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I've reached the point of noticing I have too many books I've not written up, and it's getting to be long enough ago I'll forget about them...
Sleep No More & The Innocent Sleep, Seanan McGuire (and the included novellas). These follow on from the cliffhanger ending of Be The Serpent, with the latter book telling the same story again, but from Tybalt's point of view. I enjoyed both of these, although the first I found myself feeling a bit like I knew roughly where the story had to end up and a bit frustrated about it not getting there yet. I felt like McGuire's grasp of Tybalt's voice wasn't quite solid at times in The Innocent Sleep, which is a shame given the story was always going to suffer somewhat from us knowing most of the plot points already.
There Is No Antimemetics Division, QNTM. Everyone knows what a meme is, but this SF/horror book is about anti-memes - entities and ideas that cause you to forget about their existence. The Antimemetics Division is trying to manage the risk that antimemetics pose to human society (and has developed some capability to resist amnestics), and recruits operatives who are able to rapidly re-make plans that they have forgotten about. This is an interesting and sometimes disturbing read; I don't think the final sections quite work, but the earlier parts are really good.
Bloodmarked, Tracy Deonn. This was on the Lodestar shortlist, but I didn't get to it before the voter deadline. It's the second of the series, and I suffered somewhat from not having read the first. It's a modern Arthurian story set in the US, with a black teenage girl as protagonist, and is substantially about generational trauma from slavery. For me it suffered a bit too much from the protagonist making bad decisions (though they were plausibly in-character), but it was still an engaging read.
Sleep No More & The Innocent Sleep, Seanan McGuire (and the included novellas). These follow on from the cliffhanger ending of Be The Serpent, with the latter book telling the same story again, but from Tybalt's point of view. I enjoyed both of these, although the first I found myself feeling a bit like I knew roughly where the story had to end up and a bit frustrated about it not getting there yet. I felt like McGuire's grasp of Tybalt's voice wasn't quite solid at times in The Innocent Sleep, which is a shame given the story was always going to suffer somewhat from us knowing most of the plot points already.
There Is No Antimemetics Division, QNTM. Everyone knows what a meme is, but this SF/horror book is about anti-memes - entities and ideas that cause you to forget about their existence. The Antimemetics Division is trying to manage the risk that antimemetics pose to human society (and has developed some capability to resist amnestics), and recruits operatives who are able to rapidly re-make plans that they have forgotten about. This is an interesting and sometimes disturbing read; I don't think the final sections quite work, but the earlier parts are really good.
Bloodmarked, Tracy Deonn. This was on the Lodestar shortlist, but I didn't get to it before the voter deadline. It's the second of the series, and I suffered somewhat from not having read the first. It's a modern Arthurian story set in the US, with a black teenage girl as protagonist, and is substantially about generational trauma from slavery. For me it suffered a bit too much from the protagonist making bad decisions (though they were plausibly in-character), but it was still an engaging read.