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Zuletzt beendetes Buch: "The Once and Future Witches" von Alix E.Harrow - mit Anregungen auch für Kyras Schwestern auf Myra #witchesriseup #AlixEHarrow #Fantasyromane #ProjektMyra
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Zuletzt beendetes Buch: "The Once and Future Witches" von Alix E.Harrow - mit Anregungen auch für Kyras Schwestern auf Myra #witchesriseup #AlixEHarrow #Fantasyromane #ProjektMyra
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The author Francis Spufford, whose work I haven't yet read, recommended this on a podcast I rarely listen to. A jump into the unknown that really paid handsomely. Highly recommended.
author @[email protected] in the hope that one day Alix bridges their account to mastodon.
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The author Francis Spufford, whose work I haven't yet read, recommended this on a podcast I rarely listen to. A jump into the unknown that really paid handsomely. Highly recommended.
author @[email protected] in the hope that one day Alix bridges their account to mastodon.
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The author Francis Spufford, whose work I haven't yet read, recommended this on a podcast I rarely listen to. A jump into the unknown that really paid handsomely. Highly recommended.
author @[email protected] in the hope that one day Alix bridges their account to mastodon.
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The author Francis Spufford, whose work I haven't yet read, recommended this on a podcast I rarely listen to. A jump into the unknown that really paid handsomely. Highly recommended.
author @[email protected] in the hope that one day Alix bridges their account to mastodon.
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The author Francis Spufford, whose work I haven't yet read, recommended this on a podcast I rarely listen to. A jump into the unknown that really paid handsomely. Highly recommended.
author @[email protected] in the hope that one day Alix bridges their account to mastodon.
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A book review of “The Everlasting” by Alix E Harrow
Originally published in 2025
Genre: Fantasy
Page Count: 311 pages
Within the country of Dominion, there is one legend that is the cornerstone of their national identity. That is the tale of Una Everlasting, a girl who seemingly came out of nowhere many centuries ago beneath a yew tree and was raised a family of woodcutters. One day, she had to leave the village for a bit and when she returned, she discovered that it had been raided and only she survived. She then drew the blade from the yew tree beneath where she had been found and began to travel until she met the one who would become queen. It was there that she was named Una and later would receive her second name. She was knighted and became a national symbol; however, this story does not end without the tragedy of her death.
In the present, Owen Mallory falls in love with this story. He’s a scholar who also became a soldier for a while. It is her story that pushes him forward. It even pushes him into the past after having been sent a mysterious, previously unknown version of her story. He meets her and gets to know her better than a centuries-old story would tell him. He even falls in love with her; however, it still cannot end well. Her story always ends the same way, with tragedy. If they want to rewrite her story, they will need to do more than rewrite it in the present. This is easier said than done.
While reading this novel, I could easily see the inspiration of the Arthurian cycle. The story of Sir Una Everlasting is central to this novel, and it goes way further than how the story impacts Owen personally. This novel delves into how it affects the national identity and propaganda of Dominion.
At its heart, this is a novel about two people from very different periods of time bound by this story. The book is written with both Owen and Una telling each other the story. Because of this, in the narration, there are a lot more second-person pronouns than I’m used to. This did take a few chapters to get used to, but in the end, it made the story feel a lot more personal to me. It also gave me hope that everything would turn out fine.
This was a very nice book to read. It was romantic at times and tense at others, and it was a pleasure to get to know Owen and Una. The side characters and the antagonist were also interesting. I’m glad I read it.
Personal Rating: 5/5
#2026 #AlixEHarrow #bookReview #Books #Reading #TheEverlasting -
A book review of “The Everlasting” by Alix E Harrow
Originally published in 2025
Genre: Fantasy
Page Count: 311 pages
Within the country of Dominion, there is one legend that is the cornerstone of their national identity. That is the tale of Una Everlasting, a girl who seemingly came out of nowhere many centuries ago beneath a yew tree and was raised a family of woodcutters. One day, she had to leave the village for a bit and when she returned, she discovered that it had been raided and only she survived. She then drew the blade from the yew tree beneath where she had been found and began to travel until she met the one who would become queen. It was there that she was named Una and later would receive her second name. She was knighted and became a national symbol; however, this story does not end without the tragedy of her death.
In the present, Owen Mallory falls in love with this story. He’s a scholar who also became a soldier for a while. It is her story that pushes him forward. It even pushes him into the past after having been sent a mysterious, previously unknown version of her story. He meets her and gets to know her better than a centuries-old story would tell him. He even falls in love with her; however, it still cannot end well. Her story always ends the same way, with tragedy. If they want to rewrite her story, they will need to do more than rewrite it in the present. This is easier said than done.
While reading this novel, I could easily see the inspiration of the Arthurian cycle. The story of Sir Una Everlasting is central to this novel, and it goes way further than how the story impacts Owen personally. This novel delves into how it affects the national identity and propaganda of Dominion.
At its heart, this is a novel about two people from very different periods of time bound by this story. The book is written with both Owen and Una telling each other the story. Because of this, in the narration, there are a lot more second-person pronouns than I’m used to. This did take a few chapters to get used to, but in the end, it made the story feel a lot more personal to me. It also gave me hope that everything would turn out fine.
This was a very nice book to read. It was romantic at times and tense at others, and it was a pleasure to get to know Owen and Una. The side characters and the antagonist were also interesting. I’m glad I read it.
Personal Rating: 5/5
#2026 #AlixEHarrow #bookReview #Books #Reading #TheEverlasting -
A book review of “The Everlasting” by Alix E Harrow
Originally published in 2025
Genre: Fantasy
Page Count: 311 pages
Within the country of Dominion, there is one legend that is the cornerstone of their national identity. That is the tale of Una Everlasting, a girl who seemingly came out of nowhere many centuries ago beneath a yew tree and was raised a family of woodcutters. One day, she had to leave the village for a bit and when she returned, she discovered that it had been raided and only she survived. She then drew the blade from the yew tree beneath where she had been found and began to travel until she met the one who would become queen. It was there that she was named Una and later would receive her second name. She was knighted and became a national symbol; however, this story does not end without the tragedy of her death.
