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Lucie Bryon: Thieves (2022, NoBrow) No rating

Um... What happened last night? Ella wakes on the morning after a house party at …

I forgot to mark this as finished! It's really good! If you liked Roaming, I'd recommend this

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?

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 …

Margaret Killjoy, Jonas Goonface: Escape from Incel Island (Paperback, 2023, Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness)

To cope with rising misogynist violence, the US government offered people a golden opportunity: any …

I went into this expecting goofy comedy dunking on incels (and was looking forward to it), but was delighted to find fleshed out characters and nuance?? and also goofy comedy dunking on incels.

Recommended for almost anybody tbh. It's a short novel and it's engaging right from the start. A delightful experience.

Margaret Killjoy: The Immortal Choir Holds Every Voice (Paperback, Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness) No rating

It's Samhain and Danielle and her friends are laying low in the wilderness of Idaho, …

I cried a little,,

Short stories don't normally move me that much, but three for three these were touching, and the final story is really really moving.

Margaret Killjoy: The Barrow Will Send What it May (Paperback, Tor.com Publishing)

Margaret Killjoy’s Danielle Cain series is a dropkick-in-the-mouth anarcho-punk fantasy that pits traveling anarchist Danielle …

Mwah mwah mwah!! Keeps the energy from The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion going without faltering! Go read TLWStL right now, then read this if you like it!

finished reading Sapling Cage by Margaret Killjoy (Daughters of the Empty Throne, #1)

Margaret Killjoy: Sapling Cage (EBook, 2024, Feminist Press at The City University of New York)

In the gripping first novel in the Daughters of the Empty Throne trilogy, author Margaret …

Not as heart pounding as Gearbreakers nor as tearjerking as Pet, but still a really good YA novel! The world building and magic system are both excellent, and it's got Margaret Killjoy's signature commentaries on power, in a new light for its new form.

I'd recommend for anyone into YA fantasy, though probably not more broadly than that.