"Masterful, audacious storytelling. Relentless, unsentimental, a completely wild ride. I had a time. Talk about Mass Effect beating up Brave New World in a dark alley." —Tamsyn Muir, New York Times bestselling author of The Locked Tomb series
SOME DESPERATE GLORY is an action-packed queer space opera about the wreckage of war, the family you find, and who you must become when every choice is stripped from you.
I've already written quite a bit about these books and have a tag #best books of 2023 where I also include my honorable mentions, so here is a rapid fire of my best books of the year!
The Last Tale of the Flower Bride by Roshani Chokshi
The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen
Little Thieves by Margaret Owen
The Daevabad Trilogy by S.A. Chakraborty
Kindred by Octavia Butler
Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik
Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual's Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture by Sherronda J Brown
The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty
RHYS MANNION, EFEOSA AFOLABI, JANA MCKINNON, CHANEIL KULAR & THÉO AUGIER BONAVENTURE at the Silver and the Book of Dreams premiere in Berlin (30.11.23)
I sometimes have a hard time understanding why some people hate John so much, I mean i can get why but-
Have you guys...read the twisted ones???
My man was fucking unhinged
And was throwing hands in The Silver Eyes
like lemme remind you from what he has done:
-Actually knocked out Willy Wonka (William afton) as Dave Miller in TSE and may have or may have not given him a concussion
-Threw hands at the animatronics in TSE, you know, 7ft tall killer robots made of metal that where very heavy
-Am pretty sure he tried to push freddy or smth and in the graphic novel mf kicks him like a mortal combat character (Tho personally I don't take the Graphic novels too seriously tbh)
-stepped on foxy's neck multiple times while Foxy was on the floor while he was trying to save Charlie
-Found a dead coyote in a freezer inside a gas station and grabbed it by the neck and threw it out the streets
-Went to Clay's basement where Clay kept the OG animatronics and tried to contact their spirits to find Charlie and it works
-Committed arson alongside Clay in an underground pizzería full of animatronics
also, he was the first person to call BS on "Charlie" (Circus Baby aka Fake Charlie) at the end of TTO and throughout TFC, and no one believed him until way later
He may not be the most well developed character and is mostly a romantic interest, and like...they kinda tried to give him interesting characteristic but wasn't enough but like- he is so unhinged and actually insane and I love him for that.
Also I would marry any man would would accept to go and investigate creepy haunted locations involving ghosts, murder, personal trauma and daddy/mommy issues and look after me
Honestly everyone in The Twisted Ones were so fucking unhinged, its one of the few good things that book had