Category Archives: sf/f

My July Reading Log

Posted on August 11, 2023 by Victoria Janssen

Fiction: These Prisoning Hills by Christopher Rowe is an atmospheric novella set in a post-apocalyptic Kentucky. The United States, or at least some of the Southern states, have been devastated by a war with an AI, who created the Voluntary … Continue reading →

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#TBRChallenge – Opposites Attract: A Half-Built Garden by Ruthanna Emrys

Posted on July 19, 2023 by Victoria Janssen

A Half-Built Garden by Ruthanna Emrys has solarpunk, hopepunk, and friendly aliens who nevertheless have a different perspective on saving your planet versus leaving it behind. As I’ve loved all of Emrys’ previous novels, I snapped this one up and … Continue reading →

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#TBRChallenge – Love Is Love: The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune

Posted on June 21, 2023 by Victoria Janssen

The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune was a gift from a friend who is a bookseller. I’m glad I made the time to read it; it’s a very soft, hopeful novel set in an alternate world, roughly … Continue reading →

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My May Reading Log

Posted on June 10, 2023 by Victoria Janssen

Fiction: The Unraveling by Benjamin Rosenbaum is set in a far future in a semi-utopian habitat where people (I assume humans) have two genders, Vail (ve, vir) and Staid (ze, zir); they still use the terms “Mother” and “Father” but … Continue reading →

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#TBRChallenge – Unusual Historical: Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark

Posted on April 19, 2023 by Victoria Janssen

Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark is a novella set in 1922 Georgia, mostly in Macon with a set piece at Stone Mountain. It’s a dark fantasy that includes body horror, in which white supremacists use the initial release of … Continue reading →

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My March Reading Log

Posted on April 14, 2023 by Victoria Janssen

Fiction: The Iron Princess by Barbara Hambly is her first fantasy novel in about a decade and a half. To me, it had elements that reminded me of both the Darwath books and the Windrose Chronicles; it’s likely meant to … Continue reading →

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My February Reading Log

Posted on March 10, 2023 by Victoria Janssen

Fiction: The Iron Children by Rebecca Fraimow will be out in early April; I read an ARC via Netgalley. In this novella, two countries are at war. The larger and more powerful Levastani want to take back the smaller country, … Continue reading →

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I Heart SapphFic Reading Challenge Week 4: Spaceship / Space Station

Posted on January 30, 2023 by Victoria Janssen

Finding Refuge is featured this week in the I Heart SapphFic Reading Challenge Week 4: Spaceship / Space Station! I’ll be visiting the I Heart SapphFic Reader Group on Facebook on and off all week, and will be giving away … Continue reading →

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#TBRChallenge – Starting Over: A Paradigm of Earth by Candas Jane Dorsey

Posted on January 18, 2023 by Victoria Janssen

A Paradigm of Earth by Candas Jane Dorsey is a 2001 book which begins with several traumatic events told in a lowkey voice of depression. Morgan Shelby works with children who have severely disfiguring birth defects. Despite the first sentence … Continue reading →

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#TBRChallenge – Lies: The Conductors by Nicole Glover

Posted on November 16, 2022 by Victoria Janssen

I chose The Conductors by Nicole Glover for the “Lies” theme because it’s a murder mystery. However, it turned out to fit the theme in other ways as well: many of the suspects rewrote themselves and their lives to some … Continue reading →

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