Reviews A-Z

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Recommendation lists

Star Wars Without Nostalgia

Intro and the Original Trilogy (some untagged public knowledge spoilers)
The Prequels (untagged spoilers since the originals tell you what happens)
The Mandalorian (spoiler-free)
The Sequels (tagged spoilers)
Rogue One and Solo (spoiler-free)

Arcane

Season 1

Webcomics Catch-Up

A

Aaron, Rachel: Nice Dragons Finish Last (Heartstrikers #1)
Addison, Katherine: The Angel of the Crows
Addison, Katherine: The Witness for the Dead (The Goblin Emperor #2)
Alexievich, Svetlana: The Unwomanly Face of War
Alfageeh, Sara; Shammas, Nadia: Squire
Al-Mohamed, Day: The Labyrinth’s Archivist (Broken Cities #1, mini review)
Aoki, Ryka: Light from Uncommon Stars
Arden, Katherine: The Girl in the Tower (Winternight Trilogy #2)
Arden, Katherine: The Winter of the Witch (Winternight Trilogy #3)
Arnason, Eleanor: Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens
(Hwarhath #1.5)
Arnason, Eleanor: A Woman of the Iron People (mini review)
Atwater, Olivia: Half a Soul (Regency Faerie Tales #1)
Austin-King, Graham: Faithless

B

Baldree, Travis: Legends & Lattes
Bancroft, Josiah: Arm of the Sphinx (The Books of Babel #2)
Bancroft, Josiah: The Hod King (The Books of Babel #3)
Barker, R.J.: The Bone Ships (The Tide Child #1)
Bennett, Robert Jackson: City of Stairs (The Divine Cities #1)
Bennett, Robert Jackson: Foundryside (Founders #1)
Bledsoe, Alex: The Hum and the Shiver (Tufa #1)
Bodard, Aliette de: In the Vanishers’ Palace
Bodard, Aliette de: Of Dragons, Feasts and Murders (Dragons and Blades #1, mini review)
Bodard, Aliette de: Of Charms, Ghosts and Grievances (Dragons and Blades #2, mini review)
Bodard, Aliette de: Fireheart Tiger (mini review)
Bolander, Brooke: The Only Harmless Great Thing
Bolander, Brooke; Iglesias, Gabino; Moraine, Sunny; Rivera, K. Arsenault: Knox (Knox: Season #1)
Bray, Libba: The Diviners (The Diviners #1)
Brennan, Marie: The Tropic of Serpents (The Memoirs of Lady Trent #2)
Brennan, Sarah Rees: In Other Lands
Bujold, Lois McMaster: The Curse of Chalion (World of the Five Gods #1)
Bujold, Lois McMaster: Paladin of Souls (World of the Five Gods #2)
Bujold, Lois McMaster: Penric’s Progress (Penric and Desdemona #1-3)
Bujold, Lois McMaster: Penric’s Travels (Penric and Desdemons #5-7, mini review)
Bujold, Lois McMaster: Beguilement (The Sharing Knife #1)
Burgis, Stephanie: Masks and Shadows
Burgis, Stephanie: Snowspelled (The Harwood Spellbook #1)

C

Callender, Kacen: Queen of the Conquered (Islands of Blood and Storm #1, DNF, mini review)
Chambers, Becky: A Closed and Common Orbit (Wayfarers #2)
Chambers, Becky: Record of a Spaceborn Few (Wayfarers #3)
Chambers, Becky: The Galaxy, and the Ground Within (Wayfarers #4, mini review)
Chambers, Becky: To Be Taught, If Fortunate
Chambers, Becky: Monk and Robot #1-2 (mini review)
Chambers, Becky; Huang, S.L.; Lee, Yoon Ha; Solomon, Rivers: The Vela (The Vela: Season #1)
Charles, K.J.: The Magpie Lord (A Charm of Magpies #1)
Charles, K.J.: Proper English (mini review)
Charles, K.J.: Slippery Creatures (The Will Darling Adventures #1, mini review)
Cho, Zen: The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water (mini review)
Clark, C.L.: The Unbroken (The Magic of the Lost #1)
Clark, P. Djèlí: The Haunting of Tram Car 015 (Dead Djinn Universe #0.3, mini review)
Clark, P. Djèlí: A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe #1)
Clarke, Susanna: Piranesi
Cole, Alyssa; Lerner, Rose; Milan, Courtney: Hamilton’s Battalion
Collins, Bridget: The Binding
Cornell, Paul: Witches of Lychford (Lychford #1, mini review)

