Book Review: The Daughters’ War by Christopher Buehlman

Book #125 of 2024: The Daughters’ War by Christopher Buehlman An excellent and appreciably queer new prequel to 2021’s The Blacktongue Priest, although the two stories are so standalone that they could probably be read in either order. Approaching them by release date, as I have, merely underscores the tragic nature of the present title: …

Book Review: The Blacktongue Thief by Christopher Buehlman

Book #95 of 2023: The Blacktongue Thief by Christopher Buehlman (Blacktongue #1) This 2021 fantasy debut has all the gore of the grimdark subgenre, but it skillfully avoids the cynical nihilism that I’d consider typical of such properties. Instead, the tone here is more akin to The Lies of Locke Lamora — archly comic and …

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