All tagged speculative fiction
In late February 2021, I decided to start a SFF book club for myself and a few friends, mostly so I could share my love of SFF books with other people. But also, in part, because SFF tends to get overlooked as subject material for book clubs. There is a tendency to assume that because something is “merely” genre fiction, it is not capable of providing the same depth and meaning that a more “literary” style of fiction can provide.
This is, of course, utter bullshit, and you need look no farther than the first book my club read together, The Witch’s Heart by Genevieve Gornichec.
Time to circle back on a book I first reading during the Great Hiatus and recently re-read in the past few months: Circe by Madeline Miller, a retelling of Greek myth focused on that mysterious witch from The Odyssey, who turns men into pigs. Surely, there is more to tell.
Look, if you make a book about witches, chances are, I’m going to want to read it. Those are the rules. And considering how much I enjoyed The Ten Thousand Doors of January, I wasn’t going to let Alix Harrow’s next novel pass by anyway. So here we are.
I started this series during the Great Hiatus (like so many others) and didn’t go back to re-read book one before reading this one, so this one will have to standalone for now until I can circle back. Good news is that these are fun books, so I’ll probably get to it eventually.
Normally, Welcome to Night Vale is precisely my brand of weird. Just a little odd and a little out there, but with an oddly heartwarming core. The eponymous first novel was good; It Devours! was great. Well, I don’t know what I expected from their third novel, but this wasn’t it.
