B-Side

I read through the Broken Earth trilogy after it got its third Hugo in a row, and while that wasn't entirely my bag, it was well written and made me hungry for more of Jemisin's writing. This dropped onto my Kindle just in time.

Like most short story collections, this has a few misses, but dang, the hits are great. I heard NK Jemisin read an in-progress version of “The Ones Who Stay and Fight”, the story that opens the collection, earlier this year and it's just as great in its final form. These do a great job of reflecting real issues in our current world through a fantastic lens, which is all I ask of sci-fi/fantasy. Highly recommended.

I applaud the meta approach to a meta album, but this is a case where I wanted the 33 1/3 for this album to go a little more behind-the-scenes of its creation and release.

Thanks to NetGalley and Doubleday for the ARC of this title.

3.5/5 stars

This really nails its setting of Edinburgh Fringe Fest and all the chaos that entails. I was initially confused by its choice of narrator, but putting that lens in the hands of someone outside the main drama really pays off as the plot goes along.

Thanks to NetGalley and ECW Press for the ARC of this title

I've enjoyed other entries in this series, but this one left me a little disappointed by the end - I love the author's enthusiasm for reading Clueless as a rich text, and they've clearly got a lot to say, but I wanted a little more synthesis of their additional sources rather than just giving us their text as quotes and asking us as readers to do all the connecting of dots.

short, sharp, savage