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Review: The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa

A square crop of the front cover of The Memory Police by Yoko Ozawa.
The front cover of The Memory Police is rather striking. Or would be without the review blurbs littering the front, one of my pet peeves. The edition I read didn’t have them but I couldn’t find a high res image of that front cover. The front jacket art and design is by Tyler Comrie.

“Would you really like to remember all the things you’ve lost?” R asked. ​

​I told him the truth. “I don’t know. Because I don’t even know what it is I should be remembering. What’s gone is gone completely. I have no seeds inside me, waiting to sprout again. I have to make do with a hollow heart full of holes. That’s why I’m jealous of your heart, one that offers some resistance, that is tantalizingly transparent and yet not, that seems to change as the light shines on it at different angles.”

page 82
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Review: Seasons of Glass and Iron by Amal El-Mohtar

A square crop of the front cover of Seasons of Glass and Iron.
I really love the jacket art and design of Seasons of Glass and Iron, especially the front illustration. The art and design was done by Faceout Studio, Spencer Fuller.

She wants to say, what you’re missing is that I’ve been happy. What you’re missing is that for the first time in years I don’t feel like a disease waiting to be happy or a problem to be solved until I’m back in the now, until she and I are apart.

page 44, from the short story named Madeleine
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Review: The Red Winter by Cameron Sullivan

A square crop of the front cover of The Red Winter by Cameron Sullivan.
I really love the front cover design of The Red Winter, its a shame I cannot have both the text and the illustration at the bottom in the square crop.

I had the thought, for the first time in months, that life without death is a miserable gift.

page 4, Sebastian
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Review: Weavingshaw by Heba Al-Wasity

A square crop of the front cover of Weavingshaw by Heba Al-Wasity
There is something about the symmetry of this cover design for Weavingshaw that is very appealing.

The house was immense, and built like a fortress to withstand violent sieges. More than forty darkened windows watched their insignificant carriage pull up to the front, resembling dilated eyes unblinking in silent judgement. Ivy draped the pale limestone bricks, and wild roses tangled up from the soil. The single turret towered over them, parting the mist. To the left were the burned remnants of a crumbling tower, the walls decaying and blackened. Deathgrips, their still-violet petals a contrast to the dull browns of late autumn, grew like a moat surrounding the house, as if to ward away any wolves that might be growling at the edge of the forest.

page 253
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Review: The Poet Empress by Shen Tao

A square crop of the front cover of The Poet Empress by Shen Tao.
I really love this front cover design for The Poet Empress, it is very striking! The art was done by Kelly Chong.

Let me burn and burn until the whole empire is devoured, along with all its corruption, its villainy, its rot. Let me burn and burn until this night is not remembered, nor this year, nor this dynasty, until even history is buried in ash. And then maybe green things would grow again.

page 267, Maro
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