Recent Reads: Bitterburn by Ann Aguirre – I loved this, too. BITTERBURN is another Beauty and the Beast retelling, and look if I can find one more to read* in the next week or so I’ll be feeling a trifecta of joy over BatB stories. :D This one’s purely fantasy, not modern at all, and has multiple twists I ADORED, not the least of which is that our Beauty takes herself to the Beast under her own volition, which is always a thing I like to see in BatB stories.…
Recent Reads: Rose & Thunder by Lilith Saintcrow – I loved this. ROSE & THUNDER is a modern retelling of Beauty and the Beast, and look, I’ll be honest, you have to really fuck it up for me to not like a BatB retelling. Lili is not an author prone to fucking things up, and she loves BatB as much as I do, so… yeah, I loved this. The setting is more or less the real world. It was published in 2015 and sort of feels like it’s set around…
Recent Reads: The Keeper’s Six by Kate Elliott – I loved this! Aside from an awareness that Kate had, at some point in the what-feels-fairly-distant-now past, taken up the mantle of the idea of writing a protagonist who was a mom, I didn’t have any idea what to expect from THE KEEPER’S SIX, and I was enthralled and fascinated by the world and story all the way through. It’s a CRAZY complex world (which, well: you do know Kate Elliott, right? :)) and lands squarely in the middle of SFF…
Recent Reads: The Angela Marchmont Mysteries (Kobo || Amazon (affiliate) || B&N) God almighty, I haven’t done any recent reads posts in nearly a year, which is crazy because I’ve actually BEEN reading. I’ve burned through this entire series in the past couple of weeks. Very enjoyable, if you like 1920s-era cozies. In fact, in the past year, I’ve read almost everything Clara Benson has written, and they’re all good fun. I’d recommend starting with the Angela Marchmont books, which I didn’t. I in fact read the Freddy Pilkington-Soames Adventures…
…but only books one and two, because three isn’t out until next year, :sobs: :) These are by Invisible Library author Genevieve Cogman, who thought “What if Scarlet Pimpernel, but with vampires?” What results is a rampage through revolutionary-era France with our lead character, Eleanor, a maid in a vampire’s estate, being swept into the Pimpernel’s cadre due to Reasons, and her gradual emotional and intellectual journey from the unquestioning “of course the world is ordered as it should be” to “waaaaiiiiiit a minute,” and it’s a goddamn delight. Genevieve,…