Happy Tuesday, shipmate! It’s Alex, with some new releases for you…though not quite as many as the absolute deluge of last week. There might be less quantity, but I assure you that the quality is still out of this world. I hope that you had a lovely and relaxing weekend, and that you’re not missing your hour of sleep from springing forward too much. (The cat, shockingly, let me sleep past it without waking me up.) Stay safe out there, space pirates, and I’ll see you on Friday!
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Bookish Goods
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Daughter of the Moon Goddess With Hand-Painted Edges by ThePaintedPaigeShop
This shop has a bunch of hardcover books with gorgeous hand-painted edges, and one of the offerings is Daughter of the Moon Goddess (see below). Well worth checking out if you love books and vivid art! $95
New Releases
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Walking Practice by Dolki Min, translated by Victoria Caudle
An alien crashes their spaceship in the middle of nowhere, an unfamiliar and unremarkable planet (of course we’re talking about Earth) where the gravity is a massive problem that means they need to practice walking. Good thing their pursuit of delicious humans provides excellent motivation. But after a fun time hunting, they begin to understand their prey a little too well…and why humans might want to survive.
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Bitter Medicine by Mia Tsai
Elle is the ignored middle child — but she’s also a descendant of the Chinese god of medicine, which makes her a disappointment as well. Instead of a doctor, she’s a mediocre magical calligrapher employed by a temp agency. She still finds challenge in outfitting her client (and main crush), the half-elf Luc, with very powerful and well-crafted glyphs. Luc has his own burden: he’s trying to repair a curse laid on someone during a botched assignment. Together, Elle and Luc might be able to find both fulfillment and happiness…but they need to gain their freedom first, and that will require sacrifices of them both.
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Chrysalis by Anuja Varghese
This is Anuja Varghese’s debut collection of speculative fiction stories that blend reality and worlds beyond to explore family, sexuality, community, and cultural expectations, focused particularly on the ways racialized women have their power stolen and the dangerous journeys they undergo to reclaim it.
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Riot Recommendations
Jumping off Mia Tsai’s new book about the descendant of a Chinese god, here are a couple of other books where the main character is a demigod of some sort…though they definitely both have more exciting lives than poor Elle.
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Daughter of the Moon Goddess by Sue Lynn Tan
Xingyin has grown up accustomed to the solitude of the moon, though unaware of the reason behind it — she’s being hidden from the Celestial Emperor by her mother, who was exiled by him for using his elixir of immortality to become a god. But Xingyin is forced to flee her home and her mother when her magic catches the attention of outsiders. In disguise, she makes her way to the Celestial Kingdom, where she seizes a chance to learn next to — and fall in love with — Crown Prince before embarking on a quest to save her mother.
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David Mogo Godhunter by Suyi Davies Okungbowa
David Mogo is a demigod who works as a freelance godhunter, scouring the underbelly of Lagos for the gods who rained down on the city during the Orisha War. He knows his job is bad luck, but he didn’t know how bad until he delivers a high god to an Eko wizard who immediately conjures a legion of feral godling-child hybrids to take over Lagos. If David’s going to save his city, he’s going to need a team…
See you, space pirates. If you’d like to know more about my secret plans to dominate the seas and skies, you can catch me over at my personal site.