This popped up as a recommendation for me several times on Facebook and Amazon (apparently our AI overlords know that I love sci-fi romance!). So when I saw it was finally released, I couldn’t resist picking it up. While it’s overall a very enjoyable first addition to the series, there were also several things that didn’t quite work for me. Vesper works in R&D for a corporation run by a powerful Regal family, one of the elites of the Imperium. While she’s full of ideas for everything from improving brewmakers to weapons, a power hungry ex stole most of herRead the Post
Review: The Reinvented Heart anthology
I’ll be honest, that cover completely caught my eye, and when I saw this anthology had stories from Naomi Kritzer, Seanan McGuire and JANE YOLEN!!!! I couldn’t resist. The overarching theme is that of relationships in science fiction – romantic, familial, or platonic – with all the stories written by female or nonbinary authors. It’s divided into three unequal sections. The first section “Hearts” has the most stories (unsurprising given the theme) and revolves around love, mostly of the romantic type. “Hands”, the next section, deals more with actions, whether that’s building communities or some seriously dysfunctional family dynamics. “Minds”,Read the Post
Review: Know It in the Dark – Skye Kilaen
I loved the first book in this sapphic slow-burn scifi series and I couldn’t wait to get my hands on this one! This is the second novella in the series and must be read in order, so if you haven’t read If I Were a Weapon yet, get on that! Given that, note that there’s spoilers for the first book in my review. When we last left Deneve and Jolie, they’d narrowly escaped from an armed force that seemed intent on kidnapping Deneve. But even more terrifying, their nanites seemed to work together to get them out of the situation, somehowRead the Post
Review: If I Were a Weapon – Skye Kilaen
I’m the sort of person who thinks the world always needs more sapphic sci-fi, so when I realized the author of Glorious Day was writing a near-future one? Immediate grabby hands. Six months ago, alien ships suddenly appeared all over the world, obliterating whatever used to be there. The aliens died almost immediately but the ships released clouds of nanites. The majority of people were unaffected, but some collapsed and then, when they woke up from their comas, developed new powers, from the ability to detect specific scents to being able to find water. No one knows why the aliensRead the Post
Review: Drunk on All Your Strange New Words – Eddie Robson
For whatever reason, I love books about alien linguistics. Not necessarily first contact, but more in terms of the pitfalls and cultural quirks of learning an alien language and then interacting with those aliens, so when I saw that this book featured a linguist I jumped on it. The quote on the book calls it “weird” and well, yes, this is definitely a quirky mix of science fiction wrapped up in a murder mystery. “Now everyone will think she can’t cope with the demands of her job, just because she fell off a balcony.” In a future New York CityRead the Post
Review: Oaths of Legacy – Emily Skrutskie
I wasn’t a big fan of Gal in the last book, so when I heard this one would be from his POV? Well, I had my reservations. Luckily, while I spent most of the book wanting to smack Gal upside the head, I also very much enjoyed it. This book contains definite spoilers for Bonds of Brass, so be warned! “It never would have worked,” I tell him. “It took me a while to understand it, but . . . I got there.” I got there the moment he claimed his bloodright. There are no soft wars to be waged here.Read the Post
Review: Dark Minds – Michelle Diener
I very much enjoyed the last two books in the series, so when I needed a break from some heavier material, I picked this one up. Sure, it’s not particularly complicated in the plot or characterization department, but it’s fun and engrossing! This is the third in the series and I wouldn’t recommend reading it as a standalone as a lot of the world building relies on you already knowing the events of the past two books. Cam was expecting a routine mission to interview the newly found Earth woman. Instead, his crew gets abducted and shoved into a prisonRead the Post
Review: Under Fortunate Stars – Ren Hutchings
I picked this up because of the gorgeous cover, and I’m glad I did! It’s a really good, extremely satisfying time travel space opera. “This is too strange to be a coincidence. It’s all connected somehow,” she said. “The engine problem, the Rift, that distress call… it’s all linked. And we need to figure out how if we want to get out of here.” The Gallion, a corporate science ship, and its skeleton crew has been pressed into service to ferry a Felen ambassador to a conference when they suddenly end up in a null space where their engines areRead the Post
Review: Dark Deeds – Michelle Diener
I very much enjoyed the first book in this series (AIs! Aliens! And a dash of romance!) so of course I immediately borrowed the next one. It’s both very similar and very different from the first book, but I still had a great time reading it. Grih battleship captain Hal is not having a good day. After pursuing a Krik raiding party onto a Garmman trading ship, they discover another human – though thankfully this one doesn’t seem to come with a Class 5 like Rose. Fiona’s been kidnapped, enslaved and abused, and the chance to be rescued by peopleRead the Post
Review: Dark Horse – Michelle Diener
I’m not usually a fan of alien abduction books, but I originally picked this up back in 2020 and it was absolute brain catnip. Watching these characters “dealing with a crisis, wrapped in a disaster, surrounded by a mystery” was ridiculously fun, so when I heard the final book in the series was coming out, I decided to dive back in and read the whole thing. Dav, captain of a Grih exploration ship, doesn’t know what to think when he encounters a Class 5 Tecran ship deep in Grih space, and he’s even more perplexed to board it to findRead the Post
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