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Aug. 13th, 2021

Okay I've now read all the Lodestar finalists! (the hugo for YA basically.) Here's how I'm voting. Links to my complete reviews from the titles of each book.

1. Elatsoe, by Darcie Little Badger

I adored this book! Idek, it was just perfect to me. My review of it is basically just a list of things I loved!

2. A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking, by T Kingfisher

Fascinating and odd and with a lot of heart, like Kingfisher's writing so often is, and I loved every bit of it.

3. Legendborn, by Tracy Deonn

Good at being exactly the kind of book it is, and it explores some important themes, but I found the monster-fighting to be kinda boring, personally.

4. Raybearer, by Jordan Ifueko

An uneven debut novel, but with a lot of promise, and some things done very well.

5. Cemetery Boys, by Aiden Thomas

A very slow start and some uncomfortable implications in the ways the themes tied together, but I enjoyed all the various complicated relationships in the book.

6. No Award

7. A Deadly Education, by Naomi Novik

Competently written but I never felt compelled to care about anything that was happening.

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