ChaiMar 25 minreview: red, white & royal blue by casey mcquistonAh, yes, the one trope that sings to me the most: rivals to “if we never have to be in the same vicinity as each other, it'll be too...
ChaiFeb 206 minreview: gods of jade and shadow by silvia moreno-garcia Gods of Jade and Shadow feels told rather than read, and it pulled me back into the memory of the stories my mother used to tell me. I...
ChaiFeb 106 minreview: the space between worlds by micaiah johnson“Have you encountered any others who have truly met themselves?” This line from Carmen Maria Machado’s short-story collection Her Body...
ChaiFeb 45 minreview: mexican gothic by silvia moreno-garciaMexican Gothic is a sublime work of post-colonial gothic. It’s a story that unsettled me so effectively I found myself, on more than one...
ChaiJan 313 minreview: the bear and the nightingale by katherine arden A large pleasure in re-reading a favorite book is to experience that sense of almost-newness: to recognize and relive everything again...
ChaiJan 312 minreview: black sun by rebecca roanhorse It's hard to talk about this book because it is so many things at once. It's a heady epic and an intimate portrait of people wracked with...
ChaiJan 234 minreview: the traitor baru cormorant by seth dickinsonHow do you talk about a book that has completely obliterated your capacity for language? For days after I finished reading The Traitor...
ChaiJan 222 minreview: tender by sofia samatarI am incapable of reading anything Sofia Samatar writes without the tumbling headlong desire to put my whole body into her words, to...
ChaiJan 223 minreview: a spindle splintered by alix e. harrowAlix. E. Harrow is one of my auto-buy authors, and her debut novel, The Ten Thousand Doors of January—a book about stories and doors and...
ChaiJan 202 minreview: summer sons by lee mandeloThis book seduced me with its promise of spooky times and long stretches of repressed miserable queer longings and subsequently hooked...