In the present, Owen Mallory falls in love with this story. He’s a scholar who also became a soldier for a while. It is her story that pushes him forward. It even pushes him into the past after having been sent a mysterious, previously unknown version of her story. He meets her and gets to know her better than a centuries-old story would tell him. He even falls in love with her; however, it still cannot end well. Her story always ends the same way, with tragedy. If they want to rewrite her story, they will need to do more than rewrite it in the present. This is easier said than done.
While reading this novel, I could easily see the inspiration of the Arthurian cycle. The story of Sir Una Everlasting is central to this novel, and it goes way further than how the story impacts Owen personally. This novel delves into how it affects the national identity and propaganda of Dominion.
At its heart, this is a novel about two people from very different periods of time bound by this story. The book is written with both Owen and Una telling each other the story. Because of this, in the narration, there are a lot more second-person pronouns than I’m used to. This did take a few chapters to get used to, but in the end, it made the story feel a lot more personal to me. It also gave me hope that everything would turn out fine.
This was a very nice book to read. It was romantic at times and tense at others, and it was a pleasure to get to know Owen and Una. The side characters and the antagonist were also interesting. I’m glad I read it.
Personal Rating: 5/5
#2026 #AlixEHarrow #bookReview #Books #Reading #TheEverlasting -
A book review of “The Everlasting” by Alix E Harrow
Originally published in 2025
Genre: Fantasy
Page Count: 311 pages
Within the country of Dominion, there is one legend that is the cornerstone of their national identity. That is the tale of Una Everlasting, a girl who seemingly came out of nowhere many centuries ago beneath a yew tree and was raised a family of woodcutters. One day, she had to leave the village for a bit and when she returned, she discovered that it had been raided and only she survived. She then drew the blade from the yew tree beneath where she had been found and began to travel until she met the one who would become queen. It was there that she was named Una and later would receive her second name. She was knighted and became a national symbol; however, this story does not end without the tragedy of her death.
In the present, Owen Mallory falls in love with this story. He’s a scholar who also became a soldier for a while. It is her story that pushes him forward. It even pushes him into the past after having been sent a mysterious, previously unknown version of her story. He meets her and gets to know her better than a centuries-old story would tell him. He even falls in love with her; however, it still cannot end well. Her story always ends the same way, with tragedy. If they want to rewrite her story, they will need to do more than rewrite it in the present. This is easier said than done.
While reading this novel, I could easily see the inspiration of the Arthurian cycle. The story of Sir Una Everlasting is central to this novel, and it goes way further than how the story impacts Owen personally. This novel delves into how it affects the national identity and propaganda of Dominion.
At its heart, this is a novel about two people from very different periods of time bound by this story. The book is written with both Owen and Una telling each other the story. Because of this, in the narration, there are a lot more second-person pronouns than I’m used to. This did take a few chapters to get used to, but in the end, it made the story feel a lot more personal to me. It also gave me hope that everything would turn out fine.
This was a very nice book to read. It was romantic at times and tense at others, and it was a pleasure to get to know Owen and Una. The side characters and the antagonist were also interesting. I’m glad I read it.
Personal Rating: 5/5
#2026 #AlixEHarrow #bookReview #Books #Reading #TheEverlasting -
A book review of “The Everlasting” by Alix E Harrow
Originally published in 2025
Genre: Fantasy
Page Count: 311 pages
Within the country of Dominion, there is one legend that is the cornerstone of their national identity. That is the tale of Una Everlasting, a girl who seemingly came out of nowhere many centuries ago beneath a yew tree and was raised a family of woodcutters. One day, she had to leave the village for a bit and when she returned, she discovered that it had been raided and only she survived. She then drew the blade from the yew tree beneath where she had been found and began to travel until she met the one who would become queen. It was there that she was named Una and later would receive her second name. She was knighted and became a national symbol; however, this story does not end without the tragedy of her death.
In the present, Owen Mallory falls in love with this story. He’s a scholar who also became a soldier for a while. It is her story that pushes him forward. It even pushes him into the past after having been sent a mysterious, previously unknown version of her story. He meets her and gets to know her better than a centuries-old story would tell him. He even falls in love with her; however, it still cannot end well. Her story always ends the same way, with tragedy. If they want to rewrite her story, they will need to do more than rewrite it in the present. This is easier said than done.
While reading this novel, I could easily see the inspiration of the Arthurian cycle. The story of Sir Una Everlasting is central to this novel, and it goes way further than how the story impacts Owen personally. This novel delves into how it affects the national identity and propaganda of Dominion.
At its heart, this is a novel about two people from very different periods of time bound by this story. The book is written with both Owen and Una telling each other the story. Because of this, in the narration, there are a lot more second-person pronouns than I’m used to. This did take a few chapters to get used to, but in the end, it made the story feel a lot more personal to me. It also gave me hope that everything would turn out fine.
This was a very nice book to read. It was romantic at times and tense at others, and it was a pleasure to get to know Owen and Una. The side characters and the antagonist were also interesting. I’m glad I read it.
Personal Rating: 5/5
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Alix E. Harrow: Starling House
Kentuckylaisessa pikkukaupungissa sijaitsee synkkä vanha kartano, josta kerrotaan karmiva tarinoita. Jatkuvassa rahapulassa kituuttava Opal päätyy sattuman kautta taloon töihin ja joutuu outojen tapahtumien pyörteisiin.
Tarina oli periaatteessa ihan viihdyttävä fantasiaseikkailu ja tykkäsin sen goottilaistyylisestä synkkyydestä. Liian moni asia kuitenkin häiritsi. Henkilöt eivät olleet kovin kiinnostavia, Opal oli lähinnä ärsyttävä ja käyttäytyi kuin pahainen teini, vaikka oli 26-vuotias. Toinen päähahmo Arthur vaikutti aluksi kiinnostavalta, mutta taantui pian aika yksiulotteiseksi. Ja näiden kahden suhde on ihan käsittämätön, en ymmärrä mistä heidän välilleen olisi syntynyt mitään kemiaa.
