dawn.vogel | September 11, 2024
The Strange Locations anthology, edited by Marissa Van Uden (Apex Book Company, 2024), is a limited release collection of dark speculative travel guides told in microfiction format. Tiny and beautifully crafted, each of these thirty brief tales hints at a larger story of an unusual place. There were a few pieces that really stood out […]
dawn.vogel | August 28, 2024
Alex Jeffers’ A Mourning Coat (Neon Hemlock, 2024) is a lushly written, cozy novella about what happens after the death of a loved one for whom you gave up much of your own life. Set in a world just slightly removed from our own, with a minimal bit of contemporary fantasy elements, the story weaves together […]
dawn.vogel | August 21, 2024
Rich Larson’s The Sky Didn’t Load Today and Other Glitches (Shacklebound Books, 2024) is a brilliant collection of dark sci-fi flash fiction. With fantastic characters and killer twists, this collection is sure to delight fans of the genre and format! As with most collections, I have a number of favorites, but I enjoyed all of the […]
dawn.vogel | August 7, 2024
A. D. Sui’s The Dragonfly Gambit (Neon Hemlock Press, 2024) is a twisty, keeps you guessing, sci-fi novella with an unreliable narrator and a rich cast of characters who all want something from each other and will go to any lengths to get it! Nez was a skilled pilot until an accident left her nearly dead […]
dawn.vogel | July 31, 2024
Sienna Tristen’s hortus animarum: a new herbal for the queer heart (Frog Hollow Press, 2022; reprinted 2024) is a gorgeous chapbook of plant-related prose poetry with numerous queer themes running through them. While I was a little surprised to find all of the poems in this collection were prose poetry (with the exception of the […]
dawn.vogel | July 24, 2024
(Yes, I’m aware that my title here is non-specific as to WHICH Lego Star Wars I’m talking about. This is primarily because I don’t know. Also, this is one of the rare times I’m talking about a game I DID play. Briefly.) All of my biological nieces and nephews were born in the twenty-first century. […]
dawn.vogel | July 17, 2024
Elijah Kinch Spector’s Kalyna the Soothsayer (Erewhon Books, 2022), is a sweeping secondary world fantasy novel featuring high stakes, political intrigue, and loads of deception. Kalyna’s father and grandmother both had the Gift, the ability to see the future of people with whom they are not close. However, Kalyna was born without it, a fact her […]
dawn.vogel | July 3, 2024
Jeremy recently told me about Girlfriend Review, which is a YouTube channel where a video gamer’s girlfriend (now wife) talks about video games that her boyfriend/husband is playing. And he suggested that maybe this was something I might do on my blog (since there’s no way in heck I’m doing this on YouTube or Twitch […]
dawn.vogel | June 26, 2024
I finally got to read The Forest of Stolen Girls by June Hur (Feiwel & Friends, 2021), which is her second historical fiction young adult mystery novel, set in fifteenth century Korea on the island of Jeju. This is the third of Hur’s books I’ve read, and I adored it just as much as I loved […]
dawn.vogel | June 12, 2024
Reading: Mostly books to review! Watching: The first half of Bridgerton season 3 has been our main TV show, parceled out slowly so as to have enough to get to the second half of the season (which drops tomorrow!). I’ve also been watching some of the panels I couldn’t make this past weekend from WriteHive and […]
