Lots to love and worlds to get lost in this month!
Science Fiction / Space Opera
Kevin Emerson further explores two episodes of the Netflix hit, Lost in Space, with Infinity's Edge and Return to Yesterday.
Sophia McDougall's older duology, Mars Evacuees and Space Hostages, was laugh-out-loud funny and downright preposterous space opera in places, but a wonderful fun read.
Fantasy
I'm late to finishing the Morrigan Crow series with Hollowpox, but it's a satisfying wrap to that series. The Mystwick School of Musicraft is the music-based fantasy I've been dying to read for a long time! Last Gamer Standing tackles misogyny in the online gaming world.
Amira & Hamza is a blend of science and mythology, while we loved the two Wonder Woman middle grade Diana-origin stories in Diana and the Island of No Return and Diana and the Underworld Odyssey. Winterborne Home for Mayhem and Misery is a sequel, and Sweep is timeless English steampunk with a Tucson angle we loved (in the author's note)!
Indie Authors Series
Indie authors make a brilliant showing this monthl. Ben Gartner finishes The Eye of Ra series with Sol Invictus and The People of the Sun, while Mulrox and the Malcognitos' message really resonated with my son. The Book of Chaos brilliantly starts a six (6) book series for lower middle grade readers. And indie author Doreen Berger brings us a gentle, MG space opera, Star Trek-ish type tale featuring an alternate universe and horses in The Captain's Daughters.
Finally, YA indie author Tyler Edwards introduces us to his dystopian YA outcast story, The Outlands.
For more Sci-Fi/Fantasy reads, here are my reviews from this time last year (2021):
