Ghosts, Monsters and Demons of India by Rakesh Khanna; J. Furcifer Bhairav. 5/5 This is an excellent and fun guide to ghosts, monsters, and demons of India, complete with chatty definitions and stories, variant lore, and much more. It’s great …
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Inanna by Emily H. Wilson. 2/5 I understand what Wilson is trying to do here, to tell the story of Inanna and the gods and demi-gods of Mesopotamia, like Gilgamesh. But the characters mostly don’t have a lot of personality, …
Pink Moon by Roshan James. 1/5 The concept sounded interesting but the poetry just isn’t good. It’s a trite and formulaic and boring. Just a Fika by Beck Erixson. 1/5 So, you’ve got a ghost grandma who’s intent on fixing …
Bread and Circus by Airea D. Matthews. 3/5 There is some truly excellent poetry in this volume, poetry that is personal and moving and expressive. There’s a lot of erasure poetry using texts related to capitalism and finance and regulation …
You or Someone You Love by Hannah Matthews. 5/5 A beautifully written and compassionate chronicle of abortion care in America–who gets abortions, who doesn’t or isn’t allowed to, who the caregivers are, what their own abortion stories are. As an …
Transmogrify!: 14 Fantastical Tales of Trans Magic by g. haron davis. 3/5 A much-needed anthology of 14 stories about magic trans and nb teens–teens who find their magic, are exiled for their magic, use their magic for good, use their …
A History of the Island by Eugene Vodolazkin. 4/5 In preparation for this novel, I read the author’s previous epic work, Laurus. As some reviewers have already mentioned, this is a continuation of that novel, and the author’s storytelling style …
The Fairy Bargains of Prospect Hill by Rowenna Miller.3/5 You know, from the very first pages, what the bargains are going to do, and who’s going to have to pay for them. So you spend the first 60% of the …
Without Children by Peggy O’Donnell Heffington. 4/5 This is a well-researched and interesting read about the many reasons people–particularly ciswomen and some transmen–do not have children–economic, physical, because of climate change, more. As a woman who is childfree by choice, …
Apparently I missed posting a number of NetGalley reviews written in 2021 for books being published in 2022. Apologies! The Gravity of Existence by Christina Sng. 5/5 An absolutely brilliant collection of tiny poems, each on a world or person …