E33: So Here’s the Thing

Mysterious Galaxy’s annual summer bingo is in full swing and we are (still) getting ready to throwdown!!  This week to complement the accounting of Smack’s reads last month, Gabi details some of her recent reads that will be feeding into our annual Throwdown next month.  We begin by spending way too much time talking about a book of murder-themed logic puzzles - proving that Smack absolutely kills (haha) at birthday gifts - then discuss some incredible worldbuilding in an excellent anti-empire werewolf fantasy novel and a couple of novellas featuring sapphic Sherlock Holmesian stories on Jupiter.  After a quick lesson on tardigrades and bemoaning her attempt to dip another toe back into the world of Sarah J. Maas, Gabi finishes by celebrating her first impressions of the Scholomance series, which has set the bar high for the rest of the trilogy, so we'll see how that goes...

Books discussed this episode include:

• Murdle Vol. 1 by G.T. Karber
• The Silvered by Tanya Huff
• Mossa & Pleiti series by Malka Ann Older
• The Three Little Tardigrades by Sandra Fay
• The Assassin’s Blade by Sarah J. Maas
• The Scholomance by Naomi Novik