Review: Slow Gods by Claire North

A square crop of the front cover of Slow Gods by Claire North.
The square crop for the cover of Slow Gods is annoying, I wish the two words of the title were spaced out just a little closer so they fit in the square frame.

For those who lived; for those who died. For those who fled; for those who stayed behind. For those who sacrificed everything so others might live; for those who are waiting for you and the songs you carry far out in the dark.

page 201
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Review: I, Medusa by Ayana Gray

A square crop of the front cover of I, Medusa by Ayana Gray.
I rather like the front cover design for I, Medusa. The side portrait of Medusa is particularly striking.

As the world fades, I find myself wondering if perhaps purpose is not a single thing one finds, but rather a thing one finds over and over again. I’m only eighteen, but I’ve already had so many purposes. I have been a mortal girl whose purpose was to marry well. I have been a priestess whose purpose was to serve. I have been a monster whose purpose was to avenge. I find that I’m excited to learn what my next purpose will be.
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​And that is enough.

page 312
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Review: Woodworking by Emily St. James

A square crop of the front cover of Woodworking by Emily St. James.
I really like the cover design of Woodworking, it captures the feelings and themes of the book very well.

She could no longer fantasize about being with a woman without simultaneously fantasizing about being her, the two thoughts intrinsically bound up in each other. She longed to dissolve into a diaspora of herself, her molecules, a part of every woman she had seen on the sidewalk or in the store or on a magazine cover, every woman she had longed to understand on some level she felt frustrated in her inability to articulate. She wanted to tell them how lucky they were. She knew they wouldn’t get it.

page 125, Erica
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