Award season is truly upon us bookwyrms, and the Subjective Chaos 2021 winners have been chosen! Congratulations to all the winners and to Alix E. Harrow and C. L. Polk in particular for being the first joint winners in the Fantasy category! It was an honour to be asked onto this years panel and hats... Continue Reading →
Announcing the Subjective Chaos Kind of Awards Finalists 2021!
It seems both forever ago and only yesterday we were announcing this year's Subjective Chaos nominees. Well, after seven months of reading the longlists, the panel have voted for our finalists! BEST FANTASY FINALISTS THE ONCE AND FUTURE WITCHES by Alix E. Harrow & THE MIDNIGHT BARGAIN by C. L. Polk BEST SCIENCE FICTION FINALISTS... Continue Reading →
Review: THE DRAGON REPUBLIC (The Poppy War #2) by R. F. Kuang
I came out of reading The Poppy War a little bit underwhelmed by the writing, but interested enough in Rin and the story to want to carry on reading the series. I definitely wanted to know how Rin was going to respond to the fall out of her mic-dropping actions at the end of that... Continue Reading →
Review: THE POPPY WAR (The Poppy War #1) by R. F. Kuang
I've been looking forward to reading THE POPPY WAR for a good long while now. An East-Asian inspired grimdark fantasy based on the horrors of the second Sino-Japanese War and the Nanjing Massacre with a main character loosely based on Mao Zedong drew me like a moth to a flame. It's a book that's had... Continue Reading →