Books read in April 2021

[usuallyhats]

Servant of the Underworld - Aliette de Bodard
The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick - Mallory O'Meara
Harbinger of the Storm - Aliette de Bodard
Master of the House of Darts - Aliette de Bodard
The Disappearance of Ember Crow - Ambelin Kwaymullina
The Gilded Ones - Namina Forna
A Desolation Called Peace - Arkady Martine
The Split - Laura Kay
Thomas the Rhymer - Ellen Kushner

Not much I feel like saying this month:

- I really loved A Desolation Called Peace and would read a thousand more books like it.

- The Lady from the Black Lagoon was a fascinating and very readable exploration of both Milicent Patrick's life and the author's journey to uncover it.

- For the most part I thoroughly enjoyed Aliette de Bodard's Obsidian and Blood trilogy: rich worldbuilding and some really interesting characters, plus almost no romance. \o/ The one caveat I have is that the final book is quite plague heavy, and the main character spends a lot of time insisting that he doesn't need to isolate because it's a magical plague so surely that can't be how it spreads, which is... not quite the 2021 mood.

Short story-wise I really liked EH Timm's aroace Medusa story, Create My Own Perfection.

Comments

[jb_slasher]

I have A Desolation Called Peace waiting on my TBR pile. Soon!

I read The Lady from the Black Lagoon last year for the Hugos and enjoyed it. My only really small quibble with the book was that I felt the two separate journeys clash at times. But that might have been due to me reading it so quickly. It was a really compelling and fast read.

[usuallyhats]

I felt that a bit too, but I was enjoying both journeys so much that it didn't bother me as much as it might have. It really was incredibly readable!