Pushing Daisy was a decent sequel to Daisy’s Run, but honestly I enjoyed the first book more and I don’t feel inclined to read the rest of the series.
Song of the Dryads was recommended to me but… sorry, absolutely not. My first DNF of 2026. I don’t like the writing style at all, it’s badly in need of an editor, better characterization, and it gives me the feeling of maybe being partially AI generated. It’s just not a well-told story. At approximately halfway through the short book, there is just no sense of what the main character wants, any sort of conflict or plot, nor much differentiation between the other characters. Nobody seems to have any agency and things just happen at random. It’s a fever dream.
I started Martha Wells’ The Wizard Hunters and I’m not into it yet either. I really liked her Murderbot books, and the couple of fantasy stories of hers were pretty well done, but this is supposed to be the first book of its series but it reads like a book 3 without any sort of catch-up. But I’ll keep going for a while and give it a chance, I guess.
The New Gender Synthesis: To be only masculine or only feminine is to be half a human being
This is actually not as much about being nonbinary or trans, as it is the toxic performative hypermasculine/hyperfeminine “reactionary camp” of the right wing in recent years. It’s quite a read.