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incipientdreamer's review
adventurous
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A
3.0
bookaneer's review
1.0
Rating and review for Vina Jie-Min Prasad's Black Flowers Blossom.
No clear plot, just a bunch of monster erotica with graphic sex (tentacles included) and vague hard-boiled detective work. Or maybe I am too stupid to understand what it meant. Oh well. I did not enjoy it. I usually love the author's work.
No clear plot, just a bunch of monster erotica with graphic sex (tentacles included) and vague hard-boiled detective work. Or maybe I am too stupid to understand what it meant. Oh well. I did not enjoy it. I usually love the author's work.
rixx's review
4.0
A Time to Reap by Elizabeth Bear was a very solid time travel story, probably even better for people from the US: https://uncannymagazine.com/article/a-time-to-reap/
kristamccracken's review
5.0
Highlights of this issue for me included:
-"A Time to Reap" by Elizabeth Bear (time travel, complicated time lines, beautifully written)
-"Black Flowers Blossom" by Vina Jie-Min Prasad (Fantasy, detectives, inter-species love across time and lives)
-"Without Prayer of the Place in the Forest" by Sonya Taaffee (poetry)
-"The Science, Fiction, and Fantasy of Genre" by Alexandra Erin (essay)
-"A Time to Reap" by Elizabeth Bear (time travel, complicated time lines, beautifully written)
-"Black Flowers Blossom" by Vina Jie-Min Prasad (Fantasy, detectives, inter-species love across time and lives)
-"Without Prayer of the Place in the Forest" by Sonya Taaffee (poetry)
-"The Science, Fiction, and Fantasy of Genre" by Alexandra Erin (essay)
8bitlapras's review
3.0
Fiction
A Time to Reap by Elizabeth Bear: 3.5/5
Nutrition Facts by D.A. Xiaolin Spires: 2.5/5
Black Flowers Blossom by Vina Jie-Min Prasad: 1/5
Peridot and Rain by Laura Anne Gilman: 2/5
A Mindreader's Guide to Surviving Your First Year at the All-Girls Superhero Academy by Jenn Reese: 3.5/5
Non-fiction
The Page and the Prose: Writing Between Prose and Comics by G. Willow Wilson: 4/5
The Science, Fiction, and Fantasy of Genre by Alexandra Erin: 4.5/5
If You've Heard This One Before by Brandon O'Brien: 3/5
As You Know, Bob... by Jeannette Ng: 3/5
Confessions of an Adjacent Geek by Keidra Chaney: 5/5
Poetry
I really liked Manananggal by Sylvia Santiago!
Average rating: 3.2/5, rounded to 3/5
A Time to Reap by Elizabeth Bear: 3.5/5
Nutrition Facts by D.A. Xiaolin Spires: 2.5/5
Black Flowers Blossom by Vina Jie-Min Prasad: 1/5
Peridot and Rain by Laura Anne Gilman: 2/5
A Mindreader's Guide to Surviving Your First Year at the All-Girls Superhero Academy by Jenn Reese: 3.5/5
Non-fiction
The Page and the Prose: Writing Between Prose and Comics by G. Willow Wilson: 4/5
The Science, Fiction, and Fantasy of Genre by Alexandra Erin: 4.5/5
If You've Heard This One Before by Brandon O'Brien: 3/5
As You Know, Bob... by Jeannette Ng: 3/5
Confessions of an Adjacent Geek by Keidra Chaney: 5/5
Poetry
I really liked Manananggal by Sylvia Santiago!
Average rating: 3.2/5, rounded to 3/5
crunden's review
4.0
It’s a wooden box,
ornately carved, beautifully
stained a dark mahogany.
It’s dry as I lift it up
and gently slide out the
tongue-and-groove top.
I started with Annie Neugebauer's 'The Wooden Box', which was really good. Read here.
ornately carved, beautifully
stained a dark mahogany.
It’s dry as I lift it up
and gently slide out the
tongue-and-groove top.
I started with Annie Neugebauer's 'The Wooden Box', which was really good. Read here.
foomple's review
4.0
This review is solely for Elizabeth Bear's "A Time to Reap"
4.5 stars, one of my all-time favorites of Bear's short fiction. Love it and would like to one day have it in a print short story collection of hers.
4.5 stars, one of my all-time favorites of Bear's short fiction. Love it and would like to one day have it in a print short story collection of hers.
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