Re: 2025 Hugo Awards Homework - The Novels

On 31 May 2025 at 05:47:01 BST, "Robert Woodward" <robertaw@drizzle.com>
wrote:

In article <XnsB2EF554D2283Ammikedacomcastnet@85.12.62.254>,
 Michael Ikeda <mmikeda@erols.com> wrote:
 

Robert Woodward <robertaw@drizzle.com> wrote in
news:robertaw-E0239D.21382429052025@news.individual.net:
 

I did not read _Someone You can Build a Nest in_ by John
Wiswell, because a description that I read of it convinced me
that it was horror and I try to avoid horror. I had already read
_A Sorceress Comes to Call_ by T. Kingfisher (Ursula Vernon).
BTW, this was the only one of the 24 fiction nominees that I had
already read.
 

 
Is T. Kingfisher an exception to your "try to avoid horror" policy or did it
just not feel like horror genre to you?

 
I read it last year because somebody claimed that it was a take on the
"Goose Girl" story from the Grimm Brothers collection. IMHO, it didn't
look that much like "Goose Girl" (other than the girl being bullied).

Plus Vernon/Kingfisher has only written a few horror books, the rest are
fantasy including _A Sorceress_. A couple of the fantasies have some
horror trappings (the recent Sworn Soldier ones) but *waggles hand*.

Her actual horror novels are in the Southern Gothic style - _The Twisted
Ones_, _The Hollow Places_, and _A House With Good Bones_.

    Cheers - Jaimie
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