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Just another I’ve-heard-it’s-fantastic book languishing on my TBR... one day I will actually organise my books so I know which I’ve read and which I haven’t but today is not that day!
After stubbornly refusing to DNF Melmoth the Wanderer I have finally put it down because I read the first page of Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars and fell in love and had to read the rest asap. It’s my favourite kind of book - semi-autobiographical surrealist fantasy - and that COVER!💕
I started reading this last month and I’m only halfway through so to say this is a slog is a bit of an understatement, but I’ve convinced myself its necessary research for the novel I’m working on so my stubbornness is unlikely to let me DNF it any time soon!
i only just found out that this, the last volume of one of my favourite comic series’, had been out for months! I was pretty satisfied with how it wrapped up and got to see my favourite characters again 💕
I finished my reread of Freshwater only to find the author has a new book out! So far it’s holding up, but Freshwater had such a visceral and marrow-deep impact that I really cannot make comparisons. And nor do I want to! I’ve really enjoyed what I’ve read so far and Vivek Ohi is really proving what Freshwater promised - Akwaeke Emezi is an amazing writer and you should read their stuff.
I’m nearly 3/4 through the last book in this series and trying to decide if it’s worth appeasing the completionist in me and continuing the slog. Being an old fantasy series I thought I was prepared for the racism but the last book really ups the ante - complete with actual black face and whole paragraphs about how complacent and “dull-witted” the asian-coded race is. Sometimes it’s easy to just kind of roll your eyes with some of the classic fantasy series’ but I’m reaching my limit... maybe I should just go straight into my planned reread of Akwaeke Emezi’s Freshwater.

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