Muutkin hahmot olivat lähinnä karikatyyrejä: köyhät ja taiteelliset ovat hyviksiä, rikkaat bisnestyypit pahiksia (rikaskin voi olla hyvis, kunhan omaisuus on perintönä saatua). Kiinnostavin hahmo oli itse talo, mutta sen persoonallisuus pääsi harmillisen vähän esiin.
Kirja tuntui myös vähän turhan pitkältä, varsinkin loppuhuipennus jatkui loputtomiin eikä sitten lopulta oikein huipentunutkaan mihinkään.
Kirja on kerännyt paljon kehuja StoryGraphissa, mutta minulle ei nyt oikein iskenyt.
#kirjamastodon #kirjafedi #kirjat #lukeminen #starlinghouse #alixeharrow
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Alix E. Harrow: Starling House
Kentuckylaisessa pikkukaupungissa sijaitsee synkkä vanha kartano, josta kerrotaan karmiva tarinoita. Jatkuvassa rahapulassa kituuttava Opal päätyy sattuman kautta taloon töihin ja joutuu outojen tapahtumien pyörteisiin.
Tarina oli periaatteessa ihan viihdyttävä fantasiaseikkailu ja tykkäsin sen goottilaistyylisestä synkkyydestä. Liian moni asia kuitenkin häiritsi. Henkilöt eivät olleet kovin kiinnostavia, Opal oli lähinnä ärsyttävä ja käyttäytyi kuin pahainen teini, vaikka oli 26-vuotias. Toinen päähahmo Arthur vaikutti aluksi kiinnostavalta, mutta taantui pian aika yksiulotteiseksi. Ja näiden kahden suhde on ihan käsittämätön, en ymmärrä mistä heidän välilleen olisi syntynyt mitään kemiaa.
Muutkin hahmot olivat lähinnä karikatyyrejä: köyhät ja taiteelliset ovat hyviksiä, rikkaat bisnestyypit pahiksia (rikaskin voi olla hyvis, kunhan omaisuus on perintönä saatua). Kiinnostavin hahmo oli itse talo, mutta sen persoonallisuus pääsi harmillisen vähän esiin.
Kirja tuntui myös vähän turhan pitkältä, varsinkin loppuhuipennus jatkui loputtomiin eikä sitten lopulta oikein huipentunutkaan mihinkään.
Kirja on kerännyt paljon kehuja StoryGraphissa, mutta minulle ei nyt oikein iskenyt.
#kirjamastodon #kirjafedi #kirjat #lukeminen #starlinghouse #alixeharrow
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Alix E. Harrow: Starling House
Kentuckylaisessa pikkukaupungissa sijaitsee synkkä vanha kartano, josta kerrotaan karmiva tarinoita. Jatkuvassa rahapulassa kituuttava Opal päätyy sattuman kautta taloon töihin ja joutuu outojen tapahtumien pyörteisiin.
Tarina oli periaatteessa ihan viihdyttävä fantasiaseikkailu ja tykkäsin sen goottilaistyylisestä synkkyydestä. Liian moni asia kuitenkin häiritsi. Henkilöt eivät olleet kovin kiinnostavia, Opal oli lähinnä ärsyttävä ja käyttäytyi kuin pahainen teini, vaikka oli 26-vuotias. Toinen päähahmo Arthur vaikutti aluksi kiinnostavalta, mutta taantui pian aika yksiulotteiseksi. Ja näiden kahden suhde on ihan käsittämätön, en ymmärrä mistä heidän välilleen olisi syntynyt mitään kemiaa.
Muutkin hahmot olivat lähinnä karikatyyrejä: köyhät ja taiteelliset ovat hyviksiä, rikkaat bisnestyypit pahiksia (rikaskin voi olla hyvis, kunhan omaisuus on perintönä saatua). Kiinnostavin hahmo oli itse talo, mutta sen persoonallisuus pääsi harmillisen vähän esiin.
Kirja tuntui myös vähän turhan pitkältä, varsinkin loppuhuipennus jatkui loputtomiin eikä sitten lopulta oikein huipentunutkaan mihinkään.
Kirja on kerännyt paljon kehuja StoryGraphissa, mutta minulle ei nyt oikein iskenyt.
#kirjamastodon #kirjafedi #kirjat #lukeminen #starlinghouse #alixeharrow
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Alix E. Harrow: Starling House
Kentuckylaisessa pikkukaupungissa sijaitsee synkkä vanha kartano, josta kerrotaan karmiva tarinoita. Jatkuvassa rahapulassa kituuttava Opal päätyy sattuman kautta taloon töihin ja joutuu outojen tapahtumien pyörteisiin.
Tarina oli periaatteessa ihan viihdyttävä fantasiaseikkailu ja tykkäsin sen goottilaistyylisestä synkkyydestä. Liian moni asia kuitenkin häiritsi. Henkilöt eivät olleet kovin kiinnostavia, Opal oli lähinnä ärsyttävä ja käyttäytyi kuin pahainen teini, vaikka oli 26-vuotias. Toinen päähahmo Arthur vaikutti aluksi kiinnostavalta, mutta taantui pian aika yksiulotteiseksi. Ja näiden kahden suhde on ihan käsittämätön, en ymmärrä mistä heidän välilleen olisi syntynyt mitään kemiaa.
Muutkin hahmot olivat lähinnä karikatyyrejä: köyhät ja taiteelliset ovat hyviksiä, rikkaat bisnestyypit pahiksia (rikaskin voi olla hyvis, kunhan omaisuus on perintönä saatua). Kiinnostavin hahmo oli itse talo, mutta sen persoonallisuus pääsi harmillisen vähän esiin.
Kirja tuntui myös vähän turhan pitkältä, varsinkin loppuhuipennus jatkui loputtomiin eikä sitten lopulta oikein huipentunutkaan mihinkään.
