A review by kirstyreadsblog
Spellhacker by M.K. England

4.0

More of a 3.5

content warnings: grief, mentions of death of parents, poverty, disease/pandemic

Spellhacker follows Diz and her squad of best friends in a world where they had magic freely available and then one day a plague happened which killed a lot of people and made the use of magic restricted. We’re dropped into the story in the middle of a heist. Diz and her friends run jobs to steal the magic from the pipes of the company who controls the magic.

I absolutely loved how queer this book was. One of the squad’s members, Remi, is non-binary and uses they/them pronouns and it is SO normalised in this world. I absolutely loved this. There’s a lot of feminist fantasy books where you see a young woman fighting against a horrible world, and it was nice to see a fantasy world where people aren’t ignorant about gender. There is also an older queer couple who are very lovey-dovey and it was so cute.

Continue my review here: https://kirstyreadsblog.com/2020/01/15/spellhacker-by-m-k-england-review/