Hello! I have two books The first is Trad Wife by Sarah Langan, which is a horror novel leaning into the intrinsic horror of the trad wife concept The second is a review copy of Call Me Traitor by Evarina Maxwell, a privilege. Living weapon and traitor mage, and they're lesbians, obviously

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I loved this book! Review coming soon for Ancillary Review of Books

Hello, Just started Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins, prequel to Hunger Games I haven't revisited that series in a while so I'm interested to see how it holds up My 13 year old niece loves it so that's an endorsement!

The setting is also clever and dark, and it's probably the first SFF book I've read to address the COVID pandemic head on I could have done with the ending having a bit more time to shake out, but it did all come together

The exam geas means they can't talk to others about it. So they have to solve it together as well as getting through exam week It's very tightly plotted, with all of these at the same time: - the murder mystery - a medical mystery - each of their five stories - politics - the group dynamics

Also shout out to Bodies of Magic by Freya Marske It's a magic medical school's final exam week, and you get randomly put into groups of five, the whole group passes or fails together Except this group finds the body of one of their classmates - suicide, accident, or murder - in the exam room

Oh no sorry! I've just started The Wolf and His King by Finn Longmann, which will be the second medieval/early modern gay werewolf book this year (after The Red Winter by Cameron Sullivan, fun but flawed)

Of Mice and Murder by Sally Smith Like a KJ Charles book without the sex, if you can imagine that, the same historical texture and drive for justice

You are correct, also I'd worry about taking my cats with me

I reviewed it for Ancillary Review of Books and really enjoyed it!

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I would read that

Hello! I've just started an ARC of The Queen's Witch by Nancy Kress. A rural cunning woman has just started a quest which will take her to cross paths with Anne Boleyn Her work I know the best is the Hugo and Nebula winning Beggars In Spain, from 1983, so I'm interested to see her fantasy writing

Disappointed I'm not a Christian, not living the Christian housewife dream Impressed with the personal and professional success, the house full of books and cats and art, the number of friends and social life, and the volunteering Basically I have everything she thought she wasn't allowed to want

When I got one like that I panicked, but it turned out I was meant to open the capsule and mix the powder into food

As a footnote, if a mechanism exists to deprive ANY group of civil rights—no matter how reviled they are, and by however many—then that mechanism WILL eventually be weaponized against YOU. You do not have to be trans or pro-trans to be against deprivation of anyone's rights. (PS: I am pro-trans.)