Thank you so so much to Tor.com for sending me an ARC for review!

I am pretty sure that every single Tor.com novella that I’ve read I’ve rated 4 or 5 stars. So when they reached out to me to see if I was interested in this book, my answer was “ummm duh.” Okay fine, I didn’t say exactly that but that’s what I was thinking! I was also excited because though I have read one of Adrian Tchaikovsky’s fantasy novels, I hadn’t read any of his science fiction. He seems to be much more well known for that, so I jumped at the chance.

If you follow my bookstagram (and maybe I’ve mentioned it here too?) then you know I am on a perpetual quest to read all the books I own. This year I’ve decided to make a VERY concerted effort, so I’m actually very closely tracking my owned books and my acquired books.

I realized I own quite a few first books in a series, so I made this post to talk about new series that I wanna start. They all sound so good and I’m super excited!! Please do let me know if you’ve read any of them, and what you thought.

Since I haven’t read them, I’m just going to post the link to them with the synopsis from Goodreads!

One of my favorite type of books to read is retellings, of any kind (though diverse ones are always better). Mythology, fairytales, classics, etc; I will literally consume it all. There have been a lot of new releases that are retellings, so I thought I’d make a post about my favorite ones I’ve read, and ones that I’m excited to read! I also wanted to make sure that I included adult SFF retellings. It seems that most of the popular ones out there are YA, but never fear, adult retelling fans! I am here to help you. And me. Mostly I made this list for me 😂.

Okay so that premise right?? It’s portal fantasy (well, portal science fiction) aka one of my favorite things! Overall I really enjoyed this book, but was ultimately thrown off a little bit by the ending. I do recommend it – it’s a wonderful adventure and I’m definitely looking forward to more by this author. So let’s get into the details a bit more!

I love hearing about what my friends are reading! It’s one of the best ways to learn about new books that I might like. That gave me the idea to do a post celebrating my friends and the books that they loved this year. I asked my friends to pick up to 7 of their favorite reads of the year, and say a bit about them if they wanted. I hope you find some great new books to check out from this list, I know I did. Also, this ended up being a lot longer than I expected haha but it’s worth it I promise!