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Amanda and Jenn discuss character-driven sci-fi, non-Western fantasy, escapist reads, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked.
This episode is sponsored by The Storybound Podcast, Saga Press, publishers of speculative fiction like Stephen Graham Jones’ THE ONLY GOOD INDIANS, Rebecca Roanhorse’s BLACK SUN, and more, and Care/of.
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Stepping Stone by Karin Kallmaker
Strawberry Summer by Melissa Brayden
Too Close to Touch by Georgia Beers
Just Jorie by Robin Alexander
(rec’d by Wynnde)
Cinderella is Dead by Kalynn Baron (rec’d by Lauren)
Books Discussed
The Water Cure by Sophie Mackintosh (tw: rape, murder, child abuse)
Famous Men Who Never Lived by K. Chess (tw: assault, bigotry, separation from a child)
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (tw: violence against children, sexual assault, eugenics)
Woven in Moonlight by Isabel Ibañez
Son of a Trickster by Eden Robinson
The Lesser Blessed by Richard Van Camp, as rec’d by Waubgeshig Rice (Recommended) (tw: child abuse)
Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow
The Chilling Effect and Prime Deceptions by Valerie Valdes
Bromance Book Club by Lyssa Kay Adams
Girl Gone Viral by Alisha Rai (tw: abusive parent, panic attacks)
Shades of Magic series by VE Schwab
The Books of Ambha (Empire of Sand and Realm of Ash) by Tasha Suri
When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon
Sofia Khan is Not Obliged by Ayisha Malik (tw: racism, fatphobia)
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