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Jun 10, 2024 | 
bookriot.com | Aliette de Bodard |Rachel Brittain
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Romantasy is taking the book world—and my TikTok FYP—by storm. But, as is all too often the case, so many of the books being touted are very heterosexual. That is not for lack of LGBTQ romantasy books, though. In fact, several of my favorite romantasy books are queer.
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Apr 22, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Shaun Hamill |Henry H. Neff |Rebecca Fraimow |Aliette de Bodard
Shaun Hamill. Pantheon, $29 (496p) ISBN 978-0-593-31725-9Hamill (A Cosmology of Monsters) returns with a dark and enchanting account of four friends whose dabbling in the supernatural as teenagers threatens their present happiness. In the 1990s, Hal, Athena, Erin, and Peter discover the Dissonance, which enables them to transform negative emotions into great feats of magic, and form a power-hungry coven.
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Apr 10, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Aliette de Bodard |Mark Lawrence |Chuck Tingle |Seanan McGuire
Christopher Buehlman. Tor, $28.99 (416p) ISBN 978-1-250-88767-2Buehlman builds on the lore of his Blacktongue series with this thrilling prequel to The Blacktongue Thief. It’s presented as the journal of Galva dom Braga, who recalls her journey to and experiences in the goblin wars, dwelling on memories of late friends and lovers and supplementing her account with letters from family members.
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Dec 19, 2023 | 
likewise.com | Lana Harper |Alexis Hall |Melissa Karibian |Aliette de Bodard
PixThis standalone sapphic romance fantasy follows a princess with a secret power who falls in love with a girl who's someone else's engagee. It's an enthralling read full of magic, forbidden love, and political intrigue. To add a comment, download the Likewise app from your device's app store. PixAn epic standalone high fantasy featuring a same-sex romance at its heart.
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Oct 22, 2023 | 
cavanscott.substack.com | Aliette de Bodard |Cavan Scott
Every week, a top writer, artist or creator reveals how they’d fill their perfect Sunday, sharing their favourite comfort reads, movies, food… anything that would make their weekend great. Today, it’s the turn of A Fire Born of Exile author, Aliette de Bodard. Aliette’s perfect Sunday… brunchI'm really not a breakfast person (I tend not to eat in the morning), so I'd be having tea.
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Sep 7, 2023 | 
storybundle.com | Aliette de Bodard |James Blaylock |Cassandra Khaw |Yoon Ha Lee
Obsidian and Blood 1: Servant of the Underworld by Aliette de Bodard The Elfin Ship by James P.
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Aug 2, 2023 | 
audiofilemagazine.com | Aliette de Bodard
Jennifer Aquino's expressive narration allows listeners to become immersed in this fiery political fantasy. Thanh was brought to a rival kingdom as a political hostage. While there, she had an affair with Princess Eldris, heir to that kingdom, and almost died in a supernatural fire. She returned home a much more introverted person. Now Eldris is proposing marriage to Thanh. But Thanh can't stop thinking about the mysterious girl who helped her escape the fire.
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Jul 21, 2023 | 
kobo.com | Aliette de Bodard
The Scattered Pearls Belt is a string of habitats on the edge of a huge galactic empire—a glittering, decadent society rife with corruption. Now, one of its victims—Quỳnh, a scholar betrayed and left for dead—has come back for her revenge, under the guise of the glamorous and enigmatic Alchemist of Streams and Hills.
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Jul 7, 2023 | 
netgalley.co.uk | Aliette de Bodard
The Scattered Pearls Belt is a string of habitats under tight military rule . . . where the powerful have become all too comfortable in their positions, and their corruption. But change is coming, with the arrival of Quynh: the mysterious and enigmatic Alchemist of Streams and Hills. To Minh, daughter of the ruling prefect of the Belt, Quynh represents a chance for escape. To Hoà, a destitute engineer, Quynh has a mysterious link to her own past . . . and holds a deeper, more sensual appeal.
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May 2, 2023 | 
uncannymagazine.com | Aliette de Bodard |Clockpunk Studios
Thuận Lộc stared at the cup. It was dark, and mottled with the characteristic patterning of silver-eye fungus. The tea inside was trembling—the faint vibrations from the Mausoleum, the dead ships’ atrophied motors that would never again allow them to hang, weightless, among the stars. Even now—even standing far away from it in that small shed made of scrap metal and recycled filters—even now, that place could still reach her. A fitting reminder of her life so far, she supposed.