D

Dart-Thornton, Cecilia: The Ill-Made Mute (The Bitterbynde #1)
Davin, Felicia: Thornfruit (The Gardener’s Hand #1, DNF, mini review)
Dickinson, Seth: The Monster Baru Cormorant (The Masquerade #2)
DiLouie, Craig: One of Us
Dunnett, Dorothy: Niccolò Rising (House of Niccolò #1)
Dunsany, Lord: The Gods of Pegana
Dyachenko, Sergey & Marina: Vita Nostra

E

Eames, Nicholas: Kings of the Wyld (The Band #1)
Edwards, K.D.: The Last Sun (The Tarot Sequence #1)
Edwards, K.D.: The Sunken Mall (The Tarot Sequence #1.5, mini review)
Edwards, K.D.: The Hanged Man (The Tarot Sequence #2)
Elliott, Kate: The Keeper’s Six (mini review)
El-Mohtar, Amal; Gladstone, Max: This Is How You Lose the Time War
Emezi, Akwaeke: Pet (Pet #1)
Emezi, Akwaeke: Bitter (Pet #0.5, mini review)
Emrys, Ruthanna: A Half-Built Garden
Evans, Johannes T.: Heart of Stone

F

Fellman, Isaac: The Breath of the Sun
Fellman, Isaac: Dead Collections
Fellman, Isaac: The Two Doctors Górski
Fitzwater, A.J.: No Man’s Land (mini review)
Fox, Harper: Seven Summer Nights
Frohock, T.: Los Nefilim #1-4

G

Gailey, Sarah: Upright Women Wanted (mini review)
Gale, Scarlett: His Secret Illuminations (The Warrior’s Guild #1, DNF, mini review)
Galley, Ben: The Heart of Stone
Gibson, S.T.: A Dowry of Blood
Goddard, Victoria: The Hands of the Emperor (Lays of the Hearth-Fire #1, DNF, mini review)
Gomez, Jewelle L.: The Gilda Stories
Gorodischer, Angelica: Kalpa Imperial (mini review)
Goss, Theodora: The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter (The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club #1, DNF, mini review)
Gray, Aster Glenn: The Threefold Tie (mini review)
Gray, Aster Glenn: Briarley (mini review)
Green, Sally: Half Lost (The Half Bad Trilogy #3, DNF, mini review)
Griffith, Nicola: Spear (mini review)

H

Hackwith, A.J.: The Library of the Unwritten (A Novel from Hell’s Library #1)
Harris, Geraldine: Prince of the Godborn (Seven Citadels #1, DNF, mini review)
Harrow, Alix E.: The Ten Thousand Doors of January
Harrow, Alix E.: The Once and Future Witches
Harrow, Alix E.: A Spindle Splintered (Fractured Fables #1, mini review)
Hartman, Rachel: Seraphina (Seraphina #1, mini review)
Hartman, Rachel: Tess of the Road (Tess of the Road #1)
Hawke, Sam: City of Lies (Poison Wars #1)
Hayes, Tyler: The Imaginary Corpse
Headley, Maria Dahvana: The Mere Wife
Headley, Maria Dahvana (translator): Beowulf: A New Translation
Herman, Eleanor: The Royal Art of Poison
Hogarth, M.C.A.: Mindtouch (The Dreamhealers #1)
Hogarth, M.C.A.: Mindline (The Dreamhealers #2, mini review)
Holborn, Stark: Triggernometry #1-2
Hossain, Saad Z.: The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday (mini review)
Hossain, Saad Z.: Kundo Wakes Up (mini review)
Höst, Andrea K.: The Silence of Medair (Medair #1)
Huang, S.L.: Burning Roses (mini review)

