Joshua Bonifacio
Drawing on world mythologies ‘Bitter Medicine’ is a romantasy about the freedom to love
Elle and Luc are two people determined to find a way home to each other.
Both are grappling with issues both mundane and fantastical. Elle...
In ‘The City in Glass,’ centuries go on and cities change, but old memories...
The demon Vitrine has been watching over the city of Azril for a long, long time.
She has seen lineages rise and fall. Over the...
Humans and gods alike grapple with the mysteries of life in ‘Hyo the Hellmaker’
On the island of Onogoro, where humans and gods coexist, Hyo and her brother, Mansaku, infer very quickly that an unseen web of power,...
Hell makes for a familiar place in R. F. Kuang’s “Katabasis”
R.F. Kuang’s newest novel begins with a descent into Hell, but its central character—Alice Law, PhD student at Cambridge and scholar of magick—has...
In “Snowglobe” a young woman takes on a strange life in front of the...
Imagine a dome, and inside the dome is a world unlike the harsh and unforgiving one that you belong to. Inside, a society flourishes,...
A lone space crew is tasked with unraveling the murky truth in sci-fi murder...
In Yume Kitasei’s The Deep Sky, several crew members have just died in a tragic explosion, and the remaining members of a spacecraft traveling...
An adventurous story of family and identity awaits in urban fantasy debut ‘Ebony Gate’
Sworn to fulfill her family’s blood debt, Emiko Soong is given the daunting task of retrieving the Ebony Gate: a portal that stands as...
In Park Seolyeon’s ‘A Magical Girl Retires,’ a young woman navigates the challenges of...
For as heavy as A Magical Girl Retires starts, what follows in Park Seolyeon’s novella, newly translated from Korean to English by Anton Hur,...
In ‘He Who Drowned the World,’ a story of suffering and desire toils
Burning with the desire to become the next emperor, Zhu Yuanzhang — ex-monk, visionary, leader — gathers her army to take on the Great...
Themes of found family and identity collide in promising new space opera
Ocean’s Godori, a stunning debut novel by Elaine U. Cho, begins with brief, curious peeks into the world of its sci-fi setting, told across...
