s message and telling are still powerful, even if it’s not for me.

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Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett

Book #8

Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Well, this is just freaking delightful. Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries by @heather_fawcett, releasing this Tuesday from @delreybooks, is the start of a cozy new fantasy series following the exploits of plucky yet curmudgeonly Emily Wilde on her adventures to write the world’s first encyclopedia of the Folk.

Having discovered the Fae are real, the science of dryadology has blossomed, and one of the youngest scientists in this new field of study is Emily Wilde, who has made it her mission to catalogue all the myriad species of Fae in the world. Her latest expedition takes her to the frozen land of Hrafnsvik, in search of the Hidden Ones, a heretofore undiscovered Folk. Preferring the company of her dog, Shadow, and her books, Emily wastes no time in unintentionally alienating the local townsfolk, until her colleague, Wendell Bambleby, arrives more or less unannounced and charms them with his wit and good looks.

Through a series of (mis)adventures, Emily and Bambleby discover the mystery behind the Hidden Ones, rescue a handful of abducted villagers, and Emily finds herself more involved in her investigations into the Folk than she ever thought possible. She also may find that making friends may be easier than she had imagined.

I quite enjoyed this introduction to Emily Wilde and the eclectic cast of characters she has surrounded herself with. Fawcett’s writing is clever, telling the story via Emily’s journal entries, giving us a first person view into how she views the world around her. The descriptions of the Folk are fantastic in all their beauty and brutality; Fawcett keeps to the idea that they can’t always be trusted.

I know I’ll be picking up a copy of this when it’s released on Tuesday and am already looking forward to Emily’s next adventure.

A huge thank you to @netgalley & @delreybooks for an eARC in exchange for a review.

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Breath of the Giant by Tom Aureille

Book #7

Breath of the Giant by Tom Aureille
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Breath of the Giant by Tom Aureille from Fairsquare Comics follows sisters Iris and Sophia as they travel to the North, home of Giants who can bring the deceased back to life with their breath, hoping to resurrect their mother and reunite their family.

There’s a lot to unpack in this short tale. First off is the fact that in order to resurrect someone, a Giant must die and their breath collected, raising the question, is it ok to kill one being to bring another back to life? Secondly, does the person who is being resurrected even want to come back to life? Just because the person(s) left behind miss them, perhaps the deceased is at peace with their situation.

There’s quite a bit glossed over as well, for instance the girls’ magical powers that they seem to have inherited from their father. Where did this power come from? Why do only some people have it? Other than a convenient plot point at times, there doesn’t seem to be much reason for this power to exist.

Problems aside, this is still a strong story about the bonds of sisterhood and family, and learning to understand and accept the loss of a loved one. I feel like this could have benefited from being a little longer and some of the plot points fleshed out, but overall it’s still a solid story.

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Come Tumbling Down by Seanan McGuire

Book #6

Come Tumbling Down by Seanan McGuire
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Holy shit, Seanan McGuire doesn't disappoint in the fifth volume of her Wayward Children series. Picking up Jack and Jill's story from their introduction in Every Heart a Doorway and their backstory in Down Among the Sticks and Bones, we are returned to the Moors this time, and we are given a much wider view of this dark, terrifying, and beautiful world. This time out, there is another quest, even though Eleanor West continually forbids them, as Kade, Christopher, Cora, and Sumi help Jack take back something dear that Jill has stolen from her.

The continuing beauty of McGuire's Wayward Children, apart from her always fantastic narrative, is her inclusiveness with her characters. She makes such an important part of what makes these characters themselves, yet it doesn't feel forced. Sometimes I feel like authors have a checklist that they use to make sure they tick off all the important or proper points to show representation, and while this is needed in so many ways, it still comes off clumsy. McGuire writes her characters with such ease and understanding, it simply feels natural.

There is so much under the surface of Come Tumbling Down: what makes a person uniquely that person, and how devastating it can be when something happens to make that person not feel like themselves, however insignificant it may appear to others; how important it is to have people understand that every single person is unique, and surrounding yourself with people that understand you for who you are can make you so much stronger. It's OK to need help and to ask for it.

These characters are so near and dear to my heart. Sumi is becoming a favorite; her no bullshit view on life hides such a powerful caring for those around her, I think she's become one of the strongest characters in the series. And of course, Jack and Jill... I adore these girls and their crazy duality. I want to always see more of Kade, he's just so interesting to me.

As with all the books in this series, there is an overwhelming sense of hope throughout, but there is always a sense of sadness and loss that underlines this hope. We lose people in our lives, things are taken from us, life takes unexpected turns, but we can still find our way out of that loss.

This will always be the series that I push on my friends. I have reread the entire series before the release of each book next year, so some of the earlier are like dear friends I'm catching up with after a while. Another part of the magic of McGuire's writing: even after multiple readings, these books have not lost any of their magic.

I dearly hope that McGuire can continue writing these stories for years to come. There is so much potential, so many stories, so many characters that I want to learn more about: Kade & Christopher, Sumi's continuing story, more worlds to explore, Eleanor's finally going home. It will be a sad day when these stories come to their close, but it will also have been one hell of an adventure getting there.

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In an Absent Dream by Seanan McGuire

Book #5

In an Absent Dream by Seanan McGuire
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Seanan McGuire's Wayward Children series of books gets better with each addition, with the latest, In an Absent Dream, by far being the strongest story to date. Following the established every other book sequence, this volume tells Lundy's portal story, as she finds her door to the Goblin Market. McGuire offers up some serious ideas to ponder, such as idea of fair value for everything and what that means to either the recipient or the giver. It's some heavy ideas, and after finishing Absent Dream, I had to take some time to really mull over the notions that are put forth, and it really made me think about my own interactions with those around me and how the idea of fair value can applied to our real world.