Kirja on kerännyt paljon kehuja StoryGraphissa, mutta minulle ei nyt oikein iskenyt.
#kirjamastodon #kirjafedi #kirjat #lukeminen #starlinghouse #alixeharrow
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Alix E. Harrow: Starling House
Kentuckylaisessa pikkukaupungissa sijaitsee synkkä vanha kartano, josta kerrotaan karmiva tarinoita. Jatkuvassa rahapulassa kituuttava Opal päätyy sattuman kautta taloon töihin ja joutuu outojen tapahtumien pyörteisiin.
Tarina oli periaatteessa ihan viihdyttävä fantasiaseikkailu ja tykkäsin sen goottilaistyylisestä synkkyydestä. Liian moni asia kuitenkin häiritsi. Henkilöt eivät olleet kovin kiinnostavia, Opal oli lähinnä ärsyttävä ja käyttäytyi kuin pahainen teini, vaikka oli 26-vuotias. Toinen päähahmo Arthur vaikutti aluksi kiinnostavalta, mutta taantui pian aika yksiulotteiseksi. Ja näiden kahden suhde on ihan käsittämätön, en ymmärrä mistä heidän välilleen olisi syntynyt mitään kemiaa.
Muutkin hahmot olivat lähinnä karikatyyrejä: köyhät ja taiteelliset ovat hyviksiä, rikkaat bisnestyypit pahiksia (rikaskin voi olla hyvis, kunhan omaisuus on perintönä saatua). Kiinnostavin hahmo oli itse talo, mutta sen persoonallisuus pääsi harmillisen vähän esiin.
Kirja tuntui myös vähän turhan pitkältä, varsinkin loppuhuipennus jatkui loputtomiin eikä sitten lopulta oikein huipentunutkaan mihinkään.
Kirja on kerännyt paljon kehuja StoryGraphissa, mutta minulle ei nyt oikein iskenyt.
#kirjamastodon #kirjafedi #kirjat #lukeminen #starlinghouse #alixeharrow
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Strange Horizons - My review of The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow
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Strange Horizons - My review of The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow
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Strange Horizons - My review of The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow
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Strange Horizons - My review of The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow
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Strange Horizons - My review of The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow
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On Saturday I finished "The Everlasting" by Alix E Harrow. I was crying for the last 50 or so pages of the book and for at least half an hour later. It was so well written, so emotional, so beautifully put together. I loved this book so much. One of my top books of 2025.
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On Saturday I finished "The Everlasting" by Alix E Harrow. I was crying for the last 50 or so pages of the book and for at least half an hour later. It was so well written, so emotional, so beautifully put together. I loved this book so much. One of my top books of 2025.
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On Saturday I finished "The Everlasting" by Alix E Harrow. I was crying for the last 50 or so pages of the book and for at least half an hour later. It was so well written, so emotional, so beautifully put together. I loved this book so much. One of my top books of 2025.
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On Saturday I finished "The Everlasting" by Alix E Harrow. I was crying for the last 50 or so pages of the book and for at least half an hour later. It was so well written, so emotional, so beautifully put together. I loved this book so much. One of my top books of 2025.
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On Saturday I finished "The Everlasting" by Alix E Harrow. I was crying for the last 50 or so pages of the book and for at least half an hour later. It was so well written, so emotional, so beautifully put together. I loved this book so much. One of my top books of 2025.
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Greenteeth
May 20, 2025GREENTEETH rating: four stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐.
What a debut! After yesterday–because I read the cozy fantasy GREENTEETH (Orbit/Hachette, February 25, 2025) in a single day–I’m a new fan of author Molly O’Neill. She knows her myths.
A goblin, a river spirit, and a witch walk into a bar. . .no, actually, they walk into the court of the Fairy King and Queen by way of enchanted fairy roads, and are given three quests in order to craft a magic weapon to defeat the bad guy. Can you resist this premise? You aren’t my people if you can.
A preacher shows up in a medieval English backwater called Chipping Appleby and turns out to be possessed by a wicked and ancient being, the Erl King. He doesn’t condemn Temperance Crump to death by drowning out of mere prejudice against healing women: Temperance doesn’t realize what a powerful sorceress she is, and therefore a threat to “Pastor Braddock’s” nefarious plans. Temperance is saved from death by Jenny Greenteeth, also a very ancient being, who lives in the river. As folklorist and podcaster Icy Sedgwick explains in her “Strange River Folklore: River Gods and Dark Spirits”: “[T]he grindylow appears in British folklore as a cautionary tale. Sometimes known as Jenny Greenteeth, the grindylow lurks in English rivers, ponds and marshes. According to the legends, these nasty critters dragged children into the deepest parts of the rivers if they ventured into the shallows.” (icysedgwick.com, “Folklore,” March 13, 2021). Despite her reputation, Jenny is good-hearted and keeps her river quite neat and tidy.
I was delighted with Jenny’s narrative voice from the very first sentence. This is how you do a first-person narrator.
Jenny pulls Temperance into her river cave full of treasures and they become friends. . .mostly. It’s a troubled friendship, full of misunderstandings. Temperance wants to go back to her family (without being executed for witchcraft again) and needs the help of Jenny’s deep power drawn from the river. They are driven to seeking the assistance of the Fairy King when they fail miserably to defeat the evil Erl King who has possessed Braddock’s body.
For three quests you need at least three questers, and the witty goblin Brackus, who sells treasures from the goblin market from his bottomless sack, makes up a third. It’s his idea to seek out the Fairy King who used to lead the Wild Hunt before he went into retirement. As a traveling salesman, Brackus knows the roads, including the fairy roads, and realizes that they will need to tap into far greater power to have any chance against such a foe.
For a bonus quester we have a dog! Lady Creiddylad, the Fairy Queen, equips the group with magic and advice, like Galadriel in Tolkien’s THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING (July, 1954), only Galadriel didn’t have a tall, rangy Wild Hunt hound named Cavall to send with the Fellowship. Cavall is itching for a good run.
