The #SFFBookClub pick for March 2026
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#SFFBookClub
⭐ A child who was told she was broken discovers she's a healer — and refuses to ask permission to help save the world.
What's the bravest character moment you've read in YA fiction?
Genuine question for SFF readers: 🤔
Do you prefer stories where the protagonist's power makes them stronger than everyone else, or stories where their power makes them a target?
Cass Thorne's ability makes every powerful person in the room suddenly ordinary. They do not take it well.
Review of "The King Must Die" (2.5 stars): The King Must Die
"Mettan hadn’t been lying when he’d said the trek to the village was two hours. But it was two hours for relatively unstabbed people."
— Kemi Ashing-Giwa: The King Must Die
"For this land to escape slow, agonizing obliteration, all kings must die. There is no other way."
— Kemi Ashing-Giwa: The King Must Die
"Alekhai had been having a just-okay week when his sister’s assassins arrived."
— Kemi Ashing-Giwa: The King Must Die
Review of "Calypso" (4 stars): Calypso
Hey you! (Yes, you!) If you're seeing this, then you probably have an adjacent taste in books, so this could likely be of interest to you.
We're reading The King Must Die during this February for #SFFBookClub.
SFFBookClub is an asynchronous fediverse book club. There's no meeting or commitment. If this book looks interesting to you, then you can join in by reading it during February and posting on the hash tag #SFFBookClub with any feelings or thoughts or reviews or quotes.
More details: sffbookclub.eatgod.org/
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The #SFFBookClub pick for February 2026
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Review of "Calypso" (5 stars): Breathtaking
Review of "The Mountain in the Sea": The Mountain in the Sea
"This society—what we call modern society, what we always think of as the most important time the world has ever known, simply because we are in it—is just the sausage made by grinding up history."
— Ray Nayler: The Mountain in the Sea
"Someone said that people don’t really want to date other people. They don’t really want equal partnership—you know, two full people in a relationship. Two people with demands and desires and differences of opinion about everything. What they want is one-point-five people in the relationship. They want to be the complete one, the person who controls the relationship—and they want the other person to be half a person. You know, someone who gets them, but who doesn’t have their own demands. Someone who appears complete, with all these personality quirks and their own opinions and stories about the world—but not in an annoying way. Not in a way that would demand you change."
— Ray Nayler: The Mountain in the Sea
I have never read such a short passage that provides such deep insight into human behavior
"The world still contains miracles, despite everything that has been done to it."
— Ray Nayler: The Mountain in the Sea
"The great and terrible thing about humankind is simply this: we will always do what we are capable of."
— Ray Nayler: The Mountain in the Sea
"The plastic awning of the café streamed with rain."
— Ray Nayler: The Mountain in the Sea
The #SFFBookClub pick for December 2025
(comment on The Mountain in the Sea)
Review of "Feed Them Silence" (5 stars): Devastating
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