December SFFKIT: Wishes

For the last month of the year, read an SFF book that you wished for: put in your wishlist, lusted over at the bookstore and caved and bought, one that someone gifted to you. At any rate, any book you really wanted to read!

Happy Holidays! Wishing you all the best. See you in January!

Perfect for the end of the year! I have lots that I still wish I had read in 2022, so it will be one of those! I am thinking Iron Widow, which Space Sirens book group read in January and I have been trying to catch up on ever since.

From my current wishlist is The Last Herald Mage by Mercedes Lackey

>1 majkia: thank you!

I'll have to think on this one...

ETA:
Okay, I have two possible reads for December's challenge:

The Hero and the Crown, which has been sitting for a while, despite me loving The Blue Sword...if I don't get it read for November's challenge!

The second is Agent of Change, which was recommended to me from a friend, I think you know who! Ha.

I think I'll read Hans Vogel is Dead--I rarely read graphic novels, but from the moment I saw bits and pieces of this one, I was anxious to read it. One of the main characters is a fox, and the illustrations are just fantastic. It took forever to arrive, but now I've just been waiting for the chance to pick it up! The back cover describes it as an "anti-fascist fairy tale about the power of narratives, the question of individual responsibility in a totalitarian regime, and the struggle to become a better person."

>4 fuzzi: Ooh, I'm rooting for The Hero and the Crown! But I love Robin McKinley to an irrational degree, so that's my bias at work. :)

>6 christina_reads: I just discovered Ms. McKinley...

I am going to be finishing one my favorite science fiction series with The Galaxy and the Ground Within by Becky Chambers.

I have 171 books tagged SFF in my wishlist! :D I'll decide what I read next month but will probably try to see if one has won the Hugo or Nebula award to progress in my personal challenge.

>1 majkia: I just bought and read an ebook that's been on my list awhile, The stone weta. I hope to reread it, as I'm not sure I got everything the first time, so this is a perfect challenge for me.

>2 JayneCM: & >5 whitewavedarling: Also see a couple of titles I'm curious about, hope to hear more when you finish them.

>7 fuzzi: if you've just discovered McKinley, I think you have some treats in store.

#2 I read Iron Widow this past month and LOVED it.

>10 markon: actually...back in the late 80s/early 1990s I read The Outlaws of Sherwood and loved it. Then last year someone pointed me to The Blue Sword which I enjoyed.

I just finished The Spare Man by Mary Robinette Kowal, which I'd preordered and had been wishing for time to read since it hit my Kindle.

I got a review copy of Pink Moon by Annabel Chase from Netgalley, so I count that as a gift =) It is the first in a spinoff series from Federal Bureau of Magic, which I have not read but have on my list. This one was good enough that I plan to start the original series next year...assuming I can wait!

>1 majkia: how about a book that was recommended to me and I put on my wishlist?


Dauntless by Jack Campbell

Entertaining "space opera" story of a military officer who wakes out of suspended animation one hundred years in the future and finds himself lauded as a legend. Circumstances put him reluctantly into a position of authority at a time of crisis. Good read, will look for the next book in the series.

January's thread is here: https://www.librarything.com/topic/346551

Perfect place to put Mercy Blade by Faith Hunter. It was a gift from DH last Christmas, so I might better read it before the year is out.

>18 DeltaQueen50: I enjoyed The Galaxy and the Ground Within by Becky Chambers, and of course, I wished that I had read it sooner!

I don't think I'm going to finish my planned Hans Vogel is Dead before the new year hits--I have to read graphic novels in bits and pieces because they mess with my eyes--but it really is fantastic, so I hope some of you will check it out! I do think I'm going to count Greener Pastures by Michael Wehunt as my SFF wishes read this month. As much weird fiction as horror, and gorgeous language, and I'd been excited/wishing to read it ever since I'd learned that inspired a writer I love to start writing, so I'd say it counts :)

Finished Mercy Blade by Faith Hunter and liked it much, much better than #2 in the series. Jane Yellowrock is back to solving mysteries, and this one is a doozy: involved are a ancient vampire killing/healing creature, other skinwalkers (a definite change in her isolation as the only one of her kind), and a long ago feud between weres and vampires.