Fairy court, goblin market goods, epic hound dog, found family, Welsh-ish names, epic journeys: GREENTEETH has everything a fantasy fan needs for a few hours of summer pleasure reading.
The twist/big reveal at the end? Magnificent. I felt dumb for not having predicted it given all the clues, but I’m glad I didn’t. Unless I come across some more super-fun reads, GREENTEETH will very likely make my list of top 10 books of 2025.
Reading in context:
Gender-bending ladyknights seem to be a theme in 2025 fantasy novels, and you can add Temperance and Jenny to the list. You won’t want to miss the third installment in the “Legends and Lattes” series by Travis Baldree, BRIGANDS AND BREADKNIVES (Tor/Macmillan, November 11, 2025), in which rattkin bookseller Fern sort-of-accidentally becomes the squire of Astryx, warrior of legend and ballad, or THE EVERLASTING by Alix E. Harrow (Tor/Macmillan, (October 28, 2025), a time-loop extravaganza starring ladyknight Una Everlasting. The romance in THE EVERLASTING had me in tears, and the depth of Harrow’s character development of the villain was astonishing.
What I’m reading now:
THE STRENGTH OF THE FEW by James Islington (Saga/Simon & Schuster, November 11, 2025), the second novel in the “Hierarchy” series.
#Greenteeth #MollyONeill #fantasy #sff #England #IcySedgwick #fae #cozy #WildHunt #LOTR #Tolkien #LegendsAndLattes #BrigandsAndBreadknives #TheEverlasting #AlixEHarrow #magic
#AlixEHarrow #BrigandsAndBreadknives #cozy #England #fae #fantasy #Greenteeth #IcySedgwick #Legends #LegendsAndLattes #LOTR #magic #MollyONeill #sff #TheEverlasting #Tolkien #WildHunt
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Greenteeth
May 20, 2025GREENTEETH rating: four stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐.
What a debut! After yesterday–because I read the cozy fantasy GREENTEETH (Orbit/Hachette, February 25, 2025) in a single day–I’m a new fan of author Molly O’Neill. She knows her myths.
A goblin, a river spirit, and a witch walk into a bar. . .no, actually, they walk into the court of the Fairy King and Queen by way of enchanted fairy roads, and are given three quests in order to craft a magic weapon to defeat the bad guy. Can you resist this premise? You aren’t my people if you can.
A preacher shows up in a medieval English backwater called Chipping Appleby and turns out to be possessed by a wicked and ancient being, the Erl King. He doesn’t condemn Temperance Crump to death by drowning out of mere prejudice against healing women: Temperance doesn’t realize what a powerful sorceress she is, and therefore a threat to “Pastor Braddock’s” nefarious plans. Temperance is saved from death by Jenny Greenteeth, also a very ancient being, who lives in the river. As folklorist and podcaster Icy Sedgwick explains in her “Strange River Folklore: River Gods and Dark Spirits”: “[T]he grindylow appears in British folklore as a cautionary tale. Sometimes known as Jenny Greenteeth, the grindylow lurks in English rivers, ponds and marshes. According to the legends, these nasty critters dragged children into the deepest parts of the rivers if they ventured into the shallows.” (icysedgwick.com, “Folklore,” March 13, 2021). Despite her reputation, Jenny is good-hearted and keeps her river quite neat and tidy.
I was delighted with Jenny’s narrative voice from the very first sentence. This is how you do a first-person narrator.
Jenny pulls Temperance into her river cave full of treasures and they become friends. . .mostly. It’s a troubled friendship, full of misunderstandings. Temperance wants to go back to her family (without being executed for witchcraft again) and needs the help of Jenny’s deep power drawn from the river. They are driven to seeking the assistance of the Fairy King when they fail miserably to defeat the evil Erl King who has possessed Braddock’s body.
For three quests you need at least three questers, and the witty goblin Brackus, who sells treasures from the goblin market from his bottomless sack, makes up a third. It’s his idea to seek out the Fairy King who used to lead the Wild Hunt before he went into retirement. As a traveling salesman, Brackus knows the roads, including the fairy roads, and realizes that they will need to tap into far greater power to have any chance against such a foe.
For a bonus quester we have a dog! Lady Creiddylad, the Fairy Queen, equips the group with magic and advice, like Galadriel in Tolkien’s THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING (July, 1954), only Galadriel didn’t have a tall, rangy Wild Hunt hound named Cavall to send with the Fellowship. Cavall is itching for a good run.
Fairy court, goblin market goods, epic hound dog, found family, Welsh-ish names, epic journeys: GREENTEETH has everything a fantasy fan needs for a few hours of summer pleasure reading.
The twist/big reveal at the end? Magnificent. I felt dumb for not having predicted it given all the clues, but I’m glad I didn’t. Unless I come across some more super-fun reads, GREENTEETH will very likely make my list of top 10 books of 2025.
Reading in context:
Gender-bending ladyknights seem to be a theme in 2025 fantasy novels, and you can add Temperance and Jenny to the list. You won’t want to miss the third installment in the “Legends and Lattes” series by Travis Baldree, BRIGANDS AND BREADKNIVES (Tor/Macmillan, November 11, 2025), in which rattkin bookseller Fern sort-of-accidentally becomes the squire of Astryx, warrior of legend and ballad, or THE EVERLASTING by Alix E. Harrow (Tor/Macmillan, (October 28, 2025), a time-loop extravaganza starring ladyknight Una Everlasting. The romance in THE EVERLASTING had me in tears, and the depth of Harrow’s character development of the villain was astonishing.
What I’m reading now:
THE STRENGTH OF THE FEW by James Islington (Saga/Simon & Schuster, November 11, 2025), the second novel in the “Hierarchy” series.
