“Grief, my mother once told me, is love’s most honest expression. The last and hardest aspect of truly, truly caring for someone. She said it at her own mother’s funeral rites, tears in her eyes even as she tried to comfort a boy too young to understand why he was so sad, why his grandmother…
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House of the Beast by Michelle Wong
“It occurred to me, suddenly, that perhaps this was his twisted attempt at trying to bond. For the first time in all these years, he was letting himself be vulnerable.It was a distinctly uncomfortable experience.” Born out of wedlock and shunned by society, Alma learned to make her peace with solitude, so long as she…
The Truth of the Aleke by Moses Ose Utomi
“History is only a story told by those with power to justify why they have it. The truth does not bend to power’s whims.” Stolen from Goodreads (because I don’t trust myself not to give away too much): The Aleke is cruel. The Aleke is clever. The Aleke is coming. 500 years after the events…
Godkiller by Hannah Kaner
“Fate was a fairy story and a bullshit one at that; fate could get fucked and go bother someone else.” Kissen’s family were killed by the zealots of a fire god when she was young. Now, she makes a living killing gods with the blessing of a new king. That is until she finds a…
Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
“She seems to enjoy your company, she may even like you, and yet. Don’t deceive yourself, my boy, this is not a love story.” In this pulse-pounding neo-noir, Mexico City is an oasis in a sea of vampires. Domingo, a lonely garbage-collecting street kid, is just trying to survive its heavily police streets when a…
The Great Book Wyrm 