From Netgalley: Métis cousins Isidore “Ezzy” Desjarlais and Grey Ginther have beef with their world. With the latest racist policy rolling out. With whatever new pipeline plowing through traditional territory. With the way a treaty (aka, the army) forced the Papaschase Cree off their home on the prairie. And, on the other hand, with how…
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The Brides of High Hill by Nghi Vo
“The world starts with a story. So do dynasties and eras and wars. So does love, and so does revenge. Everything starts with a story.” The Cleric Chih accompanies a beautiful young bride to her wedding to an aging lord at a crumbling estate situated at the crossroads of dead empires. But they’re forgetting things…
The Descent of Monsters by Neon Yang
“My greatest fear is not that I will find some sort of half-animal creature, wild-eyed and untamed. It is that I will find a genuine monster: someone perfectly human but with a heart of stone, turned cruel from enduring years of cruelty. What if they are not a tool enslaved by the Protectorate but a…
2024 Asian Readathon
Asian Readathon is back again and Cindy has given us a variety of prompts based on the upcoming movie Past Lives, which was quite a good movie. I don’t think it is as romance forward as some viewers will expect, but it’s good and I think the more important thing is what it represents in…
The Emperor and the Endless Palace by Justinian Huang
“How do you know when you are in love? I learned early on that for people like me, there are no grand gestures, no bold declarations painted across the sky. There are only little hidden moments, intense yet fleeting as shooting stars, that quickly burn away into night.” Stolen from Goodreads: In the year 4…
Butcher & Blackbird by Brynne Weaver
“I had an end in sight. And in a way, I was learning. I was learning how to keep my rage and darkness beneath a mask so I could carry on in the world. So I kept my mouth shut and gave pieces of myself away.” When a chance encounter sparks an unlikely bond between…
Lost in the Moment and Found by Seanan McGuire
“It’s easy to go along with a system. It’s harder to create one. You have to choose it, over and over, when you’re building it.” Welcome to the Shop Where the Lost Things Go. Antoinette has lost her father. Metaphorically. He’s not in the shop, and she’ll never see him again. But when Antsy finds…
Where the Dark Stands Still by A.B. Poranek
“If I look like a monster,’ he says roughly, ‘then no one will be surprised when I do monstrous things.” Stolen from Goodreads: Raised in a small village near the spirit-wood, Liska Radost knows that Magic is monstrous, and its practitioners, monsters. After Liska unleashes her own powers with devastating consequences, she is caught by…
The Hedgewitch of Foxhall by Anna Bright
“It is only men, Ffion bach, who want women to be young, she’d told me once. An old woman is free.” From Goodreads: Ffion is the last hedgewitch in Foxhall. To work her magic, she takes only what nature can spare, unlike the witches of the powerful Foxhall coven, who sacrifice whole forests to fuel…
Song of the Six Realms by Judy I. Lin
“First we breathed, then we dreamed…” Xue, an orphan left by her uncle at a tea house, is a talented musician, but has little prospects. She doesn’t remember much from before coming to the House of Flowing Water, but is devastated to loose her tie to the outside world when her uncle is killed by…
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