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The biggest problem with time travel, as Douglas Adams pointed out, is the grammar.

How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying by Django Wexler

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Davi is stuck in time loop you guys! She keeps on waking up in a fantasy world, being told she is destined to save everyone from the Dark Lord—and she’s been failing constantly! For a millennium! It’s been really wearing on her; Davi’s kept count of every single go around the merry-go-round. Every single death, every single time: I slip into the sweet embrace of death with a contented sigh. So long, #237. Go fuck a porcupine. It’s a bit like The Legend of Zelda: […]

When They Don’t Come Out the Other Side.

Wormhole: My journey into the dark heart of alternative medicine by Hannah McElhinney

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Wormhole is a book that manages to pack a significant amount into its rather slim page count. Author Hannah McElhinney’s cousin, Laura, travelled from Australia to Malaysia back in 2022 for a ‘medical procedure.’ After Lauren went radio silent for a few days, her family was contacted by a mysterious friend who none of them had ever heard of, telling them that there had been complications with her treatment and that she could not be brought out from under anaesthetic.  Within days, members of Lauren’s […]

Dear Faerie: This is Why Children Go No-Contact With Their Parents

A Divided Duty by Seanan McGuire

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Trust the faeries to bring on the soap opera messes. One of the consequences of being both incredibly long lived—or even effectivly immortal—and being so variant that you’re more of a species cluster than a true cohesive group is that when the interpersonal dramas hit, they really hit. If you constructed a push-pin map that covered October Daye’s friends, family and allegiances at the start of the series and now, at book twenty, you would be shocked at how things have changed.  But let’s take […]

Let’s Show The Buggers That We Will Rule This Place Again From Their Waste

Praiseworthy by Alexis Wright

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Have you ever gotten the feeling that here, in the time we find ourselves in, that perhaps everything is just a bit to much? Life is an omnishambles and you can’t bare to open the news because you can’t stand to see the news; is anyone going to care about the threats of climate change or emerging pandemics; does anyone really care about the future we are leaving our children? Forget the future, does the government care about children right here, right now? Or is […]

Let’s Take a Hammer To It.

Dead Hand Rule by Max Gladstone

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No one can write a multi-character pile up the same way Max Gladstone does.  Back in 2024, I reviewed the second book in his Craft Wars series, Wicked Problems, which marked the start of the Craft World’s Infinity War Moment. Nearly every man woman and dog (or snake) that we had crossed paths with previously all managed to cross paths with each other. And it was quite explosive. Dead Hand Rule is the direct continuation of the events of Wicked Problems. All the great powers […]

I Thought There’d be More Unicorn.

The Unicorn Hunters by Katherine Arden

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Arden has returned to mixing historical fiction with fantasy again. This time insead of medieval Russia, Arden is taking inspiration from the life of the last heiress of Brittany—before France married her off to force a union between the two crowns. The historical Anne of Brittany didn’t exactly have the happiest of lives, but maybe in retelling, things may go differently? The first half of the book did an excellent job pulling me in: Anne is in a precarious position; she knows France is trying to […]



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