Sea!! Another year of stockings, and hopefully some more things for you to enjoy in the coming year :) (I hope that you have gotten to some of the ones I left last time, and liked them - I'm always happy to have you in my DMs btw so if you feel the urge to come say what you enjoyed - or what you didn't!! - I'm always keen)
So, this time, I am reccing you:
2 anthologies of short stories:
- The Djin Falls in Love and other stories - The Mythic Dream
2 graphic novels
Verse Book One: The Broken Half by Sam Beck (written and illustrated!) - fantasy world. Caveat - I haven't finished it because the library only had it in e-book and I just CAN'T read graphic novels on my phone. But what I read was good and the art was gorgeous.
Sentient by Jeff Lemire, illustrated by Gabriel Hernandez. This one's a darker scifi - when a separatist attack kills every adult on board a colony ship in deep space, it is up to VALARIE, the on-board A.I., to help the ship's children survive.
Some books!
The Stars Now Unclaimed by Drew Williams. Space war shenanigans including children with special abilities and a courier who gets them to base safely after searching them out. post-apocalyptic that had tech iimplications, space-faring races.
Chris Wooding's Poison - twisted fairy tale fantasy about a changeling - and also his Tales of the Ketty Jay series, which is about spacefaring pirates! getting up to shenanigans in space!
A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking by T Kingfisher was a pretty cosy fantasy read (if you are okay with the ~14 yr old gotta save the city trope, which T Kingfisher very much acknowledges, and this one has a MUCH better support system than most of the teen saviours you read about). If you like that one, then Minor Mage (farming village and wild forest setting) and Illuminations (olden days could-be-magical-Italy) should also be just your cuppa, too. If you like her style but want more romance, then try her Paladin series (including Swordheart and the Clocktaur Wars duology, which don't follow the Paladin's X title convention that the rest do, but are part of the same universe). Fantasy setting with brooding paladins, the books have different main characters rather than being a continuation of one story.
I know I've mentioned them both before, but:
Martha Wells; her new book Witch King was excellent (found family! loyalty! awesome worldbuilding with different systems of magic!), plus the newest and last in the Murdurbot series also came out this year.
And, if you want some cosy hopepunk, Becky Chambers Monk and Robot duology (so far) do a great job of that, with mostly tech-free self-sufficient communities spread out across the place and a tea-making monk travelling by solar-caravan and bike between them to give solace to people. Till they go on a trip and meet a robot. Also the novella both have gorgeous covers.
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May 2024 bring good tidings and fulfillment and some restfulness to you. Also if you ever decide to visit Aotearoa NZ hit me up, but otherwise it's so far there's not much point reccing you places to visit haha.
some recs for you <3
So, this time, I am reccing you:
2 anthologies of short stories:
- The Djin Falls in Love and other stories
- The Mythic Dream
2 graphic novels
Verse Book One: The Broken Half by Sam Beck (written and illustrated!) - fantasy world. Caveat - I haven't finished it because the library only had it in e-book and I just CAN'T read graphic novels on my phone. But what I read was good and the art was gorgeous.
Sentient by Jeff Lemire, illustrated by Gabriel Hernandez. This one's a darker scifi - when a separatist attack kills every adult on board a colony ship in deep space, it is up to VALARIE, the on-board A.I., to help the ship's children survive.
Some books!
The Stars Now Unclaimed by Drew Williams. Space war shenanigans including children with special abilities and a courier who gets them to base safely after searching them out. post-apocalyptic that had tech iimplications, space-faring races.
Chris Wooding's Poison - twisted fairy tale fantasy about a changeling - and also his Tales of the Ketty Jay series, which is about spacefaring pirates! getting up to shenanigans in space!
A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking by T Kingfisher was a pretty cosy fantasy read (if you are okay with the ~14 yr old gotta save the city trope, which T Kingfisher very much acknowledges, and this one has a MUCH better support system than most of the teen saviours you read about). If you like that one, then Minor Mage (farming village and wild forest setting) and Illuminations (olden days could-be-magical-Italy) should also be just your cuppa, too. If you like her style but want more romance, then try her Paladin series (including Swordheart and the Clocktaur Wars duology, which don't follow the Paladin's X title convention that the rest do, but are part of the same universe). Fantasy setting with brooding paladins, the books have different main characters rather than being a continuation of one story.
I know I've mentioned them both before, but:
Martha Wells; her new book Witch King was excellent (found family! loyalty! awesome worldbuilding with different systems of magic!), plus the newest and last in the Murdurbot series also came out this year.
And, if you want some cosy hopepunk, Becky Chambers Monk and Robot duology (so far) do a great job of that, with mostly tech-free self-sufficient communities spread out across the place and a tea-making monk travelling by solar-caravan and bike between them to give solace to people. Till they go on a trip and meet a robot. Also the novella both have gorgeous covers.
___
May 2024 bring good tidings and fulfillment and some restfulness to you. Also if you ever decide to visit Aotearoa NZ hit me up, but otherwise it's so far there's not much point reccing you places to visit haha.