This is my  3rd r/fantasy bingo card, that I totally wasn’t going to this year, kinda accidentally happened. All but four of these are books I read after finishing my first two cards, I just didn’t read them with bingo in mind. 7 were r/fantasy book club reads (or sequels to those). 8 were sequels in my on-going series. 10 books by BIPOC authors and 19 books by women. I thought I’d read an overwhelming amount of Sci Fi but really it’s only 6/25.

Here are my other cards:

• r/Fantasy card 1
• r/Fantasy card 2
• Tarot Sequence presents Black Lives Matter Book Bingo card

To learn more about our bingo and the full description of the categories, check out the main reddit post. 

Translated from Original Language Beowulf: A New Translation by Maria Dahvana Headley  Bro, I loved this. It was so much fun, and I got a little emotional thinking how something so old could be made so fresh. I listened to the audiobook which meant I struggled a little bit with some of the names, but feel like this was the way it was intended to be enjoyed.

Setting Featuring Snow, Ice or Cold The Girl in the Tower (h) by Katherine Arden a great sequel that I read on snowy days, I liked how it expanded the scope of the story while keeping the atmosphere. Review

Optimistic A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers another sequel that I loved, the character and relationships here were so good. It doesn’t have a very strong connection to the characters in book one, which I liked, because it makes the series kinda episodic and easy to drop in and out of. Review

Featuring Necromancy The Heart Forger (h) by Rin Chupeco another sequel, I’ve been very good at this. I think this one did a great job of utilizing the hook book 1 ended with. And I liked it slightly better than the first because there were more parallels between the two timelines.Review

Ace / Aro Deathless Divide (h) by Justina Ireland – sequel to Dread Nation. More zombie-slaying fun, now with dual PoV, a Western bounty hunting feel, and thirst for revenge. Review

Featuring a Ghost Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas – so good, so so good. A YA contemporary fantasy that is fun and full of heart, with great characters and with strong themes. Review

Featuring Exploration The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin – row, row, row your boat till you’re off the map. The 3rd Earthsea book, loved it, it’s the first one that gives us a big picture of Earthsea, and it also calls back to the first book in a sort of nostalgic way. Very thoughtful and smart and just loved it, though a very slow read for me. Review

Climate Fiction Rhythm of War by Brandon Sanderson – this book did one thing well and that was to convince me to give up the Stormlight Archive. Review

Colo(u)r in the Title Redemption in Indigo (h) by Karen Lord – this book feels like sitting down with a storyteller who’s letting you in a few secrets, almost a conspiratory writing tone. It was lovely. Review

Any r/Fantasy Book Club / Read Along Book Children of Time (h) by Adrian Tchaikovsky TEAAAAM SPIDEEEERSSSS! Lots of fun, loved the spiders, kept me very interested. Review

Self-Published Novel The Sunken Mall by K.D. Edwards – a free novella published online by the author, set after book one, full of feels and action, lots of fun. Review

Novel with Chapter Epigraphs Discount Armageddon (h) by
Seanan McGuire – my fist McGuire! It was so much, popcorny UF with good characters and sure cute cultist mice. The magical creatures were great and the big twist was excellent. Review

Novel Published in 2020 The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin – cosmic horror and living cities. This was a very strange and interesting book, and I was convinced it had a full cast narration before I realized it was all Robin Miles. Review

Set in a School or University Od Magic by Paricia McKillip – I loved that this was a novel set in a magic school, but the main characters are neither students nor teachers. The MC is there as a gardener. It’s got classic fairytale vibes. Review

Book About Books Substitution: Historical The Conductors by Nicole Glover – a murder mystery set in Philadelphia a few years after the Civil War. I had a lot of fun putting together the mystery and the main couple is already married from the start (though their relationship is not exactly what you’d expect). Review

A Book that Made You Laugh Will Destroy the Galaxy for Cash (h) by Yahtzee Crohshaw – another sequel #KillingIt .This is a series about washed-up space pilots trying to make a living after technology makes them obsolete. It’s fun, light, easy to follow, even has a few clever ideas. Review

Five Short Stories: Fiyah – Issue 16 Joy – Loved this number centering Black joy, my favorite story was the first one. These are the blurbs from Fiyah’s website: 

• INTERSTATE AFRICANA // WC Dunlap Travelers converge on a plane where time and space are mere suggestions and the souls of Black folk are eternal. Hear the drums, tell your stories, and find healing before your next life begins.
• SILVER DOOR DINER // Bishop Garrison A woman working in a sleepy diner is cast out of her routine by a mysterious child’s warning of an impending cataclysm.
• PAID IN FULL // Sarah A. Macklin No one throws rent parties anymore, or at least that’s what Keisha believed before her little brother appears in her struggling shop, imbued with an explained, golden glow.
• THAT WHICH SMELLS BAD // Aline-Mwezi Niyonsenga Catching ghosts isn’t just a summer job for Gladys, the work anchors her to a family and culture that shuns her. So much more than an evening’s pay is at stake when her latest ghost decides to run.
• AMBROSIA // Margaret Saunders An artist struggling to rediscover herself while providing elder care for her aunt begins receiving premonitions after an impromptu visit to a psychic.

Big Dumb Object Taina Sfinxului de pe Marte by Viorica Huber I can’t say I liked this, it’s a sci-fi short book that’s structured more like a short story collection. If you’ve read Kalpa Imperial, very similar to that. The problem is I read Kalpa, didn’t like the structure there, then read this soon after and had the same problem. It’s about how some astronauts find a mysterious Sphinx on Mars and the histories of the civilization that put it there.

Feminist Novel Dawn (h) by Octavia Butler – oh yes I loved this. My favorite how it examined colonial practices through the lens of the completely alien aliens. Really gave me a lot to think about and I’ve been thinking about it since. Review

Canadian Author A Wish After Midnight by Zetta Elliott – a YA time travel book about a Black teenager from the year 2000 sent back in time to the civil war. It was a good read and again proved my assumptions about YA wrong. Review

Novel with a Number in the Title Half a Soul by Olivia Atwater I’ve been told half counts as a number, I wouldn’t have thought of it but that’s cool. This is a delightful regency romance with good banter and some evil fairies. Review

Romantic Fantasy / Paranormal Romance The A.I. Who Loved Me (h) by Alyssa Cole – a sci-fi romance that was very sweet but also a little bit too dystopian for my taste during curent times. I loved the MC’s supportive friends group. Review

Magical Pet The Oathbound (h) by Mercedes Lackey – I did not like this installment in the Valdemar series. It’s all about revenge and I just could not get behind the way the revenge was dealt. Review

Graphic Novel or Audiobook The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley – another old-school fairytale feeling book. It was nice, there was a big cat. We read it for HEA book club but the Romance was pretty meh imo. Review

Featuring Politics We Lie With Death by Devin Madson – ANOTHER SEQUEL! We learned some fascinating stuff about magic in this world. There were lots of turns that I didn’t see coming in how the narrative threads mingled. The pacing felt slightly less tense than book 1, but I’m very excited to read the next one. Review