Locus Magazine Reviews

Links to my book reviews published in Locus Magazine

 

The Language of Liars by SL Huang

An Impossibility of Crows by Kirsten Kaschock

Crimson in Quietus by Eugen Bacon

Forged in FIYAH, edited by DaVaun Sanders (November 2026 issue, available for purchase)


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