#Greenteeth #MollyONeill #fantasy #sff #England #IcySedgwick #fae #cozy #WildHunt #LOTR #Tolkien #LegendsAndLattes #BrigandsAndBreadknives #TheEverlasting #AlixEHarrow #magic
#AlixEHarrow #BrigandsAndBreadknives #cozy #England #fae #fantasy #Greenteeth #IcySedgwick #Legends #LegendsAndLattes #LOTR #magic #MollyONeill #sff #TheEverlasting #Tolkien #WildHunt
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Greenteeth
May 20, 2025GREENTEETH rating: four stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐.
What a debut! After yesterday–because I read the cozy fantasy GREENTEETH (Orbit/Hachette, February 25, 2025) in a single day–I’m a new fan of author Molly O’Neill. She knows her myths.
A goblin, a river spirit, and a witch walk into a bar. . .no, actually, they walk into the court of the Fairy King and Queen by way of enchanted fairy roads, and are given three quests in order to craft a magic weapon to defeat the bad guy. Can you resist this premise? You aren’t my people if you can.
A preacher shows up in a medieval English backwater called Chipping Appleby and turns out to be possessed by a wicked and ancient being, the Erl King. He doesn’t condemn Temperance Crump to death by drowning out of mere prejudice against healing women: Temperance doesn’t realize what a powerful sorceress she is, and therefore a threat to “Pastor Braddock’s” nefarious plans. Temperance is saved from death by Jenny Greenteeth, also a very ancient being, who lives in the river. As folklorist and podcaster Icy Sedgwick explains in her “Strange River Folklore: River Gods and Dark Spirits”: “[T]he grindylow appears in British folklore as a cautionary tale. Sometimes known as Jenny Greenteeth, the grindylow lurks in English rivers, ponds and marshes. According to the legends, these nasty critters dragged children into the deepest parts of the rivers if they ventured into the shallows.” (icysedgwick.com, “Folklore,” March 13, 2021). Despite her reputation, Jenny is good-hearted and keeps her river quite neat and tidy.
I was delighted with Jenny’s narrative voice from the very first sentence. This is how you do a first-person narrator.
Jenny pulls Temperance into her river cave full of treasures and they become friends. . .mostly. It’s a troubled friendship, full of misunderstandings. Temperance wants to go back to her family (without being executed for witchcraft again) and needs the help of Jenny’s deep power drawn from the river. They are driven to seeking the assistance of the Fairy King when they fail miserably to defeat the evil Erl King who has possessed Braddock’s body.
For three quests you need at least three questers, and the witty goblin Brackus, who sells treasures from the goblin market from his bottomless sack, makes up a third. It’s his idea to seek out the Fairy King who used to lead the Wild Hunt before he went into retirement. As a traveling salesman, Brackus knows the roads, including the fairy roads, and realizes that they will need to tap into far greater power to have any chance against such a foe.
For a bonus quester we have a dog! Lady Creiddylad, the Fairy Queen, equips the group with magic and advice, like Galadriel in Tolkien’s THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING (July, 1954), only Galadriel didn’t have a tall, rangy Wild Hunt hound named Cavall to send with the Fellowship. Cavall is itching for a good run.
Fairy court, goblin market goods, epic hound dog, found family, Welsh-ish names, epic journeys: GREENTEETH has everything a fantasy fan needs for a few hours of summer pleasure reading.
The twist/big reveal at the end? Magnificent. I felt dumb for not having predicted it given all the clues, but I’m glad I didn’t. Unless I come across some more super-fun reads, GREENTEETH will very likely make my list of top 10 books of 2025.
Reading in context:
Gender-bending ladyknights seem to be a theme in 2025 fantasy novels, and you can add Temperance and Jenny to the list. You won’t want to miss the third installment in the “Legends and Lattes” series by Travis Baldree, BRIGANDS AND BREADKNIVES (Tor/Macmillan, November 11, 2025), in which rattkin bookseller Fern sort-of-accidentally becomes the squire of Astryx, warrior of legend and ballad, or THE EVERLASTING by Alix E. Harrow (Tor/Macmillan, (October 28, 2025), a time-loop extravaganza starring ladyknight Una Everlasting. The romance in THE EVERLASTING had me in tears, and the depth of Harrow’s character development of the villain was astonishing.
What I’m reading now:
THE STRENGTH OF THE FEW by James Islington (Saga/Simon & Schuster, November 11, 2025), the second novel in the “Hierarchy” series.
#Greenteeth #MollyONeill #fantasy #sff #England #IcySedgwick #fae #cozy #WildHunt #LOTR #Tolkien #LegendsAndLattes #BrigandsAndBreadknives #TheEverlasting #AlixEHarrow #magic
#AlixEHarrow #BrigandsAndBreadknives #cozy #England #fae #fantasy #Greenteeth #IcySedgwick #Legends #LegendsAndLattes #LOTR #magic #MollyONeill #sff #TheEverlasting #Tolkien #WildHunt
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RavenCon of Richmond, VA is this weekend. It's an awesome, fan run SFF convention with an emphasis on science & writing. Here's what I'll be doing there: https://thescribblinglion.com/ravencon-2025-is-this-weekend/
#WritingEvents #SFF #SFF_Conventions #AlixEHarrow #TheScribblingLion #SmallPress #SelfPublished #IndieBookstores #RavenCon -
RavenCon of Richmond, VA is this weekend. It's an awesome, fan run SFF convention with an emphasis on science & writing. Here's what I'll be doing there: https://thescribblinglion.com/ravencon-2025-is-this-weekend/
#WritingEvents #SFF #SFF_Conventions #AlixEHarrow #TheScribblingLion #SmallPress #SelfPublished #IndieBookstores #RavenCon -
RavenCon of Richmond, VA is this weekend. It's an awesome, fan run SFF convention with an emphasis on science & writing. Here's what I'll be doing there: https://thescribblinglion.com/ravencon-2025-is-this-weekend/
#WritingEvents #SFF #SFF_Conventions #AlixEHarrow #TheScribblingLion #SmallPress #SelfPublished #IndieBookstores #RavenCon -
RavenCon of Richmond, VA is this weekend. It's an awesome, fan run SFF convention with an emphasis on science & writing. Here's what I'll be doing there: https://thescribblinglion.com/ravencon-2025-is-this-weekend/
#WritingEvents #SFF #SFF_Conventions #AlixEHarrow #TheScribblingLion #SmallPress #SelfPublished #IndieBookstores #RavenCon -
RavenCon of Richmond, VA is this weekend. It's an awesome, fan run SFF convention with an emphasis on science & writing. Here's what I'll be doing there: https://thescribblinglion.com/ravencon-2025-is-this-weekend/
#WritingEvents #SFF #SFF_Conventions #AlixEHarrow #TheScribblingLion #SmallPress #SelfPublished #IndieBookstores #RavenCon -
Choose your fighter: multiverse edition
Alternate universes and traveling between worlds are just plain fun, and finishing reading Natania Barron's 2011 debut novel tonight got me thinking about some of the other media I've loved that had characters traveling between parallel worlds. So let's see. Let's look at three of the different universes on my shelves and pick our favorites.