I

Ishiguro, Kazuo: The Buried Giant

J

Jamnia, Naseem: The Bruising of Qilwa
Jarvis, Nicole: The Lights of Prague (mini review)
Jimenez, Simon: The Spear Cuts Through Water
Jones, Diana Wynne: Howl’s Moving Castle (Howl’s Moving Castle #1)
Jones, Heather Rose: Daughter of Mystery (Alpennia #1)

K

Katz, Meredith: The Cybernetic Tea Shop
Kingfisher, T.: Swordheart
Kingfisher, T.: Nettle & Bone
Kloss, Barbara: Gods of Men (Gods of Men #1, DNF)
Klune, T.J.: The House in the Cerulean Sea
Klune, T.J.: Under the Whispering Door
Knight, E.E.: Novice Dragoneer (Dragoneer Academy #1)
Kornher-Stace, Nicole: Archivist Wasp (Archivist Wasp Saga #1, mini review)
Kowal, Mary Robinette: The Spare Man
Kuang, R.F.: Babel, or the Necessity of Violence: an Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution
Kushner, Ellen: Thomas the Rhymer

L

Lackey, Mercedes: The Oathbound (Valdemar: Vows and Honor #1, DNF)
Lackey, Mercedes: Take a Thief (Valdemar)
Lackey, Mercedes: By the Sword (Valdemar)
Laclos, Pierre Choderlos de: Dangerous Liaisons (mini review)
Leckie, Ann: The Raven Tower (DNF, mini review)
Lee, J.M.: The Nightland Express
Lee, Mackenzi: The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue (Montague Siblings #1)
Lee, Mackenzi: The Lady’s Guide to Petticoats and Piracy (Montague Siblings #2)
Lee, Mackenzi: The Nobleman’s Guide to Scandal & Shipwrecks (Montague Siblings #2, mini review)
Lee, Mary Soon: The Sign of the Dragon (DNF, mini review)
Lee, Yoon Ha: Ninefox Gambit (The Machineries of Empire #1, mini review)
Lee, Yoon Ha: Phoenix Extravagant (mini review)
Lemberg, R.B.: The Four Profound Weaves (Birdverse)
Lemberg, R.B.: The Unbalancing (Birdverse)
Lemberg, R.B.: Geometries of Belonging: Stories and Poems from the Birdverse (Birdverse, mini review)
Little Badger, Darcie: Elatsoe
Lloyd-Jones, Emily: The Bone Houses
Locke, Fox N.: Their Heart a Hive
Lu, S. Qiouyi: In the Watchful City (mini review)

M

Madson, Devin: We Ride the Storm (The Reborn Empire #1)
Mandelo, Lee: Summer Sons
Mariz, Rae: Weird Fishes
Marske, Freya: A Marvellous Light (The Last Binding, #1)
Marske, Freya: A Restless Truth (The Last Binding, #2)
Martine, Arkady: A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan #1)
Maxwell, Everina: Ocean’s Echo
McGuire, Seanan: Down Among the Sticks and Bones (Wayward Children #2)
McGuire, Seanan: Beneath the Sugar Sky (Wayward Children #3)
McGuire, Seanan: In An Absent Dream (Wayward Children #4)
McKillip, Patricia: Od Magic (mini review)
McKinley, Robin: Chalice
Mitford, Nancy: Voltaire in Love
Mitford, Nancy: Madame de Pompadour (mini review)
Moreno-Garcia, Silvia: Gods of Jade and Shadow
Mueller, Sara A.: The Bone Orchard (DNF, mini review)
Muir, Tamsyn: Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb #1)
Murad, Mahvesh; Shurin, Jared: The Djinn Falls in Love & Other Stories (mini review)
Myer, Ilana C.: Last Song Before Night (The Harp and Ring Sequence #1)

