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Ember Hearth's books

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Jeanne Thornton: A/S/L (2025, Dead Ink)
Miranda Mundt: Muted
Tasha Suri: Isle in the Silver Sea (AudiobookFormat, 2025, Orbit)

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Elly Blue: This Is Your Bike on Plants (2024, Microcosm Publishing)

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Haden Cross: The Uncontinented Stars (Paperback, 2025)
Margaret Killjoy: A Country of Ghosts (Paperback, 2021, AK Press)
R. E. Katz: And Then the Gray Heaven (2021, Dzanc Books)

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finished reading A/S/L by Jeanne Thornton

Jeanne Thornton: A/S/L (2025, Dead Ink) No rating

A transformational, transformative story about video games, three queer friends, and the code(s) they learn …

This book made me want to make art and dm my friends and run into the woods to never be seen again and devote myself wholly to something beyond myself and cry and cry and cry. This book understands me better than I understand myself. I don't think I can accurately tell you about this book anymore an ant could describe an entomologist. I don't think I've ever read a book this good before in my life, and I probably won't again for a long time to come. I'm all three characters and nothing else. I can't recommend this book to you or anyone because I'm scared you'll understand it and I'm scared you won't understand it at the same time.

finished reading Muted by Miranda Mundt

Miranda Mundt: Muted No rating

It has been thirteen years since the mysterious fire at the Severin family manor that …

Very obviously a webcomic only loosely adapted to a serialized format. Pacing suffers, but it was alright.

finished reading Isle in the Silver Sea by Tasha Suri

Tasha Suri: Isle in the Silver Sea (AudiobookFormat, 2025, Orbit)

From World Fantasy Award-winning author Tasha Suri comes The Isle in the Silver Sea, a …

Really excellent! I was a little skeptical going in, because I'm not a huge fan of the knights + dragons + witches kind of fantasy, and I'm certainly not a fan of romance plots, but it's just an excellently written book. The magic system is unique and serves the themes of the book beautifully, and the world building is captivating. It runs a little lengthy, but that can be forgiven. I think anyone interested in designing magic systems or fantasy worlds should be taking note.

wants to read This Is Your Bike on Plants by Elly Blue

Elly Blue: This Is Your Bike on Plants (2024, Microcosm Publishing) No rating

The revolution will be green, growing, and non-motorized When you plant the seeds of bicycle …

They kinda sniped me with that subject. Book made specifically to get me

is this the first time im reading a solarpunk book on books.solarpunk.moe?

finished reading All That We See or Seem by Ken Liu

Ken Liu: All That We See or Seem (2025, Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers) No rating

Award­-winning author Ken Liu returns with his first scifi thriller in a brand-new series following …

This didn't really connect with me, to be honest. I often found that the rules and tools that characters resolved challenges with felt unclear, or they'd resolve a puzzle / clue in a way that just didn't feel right. It ends up with the characters not really feeling as clever as the book wants you to believe that they are. Basically I had trouble keeping up keyfabe.

It's also a little hard to avoid the fact that the author is really really insistent that the AI that all the characters make use of (and which the main character specializes in) is a direct descendant of LLMs. Repeatedly. And in ways you can't really ignore. But also rarely actually addresses what the consequences of this might look like in any manor other than offhand.

There's definitely still some good parts, and several scenes really are clever, but I just …