https://fangirlingthroughliterature.wordpress.com/2024/10/18/choose-your-fighter-multiverse-edition/
#fantasy #blog #JasperFforde #NataniaBarron #AlixEHarrow #ParallelWorlds #AU
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Choose your fighter: multiverse edition
Alternate universes and traveling between worlds are just plain fun, and finishing reading Natania Barron's 2011 debut novel tonight got me thinking about some of the other media I've loved that had characters traveling between parallel worlds. So let's see. Let's look at three of the different universes on my shelves and pick our favorites.
https://fangirlingthroughliterature.wordpress.com/2024/10/18/choose-your-fighter-multiverse-edition/
#fantasy #blog #JasperFforde #NataniaBarron #AlixEHarrow #ParallelWorlds #AU
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Choose your fighter: multiverse edition
Alternate universes and traveling between worlds are just plain fun, and finishing reading Natania Barron's 2011 debut novel tonight got me thinking about some of the other media I've loved that had characters traveling between parallel worlds. So let's see. Let's look at three of the different universes on my shelves and pick our favorites.
https://fangirlingthroughliterature.wordpress.com/2024/10/18/choose-your-fighter-multiverse-edition/
#fantasy #blog #JasperFforde #NataniaBarron #AlixEHarrow #ParallelWorlds #AU
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The Drowning House
June 13, 2024THE DROWNING HOUSE rating: four stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐.
When not reading THE DROWNING HOUSE (Poisoned Pen Press/Sourcebooks, July 23, 2024), I felt myself being lured back onto the island setting, almost as if it were a waking dream. Cherie Priest has a way of creating an atmosphere that carves out permanent space in your consciousness. I can transport myself instantly to the Okefenokee swamp setting of THE TOLL (Tor/Macmillan, 2019), where you have to be very careful which highway bridge you drive across. There is something Flannery O’Connor about Priest’s writing, and I also get some Shirley Jackson vibes.
Thanks to Edelweiss Plus Above the Treeline and Sourcebooks for sending this book to me for review consideration. All opinions are my own.
What’s better than a haunted house? Two haunted houses on a remote island off the coast of Washington, one of which washed up on the beach next to the other one after being magically banished into the ocean 80 years ago. If you can resist that scenario, you clearly are not as warped as I am. THE DROWNING HOUSE boasts these delights:
- estranged, weird, elderly sisters (one of whom is dead and her body missing),
- three young people in an old love triangle (one of whom, Simon, is missing and may or may not be dead),
- a super-scary ghost and several really disturbing ones (who are dead but need to be a lot deader),
- a machine that makes calls to the Dark Side, very steampunk.
The super-scary ghost was the reason the house was consigned to the waves in the first place and he is trying to get his hands on this machine. How is he still alive in any form after 80 years? Pure malice (shiver). The two young people in the love triangle who are neither missing nor dead, Melissa and Leo, are attempting to find their friend Simon, protect the house from the undrowned/undead ghost and figure out what is happening on the island.
Things get pretty gruesome, and the ending is a thrill ride and a half.
It’s also possible, as in THE TOLL, to get stranded and have no escape from this island, so you can add that to the delights list.
Reading in context:
Priest has also written a couple of titles in the Booking Agents paranormal mystery series from Simon & Schuster, GRAVE RESERVATIONS (2022) and FLIGHT RISK (2023), which are very entertaining. I would be delighted to see more titles in this series, but I love Priest’s horror novels too. She has some older work that I haven’t gotten to yet but definitely plan to read, especially the adult novels.
More novels in which characters stay in, or return to, haunted houses because of someone they love, when I am thinking, often audibly, “Get out get out get out!”
MEXICAN GOTHIC by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (love of cousin)
THE SPITE HOUSE by Johnny Compton (love of daughter)
A HOUSE WITH GOOD BONES by T. Kingfisher (love of mother)
STARLING HOUSE by Alix E. Harrow (love of brother); my review in blog post dated April 14, 2023What I’m alternately reading and listening to right now:
THE WITCHES OF NEW YORK by Ami McKay (HarperCollins, 2017) which was pressed into my hand by a bookshop owner at Judy Bug’s Books in Columbus, GA, so I bought it, of course. Spot on, Alek!
#CheriePriest #TheDrowningHouse #TheToll #ShirleyJackson #FlanneryOConnor #BookingAgents #FlightRisk #GraveReservations #MexicanGothic #SilviaMorenoGarcia #TheSpiteHouse #JohnnyCompton #AHouseWithGoodBones #TKingfisher #UrsulaVernon #StarlingHouse #AlixEHarrow
#AHouseWithGoodBones #AlixEHarrow #AlixHarrow #BookingAgents #CheriePriest #FlanneryOConnor #FlightRisk #GraveReservations #HauntedHouse #JohnnyCompton #magic #MexicanGothic #ShirleyJackson #SilviaMorenoGarcia #StarlingHouse #TheDrowningHouse #TheSpiteHouse #TheToll #TKingfisher #UrsulaVernon #witches
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I #AmReading The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow for the Brown Ajahs Bookclub.