N

Noni, Lynnette: The Prison Healer (The Prison Healer #1, DNF, mini review)
Noon, Emily: Aurora’s Angel (DNF, mini review)
North, Claire: Touch
North, Claire: The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
Novik, Naomi: Spinning Silver
Novik, Naomi: A Deadly Education (The Scholomance #1, DNF, mini review)

O

Okorafor, Nnedi: Binti: The Complete Trilogy (Binti #1-3)

P

Palmer, Ada: Too Like the Ligtning (Terra Ignota #1)
Palmer, Ada: Seven Surrenders (Terra Ignota #2, mini review)
Palmer, Ada: The Will to Battle (Terra Ignota #3, mini review)
Parker, K.J.: Devices and Desires (Engineer Trilogy #1)
Parker, K.J.: My Beautiful Life
Parker-Chan, Shelley: She Who Became the Sun (The Radiant Emperor #1)
Parley, Kay: The Grass People (DNF)
Pérez-Reverte, Arturo: The Fencing Master
Petrosyan, Mariam: The Gray House
Polansky, Daniel: The Seventh Perfection
Polk, C.L.: Witchmark (The Kingston Cycle #1)
Polk, C.L.: Even Though I Knew the End (mini review)
Popović, Lana: Wicked Like a Wildfire (Hibiscus Daughter #1)
Pratchett, Terry: Guards! Guards! (Discworld #8, City Watch #1)
Pulley, Natasha: The Kingdoms (DNF, mini review)

R

Rather, Lina: Sisters of the Vast Black (Sisters of St. Rita #1, mini review)
Reid, Ava: The Wolf and the Woodsman
Riddle, Travis M.: Balam, Spring (DNF)
Ridley, Erica: The Perks of Loving a Wallflower (The Wild Wynchesters #2, DNF, mini review)
Ríos, Emma; Lim, Hwei: Mirror: The Mountain (Mirror #1-5, mini review)
Roanhorse, Rebecca: Resistance Reborn (Star Wars, DNF, mini review)
Robson, Kelly: High Times in the Low Parliament by Kelly Robson (mini review)
Rowland, Alexandra: A Taste of Gold and Iron (DNF, mini review)
Russell, Mary Doria: The Sparrow (The Sparrow #1)
Russell, Mary Doria: Children of God (The Sparrow #2)
Rwizi, C.T.: Scarlet Odyssey (Scarlet Odyssey #1)

S

Samatar, Sofia: A Stranger in Olondria (Olondria #1)
Samatar, Sofia: The Winged Histories (Olondria #2)
Sanderson, Brandon: The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive #1)
Sanderson, Brandon: Words of Radiance (The Stormlight Archive #2)
Sanderson, Brandon: Children of the Nameless
Schaefer, Elizabeth (editor): From a Certain Point of View (Star Wars)
Schaefer, Elizabeth (editor): From a Certain Point of View: The Empire Strikes Back (Star Wars)
Schwab, V.E.: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
Sebastian, Cat: Seducing the Sedgwicks series (Seducing the Sedgwicks #1-3)
Sebastian, Cat: Hither, Page (Page & Sommers #1, mini review)
Sebastian, Cat: The Missing Page (Page & Sommers #2, mini review)
Sebastian, Cat: The Queer Principles of Kit Webb (mini review)
Shannon, Samantha: The Priory of the Orange Tree (DNF, mini review)
Sharma, Iona Datt: Division Bells (mini review)
Shawl, Nisi: Everfair
Shippen, Lauren: The Infinite Noise (The Bright Sessions #1, DNF, mini review)
Silver, Avi: Two Dark Moons (Sãoni Cycle #1, mini review)
Simmons, Dan: Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos #1, DNF)
Skrutskie, Emily: Bonds of Brass (The Bloodright Trilogy #1)
Slatter, A.G.: The Path of Thorns
Smith, Luanne G.: The Vine Witch (Vine Witch #1)
Smith, Sherwood: Treason’s Shore (Inda #4, mini review)
Solomon, Rivers: An Unkindness of Ghosts (mini review)
Solomon, Rivers; Diggs, Daveed; Hutson, William; Snipes, Jonathan: The Deep
Soto, Ada Maria: His Quiet Agent (The Agency #1, mini review)
Soto, Ada Maria: Agents of Winter (The Agency #2, mini review)
Starling, Caitlin: The Death of Jane Lawrence
Starling, Caitlin: Yellow Jessamine (mini review)
Stiefvater, Maggie: All the Crooked Saints
Stoker, Bram: Dracula (in the form of Dracula Daily, serialised by Matt Kirkland)
Stover, Matthew: Shatterpoint (Star Wars, mini review)
Stronach, Sascha: The Dawnhounds (Against the Quiet #1)
Strugatsky, Arkady & Boris: Hard to Be a God
Suri, Tasha: The Jasmine Throne (Burning Kingdoms #1)
Suri, Tasha: The Oleander Sword (Burning Kingdoms #2)

