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Only Good Indians, The

When Prey Becomes Predator Author: Stephen Graham Jones Have you ever been afraid of dinner’s vengeance? I’m not talking about indigestion or comically bad stomach times . . . but about beef getting revenge the old-fashioned way – by resurrecting itself as a basketball playing Elk Headed woman monster with the intention to kill. Not high on your fear list? Well, put down that Big Mac and saddle up for The Only Good Indians, where dinner shows up ten years later with some supernatural murder plans and a whole lotta dribbling. I’ve been avoiding this surprisingly acclaimed book for years because [...]

2024-11-04T18:27:31-07:00November 4th, 2024|Tags: , , , , |

Star-Touched Queen, The

Fate, Love, and Demon Horses Author: Roshani Chokshi Maya’s horoscope has kept her sequestered. She is hated in the harem. Outcast by the other women. After all, her doomed future could spill over onto them, onto their children. She is destined to bring death and destruction, and many think that the kingdom would be better without her presence. Her mother is already dead. Who else is next? The weird thing about prophecy, however, is the twists and turns you take to arrive at a final destiny. On the eve of the destruction of her empire, as Maya prepares to end her [...]

2024-10-27T09:27:27-07:00October 27th, 2024|Tags: , , , , , , , |

Thistlefoot

Chicken Houses and Scattershot Plots Author: Genna Rose Nethercott Baba Yaga is a witch who lives in a house that walks on chicken legs. Her powers are both weird and wonderful, her abilities uncanny, her morality an ephemeral thing. One day she will cure you, the next she’ll strip the skin from your body to make her daughters’ slippers. Her legacy is one of magic, but it’s also one of generational trauma, of haunted memories, of death and destruction. Today, Baba Yaga has two flighty descendants. Isaac Yaga, aka Chameleon Man, was born with the power to emulate anyone, to shed [...]

2024-10-21T10:36:46-07:00October 21st, 2024|Tags: , , , , , |
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