/lit/ - Literature

>>20159753
>17 Amazing Fantasy / Sci-fi Novels Out this Spring
This Rebel Heart
>After the communists seized power in Hungary in the wake of WWII, all color drained from Budapest, leaving the landscape and the people draped in monotone. Csilla survived the Holocaust...
The Memory Librarian
>This collection of six thought-provoking science fiction short stories grapples with a future of surveillance, racism...
Fevered Star
>The second book in the Between Earth and Sky trilogy picks up immediately after the events in the first book, Black Sun. After the annihilation of the Watchers, Tova’s power dynamics are in turmoil. Serapio recovers from a wound made by the false Sun Preist’s mask among Tova’s Crow clan. The Crow clan and the other matriarchal clans on Tova...
Spear
>The lyrical writing in this queer Arthurian retelling...
Nettle & Bone
>When an older Marra visits her pregnant sister, she realizes her princely husband is a cruel abuser. Determined to rid her sister of an abusive husband...
Kaikeyi
>Patel depicts a world where patriarchal and misogynist norms attempt to force women into rigid roles, which their protagonists refuse to be forced into...
Maria, Maria: & Other Stories
>These 10 lush and delightfully subversive short stories probe women’s love and women’s justice through the lens of witchcraft...
Elektra
>Saint follows up her lovely debut Ariadne with another retelling of Greek mythology. This time Saint tackles one of the best-known stories from Greek mythos — the fall of Troy and the subsequent repercussions — by following three pivotal women...
When Women Were Dragons
>This riveting historical fantasy set in the United States during the 1950s is deeply embedded in the patriarchy of the time. Alex Green is a child when the Mass Dragoning occurs, when 300,000 women — fed up with the daily misogyny they experience — transform into dragons...
The Ghosts of Rose Hill
>Ilana Lopez, a Jewish biracial Latina, just wants to play violin, but her parents want her to concentrate on school and choose a practical profession. To help her concentrate on her schoolwork over the summer, Ilana’s father sends her to her aunt’s home in Prague without her violin. In Prague, Ilana discovers an abandoned Jewish cemetery and decides to clean it. There she meets Benjamin, a ghost that haunts the cemetery...
109 countries, you say?

>that feel when you're reading a book and it has an interesting first sentence
>by the second sentence the focus shifts to something completely different and far less interesting
>by the second sentence the tone changes to a bland, passive voice, that sounds bored to death
>the energy and zeal in the first sentence never comes back for the rest of the chapter
>you begin to wonder if the author even wrote the first sentence of if it was just some writing prompt that he's submitting

Don't be that guy, /lit/.