T

Taylor, Laini: Strange the Dreamer and Muse of Nightmares (Strange the Dreamer #1-2)
Tchaikovsky, Adrian: Redemption’s Blade (After the War #1)
Tchaikovsky, Adrian: Elder Race
Tchaikovsky, Adrian: Shards of Earth (DNF, mini review)
Tesh, Emily: Silver in the Wood (The Greenhollow Duology #1, mini review)
Tidbeck, Karin: Amatka
Tidhar, Lavie: Central Station
Tolmie, Sarah: All the Horses of Iceland (mini review)
Townsend, Jessica: The Trials of Morrigan Crow (Nevermoor #1, mini review)
Traviss, Karen: Hard Contact (Star Wars; Republic Commando #1)
Trimboli, Wendy; Zaloga, Alicia: The Resurrectionist of Caligo
Tristen, Sienna: The Heretic’s Guide to Homecoming: Book One: Theory
Tucholke, April Genevieve: Seven Endless Forests (mini review)

V

Valente, Catherynne M.: Deathless
Valente, Catherynne M.: The Past is Red (mini review)
VanderMeer, Jeff: City of Saints and Madmen (Ambergris #1)
Villoso, K.S.: The Wolf of Oren-Yaro (Annals of the Bitch Queen #1)
Vo, Nghi: The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle #1, mini review)
Vo, Nghi: When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain (The Singing Hills Cycle #2, mini review)
Vo, Nghi: Into the Riverlands (The Singing Hills Cycle #3, mini review)
Volsky, Paula: Illusion

W

Waggoner, C.M.: Unnatural Magic
Walden, Tillie: On a Sunbeam (mini review)
Walker, Suzanne; Xu, Wendy: Mooncakes (mini review)
Walschots, Natalie Zina: Hench
Walton, Jo: Lifelode
Wambheim, E.: Of the Wild (mini review)
Wanstall-Burke, Alicia: Blood of Heirs (The Coraidic Sagas #1)
Wecker, Helene: The Hidden Palace (The Golem and the Jinni #2, DNF, mini review)
Wein, Elizabeth: A Coalition of Lions (The Lion Hunters #2, mini review)
Wells, Martha: The Wizard Hunters (The Fall of Ile-Rien #1)
Wells, Martha: The Cloud Roads (The Books of the Raksura #1)
Wexler, Django: The Thousand Names (The Shadow Campaigns #1, mini review)
Wexler, Django: The Shadow Throne (The Shadow Campaigns #2)
Weymouth, Laura: The Light Between the Worlds
Whiteley, Aliya: Skyward Inn
Wight, Will: Unsouled (Cradle #1, DNF)

Y

Yan Ge: Strange Beasts of China
Yang, J.Y.: The Black Tides of Heaven (Tensorate #1)

Z

Zhang, Cynthia: After the Dragons
Zinsser, Judith P.: Emilie du Châtelet: Daring Genius of the Enlightenment