If On a Winter’s Night, a Traveler…
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Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer
A question that recurs while reading this book is, to what end complexity? It feels quite clear that Ada Palmer loves this world, loves to play with the ideas, and to embody the world, with all the rules that she has set up, with absolute authenticity. And yes, there is the question of legibility. On…
The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake
The Atlas Six starts out strong–a kind of Umbrella Academy meets Mysterious Benedict Society meets Gossip Girls meets Harry Potter meets The Magicians meets X-Men First Class meets… you get the idea… mash-up–with promising powers/gifts/magics and characters. There is the requisite unknown benefactor inducting new classes of young adult magicians into a mysterious society, where…
The Maleficent Seven by Cameron Johnston
“The Maleficent Seven” is a kind of A. Lee Martinez / Larry Correia type popcorn dark fantasy novel. Based on the title, it’s intended as a play on the Magnificent Seven, bad guys who are enlisted against their will to do good against unsurmountable odds. The structure of “getting the gang back together” is the…
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