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 […]
dawn.vogel | June 5, 2024
Addison Smith’s Fractured Realities (2024) is another great collection of sci-fi and fantasy fiction in small stories. There’s a mix of drabbles, microfiction, flash fiction, and a few short stories, with a trend toward stories that pack a lot of emotion into few words. The stories in this collection include a number of previously published stories […]
dawn.vogel | May 15, 2024
A.Z. Louise’s Off-Time Jive (Neon Hemlock, 2023) is a gorgeous fantastical history, detective novella with fascinating characters and a great twist at the end! Set in an alternate version of the Harlem Renaissance, the story weaves deftly between magical dark academia and everyday people going about their lives. The main character, Bessie Knox (who mostly goes […]
dawn.vogel | May 8, 2024
Reading: I’ve actually been really bad about this lately. Work has been hectic, with lots of editing, so the last thing I want to do in the evenings is read. I need to get back on track with that, though, because those books won’t review themselves! Watching: It’s been a whole lot of K-pop lately, […]