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There's no such thing as witches. There used to be, in the wild, dark days before the burnings began, but now witching is nothing but tidy charms and nursery rhymes. But when the Eastwood sisters join the suffragists of New Salem, they begin to pursue the forgotten words and ways that might turn the women's movement into the witch's movement. -
I #AmReading The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow for the Brown Ajahs Bookclub.
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There's no such thing as witches. There used to be, in the wild, dark days before the burnings began, but now witching is nothing but tidy charms and nursery rhymes. But when the Eastwood sisters join the suffragists of New Salem, they begin to pursue the forgotten words and ways that might turn the women's movement into the witch's movement. -
I #AmReading The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow for the Brown Ajahs Bookclub.
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There's no such thing as witches. There used to be, in the wild, dark days before the burnings began, but now witching is nothing but tidy charms and nursery rhymes. But when the Eastwood sisters join the suffragists of New Salem, they begin to pursue the forgotten words and ways that might turn the women's movement into the witch's movement. -
I #AmReading The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow for the Brown Ajahs Bookclub.
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There's no such thing as witches. There used to be, in the wild, dark days before the burnings began, but now witching is nothing but tidy charms and nursery rhymes. But when the Eastwood sisters join the suffragists of New Salem, they begin to pursue the forgotten words and ways that might turn the women's movement into the witch's movement. -
I #AmReading The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow for the Brown Ajahs Bookclub.
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There's no such thing as witches. There used to be, in the wild, dark days before the burnings began, but now witching is nothing but tidy charms and nursery rhymes. But when the Eastwood sisters join the suffragists of New Salem, they begin to pursue the forgotten words and ways that might turn the women's movement into the witch's movement. -
At number 2, The Traitor #BaruCormorant from Seth Dickinson's #masquerade series - intrigue and betrayal coming out the wazoo, gripping and tense, and the best sort of political.
And my favourite book I read this year was The Ten Thousand Doors of January by #AlixEHarrow - a hugely moving book about home and family that came to me at a time when I was deeply sad about losing mine. Stunning, if occasionally a little twee.
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At number 2, The Traitor #BaruCormorant from Seth Dickinson's #masquerade series - intrigue and betrayal coming out the wazoo, gripping and tense, and the best sort of political.
And my favourite book I read this year was The Ten Thousand Doors of January by #AlixEHarrow - a hugely moving book about home and family that came to me at a time when I was deeply sad about losing mine. Stunning, if occasionally a little twee.
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At number 2, The Traitor #BaruCormorant from Seth Dickinson's #masquerade series - intrigue and betrayal coming out the wazoo, gripping and tense, and the best sort of political.
And my favourite book I read this year was The Ten Thousand Doors of January by #AlixEHarrow - a hugely moving book about home and family that came to me at a time when I was deeply sad about losing mine. Stunning, if occasionally a little twee.
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Starling House
Eden is a mining town down on its luck, sat in the shadow of the Gravely’s coal power plant. The only thing it’s known for is the mysterious 19th century children’s author, E. Starling and the house she left behind. No one in town knows the Starlings, but that doesn’t stop the gossip, the town’s bad luck attributed to whoever lurks behind those iron gates.
Opal…#5Stars #alixEHarrow #Review #starlingHouse
https://www.curiositykilledthebookworm.net/2023/12/starling-house/
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I read STARLING HOUSE by #AlixEHarrow months ago when it was a planned October 31 release. It snuck past me and got released October 3, and is the October Reese Book Club pick, and deservedly so! My 5-star review was posted to my blog back in April https://jillsreads.com/starling-house/ @bookstodon #bookstodon #Fantasy #sff #appalachian #SouthernGothic
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I read STARLING HOUSE by #AlixEHarrow months ago when it was a planned October 31 release. It snuck past me and got released October 3, and is the October Reese Book Club pick, and deservedly so! My 5-star review was posted to my blog back in April https://jillsreads.com/starling-house/ @bookstodon #bookstodon #Fantasy #sff #appalachian #SouthernGothic
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I read STARLING HOUSE by #AlixEHarrow months ago when it was a planned October 31 release. It snuck past me and got released October 3, and is the October Reese Book Club pick, and deservedly so! My 5-star review was posted to my blog back in April https://jillsreads.com/starling-house/ @bookstodon #bookstodon #Fantasy #sff #appalachian #SouthernGothic
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I read STARLING HOUSE by #AlixEHarrow months ago when it was a planned October 31 release. It snuck past me and got released October 3, and is the October Reese Book Club pick, and deservedly so! My 5-star review was posted to my blog back in April https://jillsreads.com/starling-house/ @bookstodon #bookstodon #Fantasy #sff #appalachian #SouthernGothic
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I read STARLING HOUSE by #AlixEHarrow months ago when it was a planned October 31 release. It snuck past me and got released October 3, and is the October Reese Book Club pick, and deservedly so! My 5-star review was posted to my blog back in April https://jillsreads.com/starling-house/ @bookstodon #bookstodon #Fantasy #sff #appalachian #SouthernGothic
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What I learned about me when I started reading novels again
My gateway drug was *The Ten Thousand Doors of January* by Alix Harrow. I loved it, then I wondered why, then I figured it out.
#blaugust2023
#atheism
#reading
#fantasy
#AlixEHarrow
#LockedTomb
#WhatImReadinghttps://sfmatheson.blogspot.com/2023/08/what-i-learned-about-me-when-i-started.html
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What I learned about me when I started reading novels again
My gateway drug was *The Ten Thousand Doors of January* by Alix Harrow. I loved it, then I wondered why, then I figured it out.
#blaugust2023
#atheism
#reading
#fantasy
#AlixEHarrow
#LockedTomb
#WhatImReadinghttps://sfmatheson.blogspot.com/2023/08/what-i-learned-about-me-when-i-started.html
