Date: 2025-06-05 03:10 pm (UTC)
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Looking at my five star reads for the last however long:

  • Passing Strange by Ellen Klage - mostly a story of a group of queer women with a fairly strong romance plot, with some fantastical elements, set in San Francisco in 1940.
  • The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen - graphic novel, about fairy tales, family tales, and being a Vietnamese immigrant in USA. I suspect it gets shelved as YA.
  • Witness for the Dead by Katherine Addison - kind of cosy mystery, fantasy, with quite a lot of bureaucratic nonsense. This is book 2, but in a way that doesn't seem to matter (I bounced hard off book 1, The Goblin Emperor for being more politics than story). The resolution of the main mystery is a bit flat, but that is very much my experience with cosy mystery.
  • The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw - bit cautious on recommending this, because it is a dark reinterpretation of some fairy tale tropes, and it is heavy on body horror and gore.
  • Points of View: Liavek Stories by Patricia C Wrede, Pamela Dean - interwoven stories, individually written, shared world - all set in the same fantasy city.

The first two I own in physical copies so I don't have a feel for how easy they will be to find; I don't remember where I got the third (ebook); the last two are in our local ebook library so presumably accessible where you are.

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