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Yuyine
Après avoir été complètement conquise par les deux premiers tomes, je me sus enfin plongée dans le dernier tome de la trilogie des Cités divines, La cité des miracles de Robert Jackson Bennett chez Albin Michel Imaginaire.

Conclusion à cette formidable saga de fantasy/steampunk d’une originalité rare, La cité des miracles propose un récit plus mélancolique qui dose bien l’action, la tension mais aussi l’émotion. L’auteur y explore un peu plus son univers riche et propose des réflexions sur la nature humaine mais aussi le deuil ou le pouvoir. Malgré quelques longueurs initiales, j’ai été vite emportée dans cette fin magnifique où, malgré les ombres de son intrigue, j’ai eu des étoiles dans les yeux. Avis complet sur le blog : https://yuyine.be/node/1331

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Livre posé dans la pénombre entouré de bougies allumées qui l'éclairent. La couverture de La cité des miracles montre une silhouette sur un promontoire en ruines, lanterne et lame à la main. Au coeur des ruines, une ombre gigantesque aux yeux brillants semble avancer vers la silhouette.
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J. Scott Coatsworth, Author

Scott reviews "Flashes in Time" by Mikko Rauhala:

"This short story collection contains sixteen fairly short works of speculative fiction... I enjoyed the entire collection, even if some of them resonated a little more strongly with me than others. I highly recommend this collection - give it a try. You won't be disappointed."

jscottcoatsworth.com/review-fl

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Hawksquill

Book 23 of 2025

Isola by Allegra Goodman

3 stars

I went into this totally blind, and when I discovered it was based on real historical events, I had to resist the urge to research the true story to find out what happened. I'm so glad I did, because for me the plotting and suspense was the best part. The prose felt weirdly shallow and not like a good choice for the 16th century, and the characters were also a little two-dimensional, especially the antagonist. I did love the way Goodman created an explanation for why the surviving historical accounts vary pretty drastically. She handled that ambiguity creatively, and it also tied in nicely with some of her themes.

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The cover of Isola. A woman in a long, old-fashioned dress stands alone on a cliff overlooking the see. The tile is printed vertically in large capital aqua letters.
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Queer Sci Fi

QSFer Andrew J. Peters has a new gay fantasy book out, The Sim Ru Prophecy.

Now a fugitive from two murder investigations in New York City and a bizarre, big cat attack at a bank in Barbados, Jacks, a werecougar, flees to South America to find the capitán of a militant group of werecat dissidents, rumored to have a central base deep in the Amazon. The world is on...

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Taylor Drew

My June reading log is coming, but first I had to get out my review of the absolutely stunning Mad Sisters of Esi by Tashan Mehta. This book was published in India awhile ago and I wanted to read it then, so I was ecstatic to see a US publisher had picked it up for publication.

It was so good. I don't know exactly what I was expecting, but a tale of proportions this epic within a single book was not it.

Here's to the mad sisters of Esi. And here's to being mad. It wouldn't hurt for all of us to be a bit less logical and a bit more mad.

taylordrew.me/mad-sisters-of-e

Taylor Drew - Japanese to English Translatormad sisters of esi by tashan mehtaLife feels like it's been absolutely off the charts lately. Some of that is, of course, because of what's going on globally in politics. But on the other sid...
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J. Scott Coatsworth, Author

QSFer Karenna Colcroft has a new MM paranormal romance out: Sorry about the Seitan.

Anax Tobias Rogan, ruler of all werewolves in the United States, has never liked Christmas. But this year, his mate, vegan werewolf Kyle Slidell, and their young guard Quinn Boucher are eager to celebrate, and Tobias is trying to find the holiday spirit. ...

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Sorry About the Seitan - Karenna Colcroft
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Ramon van Dam

Book review: The Naked Brewer: Fearless Homebrewing Tips, Tricks & Rule-breaking Recipes - Christina Perozzi & Hallie Beaune

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goodreads.com/review/show/5243

www.goodreads.comRamon van Dam's review of The Naked Brewer3/5: This book is primarily a collection of a couple dozen homebrew recipes, with little else to offer. Given the title, I expected more in the way of tips, techniques, or brewing insights, but the brief explanatory sections lacked some depth. The recipes themselves are fairly standard, though a few variations stood out and offered some interesting ideas - I did bookmark a couple that caught my attention. However, this isn't a book I would recommend to beginners. It doesn't provide the foundational knowledge or context that new brewers need, and the repeated brewing instructions across recipes ...
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Terence Eden

🆕 blog! “Book Review: The World After Amazon - Stories from Amazon Workers by Xenia Benivolski”
★★★☆☆

This is a brilliant idea for a short story collection. Gather a group of non-writers, all of whom have experienced the dystopia of working for Amazon, and support them to write speculative science fiction. Given how futuristic…

👀 Read more: shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/07/book-
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Hawksquill

Book 22 of 2025

The Translator by John Crowley

4 stars

It's truly impressive how deftly Crowley can move between genres and styles while still retaining his signature eloquence and emotional intelligence. I loved the themes of translation/transformation, coming of age, Cold War paranoia, and the sharply written dialogue. Also, I learned so much from the chapters that featured lost children in the USSR.

There was something missing for me, though, and I can't quite put my finger on it. Perhaps it's just because I've never found poetry as moving as prose. There were quite a few sections about technical poetry stuff like rhyme schemes, plus several full original poems included in the text. It would probably be much more compelling for a poetry lover.

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Cover of the Translator by John Crowley. On the right, a white woman wearing ~1960s clothes and reading an open book. She stands in front of an arch which creates a striking pattern accentuated by her silhouette.
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QueeRomance Ink

Jay reviews "To Defend a Damaged Duke" by Fearne Hill, Regency Rossingley book 2:

"Plenty of action, family drama, and sex, both anticipated and explicit. It's all quite beautifully written - I loved every moment of this story. Fans of Regency romance will be captivated by this book."

queeromanceink.com/2025/07/08/

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