McGuire doesn't just write one hell of an amazing book, but she pushes us, the readers, to consider how we can actually be better people by understanding how we can, and should, be fair to each other. It's really quite a remarkable book. And her writing; it's more beautiful with every book. There are so many potential stories to be told, I hope deep down that she never leaves this series and continues to offer us such amazing books forever.

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Beneath the Sugar Sky by Seanan McGuire

Book #4

Beneath the Sugar Sky by Seanan McGuire
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Beneath the Sugar Sky, the third book in @seananmcguire’s Wayward Children series from @tordotcompub, finds us back at Eleanor West’s School for Wayward Children and dealing directly with ramifications of events from the first book, when Sumi’s daughter Rini comes looking for her mother, who has been inconveniently murdered before Rini was even conceived. Despite Eleanor’s rules of “No Solicitations. No Visitors. No Quests.”, Sumi’s friends embark to help find her soul and set things right in the land of Confection, before reality catches up to Rini and realizes she shouldn’t exist anymore.

Being able to see a portal world through the eyes of the contemporary students was a treat, but the real beauty of this book is the students coming together and creating their own true, found family. Having a found family of my own whom I love more than I can say, I can relate to these kids and the love they feel for each other, despite their occasional differences. McGuire continues to tackle subjects that I wish I’d been able to read about when I was younger and this is one of the many reasons I push this series whenever anyone asks me for a book recommendation.

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Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire

Book #3

Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Down Among the Sticks and Bones, the remarkable follow-up to Seanan McGuire's Every Heart a Doorway, tells the story of twin sisters Jack & Jill, and how they found their door, and how they were forced back to the real world. Raised to fit the perfect ideals and preconceived notions of children that their parents have, Jacqueline and Jillian are never allowed to be children. They are told how to behave, how to dress, how to act, but never how to love or be loved. One day, the sisters decide to do something dangerous; they are going to break a rule and play in their grandmother's former room (Gemma Lou being the only person in their entire world who tried to encourage them to be individuals). They find an old steamer trunk in her room that contains costume jewelry and outfits for dress up, and underneath the clothes they find a stairwell in the trunk that shouldn't be there. Determined not to ruin their adventure, the sisters decide to follow the stairs down, their 12 year old minds not quite comprehending the impossibility of this event. At the bottom of the stairs they find a door, and that door holds a sign that reads, Be Sure.

This door leads them to The Moors, a dark and sinister world of vampires and werewolves, mad scientists and other things that go bump in the night. Here, the sisters discover their true selves. Here, they also discover that they have choices, and those choices eventually come with consequences.

Most portal fantasies always have a darker tone under their magic and whimsy, but on The Moors, all the magic and whimsy is stripped away to reveal just how dangerous and stark some worlds can be. Brutal and fierce, this book is the perfect follow up/companion to Every Heart a Doorway.

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Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire

Book #2

< Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This is such a fantastic idea for a story: a "home" for those who have come back from a portal world (think Wonderland, Narnia, or Oz), but can't accept that they are unable to go back to that portal world. Eleanor West (who has a portal all her own, and knows where it is, and is just biding her time until she can return) runs such a home, taking in the children who can't cope with the normalcy of the "real" world and who yearn to return to their true "homes." Some do find their way back, but many don't, and are in constant turmoil as a result.

Nancy is one of those children. When she found her door to the Halls of the Dead, she thought she'd found her true home. But when the Lord of the Dead sends Nancy back to the real world so that she can be certain that she wants to stay in the Halls of the Dead, she is unable to re-acclimate herself, and her parents send her to Eleanor West's School as a last resort.

As the new girl in the school, Nancy feels immediately out of place but is able to make friends with her roommate Sumi, Kade, a young man banished from his portal world, and Jack, who was apprenticed to a mad scientist. After one of the students is found murdered, suspicion immediately falls on Nancy as the newest arrival, but through the help of her friends they are able to discover the identity of the true murderer.

This is the fourth time I’ve read this book, as I do a complete reread when a new book is released in the series, and I’m still struck by the power of McGuire’s writing. The books are sinister and dark and beautiful and I can’t recommend them enough.

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The Alien Legion: A Grey Day to Die by Carl Potts, et al

Book #1

The Alien Legion: A Grey Day to Die by Carl Potts
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

One of my annual traditions for the new year is to spend January 1 reflecting back on the previous year, taking stock of everything that went well and what went wrong in the old year, thinking on what I want to do differently in the coming year. I then spend the rest of the day reading one of the new books that I got for Christmas.

This year, my bestie picked up a copy of The Alien Legion: A Grey Day To Die for me, a graphic novel that I remember reading way back when it was released in 1986. I hadn’t thought of that book since, until I saw it hanging on the wall on a local comic shop. Brad bought it while I was standing right there, totally oblivious to the whole thing. 😂

The Alien Legion is a comic series created by Carl Potts, Alan Zelenetz, and Frank Cirocco for @marvel’s Epic Comics imprint in the 80s. The basic idea is the French Legion in space, and at the time, this was a fairly edgy comic for me to be reading. This particular volume is a side story to the main series, with the Legion taking on an assassination attempt that doesn’t exactly go to plan.

I’m happy to say that the story has held up, and really makes me want to track down the rest of the original series and give it a read again.

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