Book #218 of 2021: When We Were Magic by Sarah Gailey Author Sarah Gailey always has great casual representation of gender and sexuality in their characters, and this YA novel is no exception with its tale of six queer best friends, including the bisexual heroine with two dads. I dig the gutsy premise too, which …
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Book #60 of 2021: The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey This novel raises a few interesting dilemmas of futuristic technology, although it waits so long to establish its sci-fi premise that I think I should probably be circumspect in this review. (I will say that the marketing description of ‘Westworld meets Killing Eve‘ is almost …
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Book #238 of 2020: American Hippo by Sarah Gailey This volume collects two novellas that were previously published independently — but which I hadn’t read before — along with a pair of new short stories in the same setting. Together they present an alternate history of a nineteenth-century America populated by hippopotami, occupying roughly the …
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Book #99 of 2020: Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey This novella sort of feels like it’s over before it’s even begun, but within those sparse pages is a fun snapshot of a post-apocalyptic world and a young lesbian running away to find her place in it. The story reads like a typical western, and …
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Book #108: Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey This debut novel from author Sarah Gailey goes far on its concept of a non-magical detective investigating a murder at a school for young mages, but the worldbuilding is nothing special — more The Magicians than Harry Potter — and the procedural elements could have been a …
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