Rose works by day as a newspaper reporter. By night, she runs someone else’s speakeasy. She’s not without dreams: she wants her own gin joint, wants to be her own boss, wants to get out from under the thumbs of the cruel, sexist, ambitious men who think they know all about her. In fact, they […]
Read more "Gin Joints and Magic Nights: Desideria Mesa’s Bindle Punk Bruja"Just after finding a way to embrace her feared heritage and join the society of Otherworld creatures hidden outside of normal human interactions, Arden Finch became a Christ-like figure, a unifier of the djinn, werewolves, vampires, elves, and whatnot. It is not a role she wants, but it’s one she has accepted. Unfortunately, she still […]
Read more "A Delicious Stew of Anxiety, Suspense, and a Dollop of Romance: Whitney Hill’s Eldritch Sparks"Evelyn Wang (Michelle Yeoh) is stuck in a laundromat, married to a spineless optimist Waymond Wang (Ke Huy Quan), mother to a constantly angry daughter Joy (Stephanie Hsu), and a daughter herself to a demanding father Gong Gong (James Hong) who is visiting from China. She hates to mention her daughter’s lesbian girlfriend Becky (Tallie […]
Read more "Sometimes You Eat the Bagel, and Sometimes the Bagel Eats You: Everything Everywhere All At Once"For their fourth and (as of this writing, at least) final excursion into the world of the Tensorate, Neon Yang delivers a brief novella length work about the antagonist’s story, Sanao Hekate’s rise to power and prominence as The Protector. However, the words are not her own. Instead, they belong to a character who would […]
Read more "A Crooked Foundation Leads to a Slanted Building: The Ascent to Godhood"This is another Cairo, a place that has risen to power long before the novel opens in the year 1912, due to the return of magic, the djinn, and the rise of strange technologies. This is a city to rival the great ones at the turn of the twentieth century. In some ways, it is […]
Read more "He Is Returned: P. Djèlí Clark’s A Master of Djinn"When the Head Abbott Sung approached the Protector about payment for services his Grand Monastery rendered in the defense of the nation, he expected a grown child to join his ranks to learn the ways of the Monastery’s pugilism and mystical arts. He did not anticipate receiving a pair of newborn twins. However, the Protector […]
Read more "Willful and Free: Neon Yang’s The Black Tides of Heaven"
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