Category: REVIEW

• A Song to Drown Rivers: Ann Liang Explores Love Through a Yearning Both Hopeful and Hopeless in This Historical Fantasy

  

• Where the Dark Stands Still: A. B. Poranek Unravels a Dark, Romantic Fairytale in a Spirit-Wood Inspired by Polish Folklore

  

• The City of Stardust: Georgia Summers Unlocked a Fairytale-Esque Darkness in this Contemporary Fantasy

  

• So Let Them Burn: Kamilah Cole Summoned Dragons and Gods to Fight a Colonising Power

  

• Droids Created to Replace Dead Loved Ones are Abandoned in “Those Left Behind”

  

• Yellowface: R.F. Kuang Writes a Meta, Mighty, and Merciless Dark Satire

  

• Bright Ruined Things: Samantha Cohoe Creates An Average Magical 1920s Fantasy that Features Spirits, Secrets, and a Determined Heroine

  

• Iron Widow: Xiran Jay Zhao Crafts An Intimidating & Unapologetic Science Fiction Full of Feminist Rage

  

• A River Enchanted: Rebecca Ross Explores Music, Myths, and the Meaning of Home in This Scottish-Inspired Fantasy

  

• Sofi and the Bone Song: Adrienne Tooley Hits the Right Notes in This Magical & Musical Fantasy of Self-Discovery and Deception

  

• An Arrow to the Moon: Emily X.R. Pan Beautifully Blends Love and Lore in This Magical Mix of Romeo & Juliet and Houyi & Chang’e

  

• A Magic Steeped in Poison: Judy I. Lin Brews Loyalty & Treachery in Beautiful Cups of Aromatic Magic

  

• Jade Fire Gold: June CL Tan Borrows Xianxia Elements and Creates an Adventure of Secrets