I reread this book every year, the vibes are immaculate and the story is beautiful. I want to live inside the world of le cirque des rêves!

For fans of The Magicians and King Arthur, The Bright Sword gives us a world familiar and at the same time so different straight from the imaginations of Lev Grossman and every other Arthurian legend fanatic. It's a thick book but I found myself lost in the story despite the weight of carrying around a 673 page novel. Familiar characters like Guinevere, Merlin, Lancelot, and King Arthur himself seem to come into themselves and are perhaps sometimes shocking but to me they just make sense.

I love her books that seem to romanticize academia while also tearing it to shreds. The world she has created, drawn from so many different historical, literary, philosophical, religious, and mythological sources are so diverse and well implemented, I'm beginning to wonder how she knows all this!

Ah, this book was a lovely breath of fresh air in the crazy world we live in. In a distant solarpunk future a tea monk (something between a barista and a therapist) sets out on an adventure to hear wild crickets chirping and along the way meets a "wild-built" robot and together they travel and teach the other about different ways of thinking and life. It's beautiful and charming with low stakes and only about 160 pages, the perfect brain candy novel.