Read LUCY UNDYING by Kiersten White if you love Dracula, retellings, queer stories, horrific mothers, losing yourself, intertwining narratives, epistolary stories, men doing horrific things, butter chicken, cults, trauma responses, intense longing, going to therapy & histories soaked in blood.

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/736804/lucy-undying-by-kiersten-white/

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Read THE INCANDESCENT by Emily Tesh if you love messy bisexuals, magical schools, demon hunters, incredibly specific specialties, beautiful tattoos, containing multitudes, centuries of tradition, pastoral settings, class dynamics, tragic backstories, hot butches on bikes, and a gin & tonic.

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Read ONE ALADDIN TWO LAMPS by Jeanette Winterson if you love creative nonfiction, stories about storytelling, going on a guided journey, the history of oppression & narratives, changing the story, creating new worlds, the power of literature, thoughts about AI & asking "What if?"

(I received a copy of this book for review from the publisher).

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Read SALTCROP by Yume Kitasei if you love novels about climate catastrophe, stories about sisters, mysteries & missing persons, travel narratives & boats, mega-corporations being awful, planting seeds & hoping they'll grow something new, blights & illnesses, going to the ends of the earth & beans.

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250380968/saltcrop/

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Read ADRIFT IN CURRENTS CLEAN & CLEAR (Wayward Children book 10) by Seanan McGuire if you love tortoises & turtles, orphans, children who carry too much, being perfect as you are, the weight of water, Mother Russia, talking animals, Drowned Girls, the lost & lonely, jumping to help others, and finding your place.

(This is Nadya's book, BTW).

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Did a little reread of Nino Cipri's FINNA and DEFEKT. I went to a Book Club in December & didn't get the chance to finish them both (I'd read them in 2024, but love to revisit things).

This novella duology is such a delight! Strange, anti-capitalist, queer.

My reviews fron 2024...

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Read THE WATERS by Bonnie Jo Campbell if you love beautiful prose, wetlands, complicated families, the poetry of women, the violence of brutes, mathematics, babbies, cures, rattlesnakes, towns wrecked by capitalism, nesting dolls, moving tenderly, and secrets never told (until they are).

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Read WHAT STALKS THE DEEP by T. Kingfisher if you love a missing persons case, helping an old friend, the color mauve, SCIENCE!, abandoned mines, definitely not being claustrophobic, mysterious lights, boredom & terror, the whole & fragments, trauma narratives, skeletons, pronouns & dogs.

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First & foremost: if you love Octavia E. Butler's Lilith's Brood series, you're going to love this.

Read OVERGROWTH by Mira Grant if you love alien invasions, questioning what it means to be human, compulsions, transformations, road trips, outsiders, finding your people, stories that mess with your head, making choices, T4T love, cultural literacy, botany, inevitabilities & the color green

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Read SILVER & LEAD by Seanan McGuire if you love our intrepid heroine (Toby Daye), mysteries, pregnancy tales, stolen treasures, adjusting to life after a crisis, poisonings, class struggles, generational trauma rearing its ugly head, good dogs, enraged cats, too much blood, and lots of sandwiches.

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