book blog 2025

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An absolutely gorgeous comic full of detached cruelty, most of the characters seem to not even register the suffering of others. Baby birds being fed is officially ruined for me. Also art pretty.

Foe is a really good thriller that I can’t get into without spoiling . It does an excellent job making you feel like your home is being invaded by a stranger, and all you can do is grin and bear it. It also does an excellent job implying a strange wider world that we don’t get to see.

At the start of this book our protagonist is following her brother, on a christian missionary trip in the fey realm. This is the perfect premise for me, reading The Sparrow earlier in the year put me in the mood for christian suffering at the hands of the fantastical. I’m an atheist but I really like reading books where a character's faith is a large part of their perspective. I also am a little bit obsessed with fey. This book did completely deliver on faith being one of the major lenses through which the main character views the world, but I didn’t really do anything interesting with it. Also I just didn’t belive that she wanted to fuck her brother.
I should probably add context. This book has an incest plot line, my problem is not that there was incest but that I did not know why the characters seemed so intent on committing it, they did not have chemistry. I do not think incest by itself is an interesting sin. The world building was interesting though.