Read on for shorter reviews of two very different books!

Social Deduction / Mild Horror / Peril Cymera Festival is in full swing, but something odd is happening in the games hall. A cry goes out. A storyteller is dead and it can only mean one thing. A dem...

It's been a while since I've posted, but I've read a lot of good/great books since then. So here are some reviews of the ones I can best remember.

As promised, the slightly late update to my 2025 goal progress. It's mostly going well!

From Jenn Lyons - Get Ready for Full Negative - A Novel

Shroud is a claustrophobic xeno-sci-fi survival story, with additional themes of alien intelligence and inter-species communication (themes fans of Adrian Tchaikovsky surely love). It's a strong entry into the genre that features a wildly imaginative setting inimical to human life.

I'm breaking format a little bit this year! For the last two or three years, I've split my goals into three categories - general goals, author goals and specific book goals. This past year, while I did fairly well with my goals, I did start to feel the strain of the sheer amount of books meeting my goals would require, versus the amount of books I've been reading (keeping in mind that I also do r/fantasy book bingo, which is a further 25 books that may or may not match up to those goals).

Welcome to my End of Year Review, where I will muddle along about the books that I've read this year.

It's the end of the year, so this notes my final goal updates for this year, encompassing the last three months, as well as the year as a whole.

It's another top ten list to round out the year, this time highlighting my favourite books read this year. This time I'm doing my best to only select one book per author or series. It's a little early, but the books I'm reading now aren't likely to make it into my top ten this time (if they surprise me I'll fit them into the next year's list!)

Songs for the Shadows by Cheryl S. Ntumy is the first novella in the Sauutiverse, and takes the worldbuilding done previously to weave a story of a woman fleeing a grief she never knew what to do w…

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