Books from Reactor Magazine's Reviewers’ Choice: The Best Books of 2024.
Reactor Magazine Reviewers’ Choice: The Best Books of 2024 Public
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                Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands by Heather Fawcett (Emily Wilde, #2) 5 stars When mysterious faeries from other realms appear at her university, curmudgeonly professor Emily Wilde must uncover their secrets before it’s … 
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                The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley 4 stars In the near future, a civil servant is offered the salary of her dreams and is, shortly afterward, told what … 
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                Those Beyond the Wall by Micaiah Johnson (The Space Between Worlds, #2) 3 stars In Ashtown, a rough-and-tumble desert community, the Emperor rules with poisoned claws and an iron fist. He can’t show any … 
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                Anna Sinjari—refugee, survivor of genocide, disaffected office worker—has a close encounter that reveals universe-threatening stakes. Enter Ssrin, a many-headed serpent … 
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                The Failures by Benjamin Liar (The Wanderlands, #1) Welcome to the Wanderlands. A vast machine made for reasons unknown, the Wanderlands was broken long ago. First went the … 
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                The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett (Shadow of the Leviathan, #1) 4 stars In Daretana’s greatest mansion, a high imperial officer lies dead—killed, to all appearances, when a tree erupted from his body. … 
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                The Examiner by Janice Hallett 1 star Told in emails, text messages, and essays, this unputdownable mystery follows a group of students in an art master’s program … 
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                Last Hour Between Worlds by Melissa Caruso (The Echo Archives, #1) Investigator Kembral Thorne finally has some time away from her newborn to enjoy the year-turning party. However, as people start … 
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                4 stars Karys Eska is a deathspeaker, locked into an irrevocable compact with Sabaster, a terrifying eldritch entity—three-faced, hundred-winged, unforgiving—who has granted … 
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                Navigational Entanglements by Aliette de Bodard 4 stars Jockeying navigator clans guide spaceships through the Hollows: an area of space populated by the mysterious but deadly creatures known … 
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                Metal from Heaven by August Clarke 5 stars He who controls ichorite controls the world. A malleable metal more durable than steel, ichorite is a toxic natural resource … 
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                4 stars A demon. An angel. A city. The demon Vitrine—immortal, powerful, and capricious—loves the dazzling city of Azril. She has mothered, … 
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                The Dragonfly Gambit by A. D. Sui 4 stars Nearly ten years after Inez Kato sustained a career-ending injury during a military exercise gone awry, she lies, cheats, and … 
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                City of Dancing Gargoyles by Tara Campbell In the parched, post-apocalyptic Western U.S. of the 22nd Century, wolves float, bonfires sing, and devils gather to pray. Water … 
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                The Nightmare Box and Other Stories by Cynthia Gómez 5 stars A young queer man finds love at a magical clothing shop—and the courage to stand up to the homophobic cops. … 














