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tellitslantReading Wednesday! I have some content!
what I just finished:
Seanan McGuire's new InCryptid novel, That Ain't Witchcraft, came out last week, so I re-read its immediate prequel and then picked the new one up. I had trouble getting into this series originally, but I really enjoy them now. It's about a family of cryptozoologists who work with 'unnatural' creatures ranging from frogs with feathers to bigfoots and chupacabras, trying to keep them safe, and their vendetta against the people who just want to purge the world of 'monsters.' Like other of Seanan's work, the world gets much deeper and the stakes get much higher the further along in the series we get. Fun, heartrending, light, and can't-put-down, all at once.
The Brightsiders by Jen Wilde popped up from my holds queue and I have no memory of putting it on there. It's a YA novel about a very queer group of teenagers who form a hit band, and then there are romance entanglements. Definitely a kind of book I wish I'd had as a kid.
A Fatal Obsession by Faith Martin is a murder mystery set in 1950s Oxford, starring a WPC and a coroner thrown together to Investigate. This was nicely twisty and did a good job with multiple viewpoints. I will read the sequels. Very much of its genre.
"The Lady Astronaut of Mars" by Mary Robinette Kowal is a novelette - I don't often read shorter books, but this is the intro to a series I'm interested in, about, gasp, lady astronauts in space. This was very good but actually quite depressing. I am looking forward to the other books - they seem to be effectively Hidden Figures but sci-fi, and possibly (though I am not certain) less Black.
what I'm reading now:
A Study in Honor by Claire O'Dell. This is a near-future, slightly sci-fi exploration of 'what if Holmes and Watson were Black and American,' and Watson, at least, is queer. I think I just picked this one up this morning. Definitely enjoying it so far!
what I'm reading next:
My other current loan is A Room Swept White by Sophie Hannah, which I think is another British Murder Mystery (I do love them a lot), so unless somethign else interesting rears its head, probably that!
How about you?
what I just finished:
Seanan McGuire's new InCryptid novel, That Ain't Witchcraft, came out last week, so I re-read its immediate prequel and then picked the new one up. I had trouble getting into this series originally, but I really enjoy them now. It's about a family of cryptozoologists who work with 'unnatural' creatures ranging from frogs with feathers to bigfoots and chupacabras, trying to keep them safe, and their vendetta against the people who just want to purge the world of 'monsters.' Like other of Seanan's work, the world gets much deeper and the stakes get much higher the further along in the series we get. Fun, heartrending, light, and can't-put-down, all at once.
The Brightsiders by Jen Wilde popped up from my holds queue and I have no memory of putting it on there. It's a YA novel about a very queer group of teenagers who form a hit band, and then there are romance entanglements. Definitely a kind of book I wish I'd had as a kid.
A Fatal Obsession by Faith Martin is a murder mystery set in 1950s Oxford, starring a WPC and a coroner thrown together to Investigate. This was nicely twisty and did a good job with multiple viewpoints. I will read the sequels. Very much of its genre.
"The Lady Astronaut of Mars" by Mary Robinette Kowal is a novelette - I don't often read shorter books, but this is the intro to a series I'm interested in, about, gasp, lady astronauts in space. This was very good but actually quite depressing. I am looking forward to the other books - they seem to be effectively Hidden Figures but sci-fi, and possibly (though I am not certain) less Black.
what I'm reading now:
A Study in Honor by Claire O'Dell. This is a near-future, slightly sci-fi exploration of 'what if Holmes and Watson were Black and American,' and Watson, at least, is queer. I think I just picked this one up this morning. Definitely enjoying it so far!
what I'm reading next:
My other current loan is A Room Swept White by Sophie Hannah, which I think is another British Murder Mystery (I do love them a lot), so unless somethign else interesting rears its head, probably that!
How about you?
