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A review by jugglingpup
Distant Gardens: Ten Stories of Exploration, Biodiversity, and Found Family by J.S. Fields, Heather Tracy
4.0
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I got an ARC of this book.
This is the first book in the August indie author spotlight! I want to say an extra thank you to Sara Codair for being a part of this. They can be found at their website or on Twitter. This is just one of the books that Codair has been a part of. One of the others has been reviewed by me and iam already. So I am already a fan.
Codair has two stories in this one. The rest are from their writing group. They are all queer and all sci-fi, so my weakness. I will be focusing on Codair’s stories though. The first one is an epilogue of sorts of their trilogy that I have read the first two books of (I might need to read the third now). It is a bit hard to jump right into, so I highly recommend reading at least the first two books to understand a lot of what is happening. It might be understood without reading those, but I think they give a lot of context for the way the magic and the angels/elves/humans work in Codair’s universe.
The second story though. Oh goodness. I was not expecting that second story at all. Please give me more lesbian krakens. I did not know I needed lesbian tentacle sex, but I apparently did. I am super iffy on shifters, but kraken shifter? SIGN ME UP. The story wasn’t just a romance, but I would have read a full on romance. It was more of an adventure to defeat a corporation who wanted to terraform a marsh. I am all for ecological justice. This really was the story for me.
Codair writes adventure so it is fast paced and emotionally charged. I am not a big adventure fan or a fantasy fan, but somehow Codair is able to draw me in and before I know it I am feeling all sorts of unexpected emotions. The characters are far from perfect, most have some mental health issues. Some of those are really large and make me feel so deeply that I had issues finishing a book (I kept reading, I loved the book but it was hard). Sometimes they are less emotionally intense, but really make a character feel more real like in these stories.
Seriously. Sapphic kraken sex. If that doesn’t entice you, we are drastically different people.
Codair is one of the indie authors I adore and I highly recommend their books!
I got an ARC of this book.
This is the first book in the August indie author spotlight! I want to say an extra thank you to Sara Codair for being a part of this. They can be found at their website or on Twitter. This is just one of the books that Codair has been a part of. One of the others has been reviewed by me and iam already. So I am already a fan.
Codair has two stories in this one. The rest are from their writing group. They are all queer and all sci-fi, so my weakness. I will be focusing on Codair’s stories though. The first one is an epilogue of sorts of their trilogy that I have read the first two books of (I might need to read the third now). It is a bit hard to jump right into, so I highly recommend reading at least the first two books to understand a lot of what is happening. It might be understood without reading those, but I think they give a lot of context for the way the magic and the angels/elves/humans work in Codair’s universe.
The second story though. Oh goodness. I was not expecting that second story at all. Please give me more lesbian krakens. I did not know I needed lesbian tentacle sex, but I apparently did. I am super iffy on shifters, but kraken shifter? SIGN ME UP. The story wasn’t just a romance, but I would have read a full on romance. It was more of an adventure to defeat a corporation who wanted to terraform a marsh. I am all for ecological justice. This really was the story for me.
Codair writes adventure so it is fast paced and emotionally charged. I am not a big adventure fan or a fantasy fan, but somehow Codair is able to draw me in and before I know it I am feeling all sorts of unexpected emotions. The characters are far from perfect, most have some mental health issues. Some of those are really large and make me feel so deeply that I had issues finishing a book (I kept reading, I loved the book but it was hard). Sometimes they are less emotionally intense, but really make a character feel more real like in these stories.
Seriously. Sapphic kraken sex. If that doesn’t entice you, we are drastically different people.
Codair is one of the indie authors I adore and I highly recommend their books!