Januaries: Stories of Love, Magic & Betrayal
Olivie Blake
Januaries is a collection of new and iconic short stories and novellas from New York Times bestselling author Olivie Blake. Once upon a time in a land far, far away, the tutelary spirit to a magical bridge rapidly approaches burnout. Meanwhile, congress enacts a complex auditing system designed to un-waste your youth, a banished fairy answers a Craigslist ad, a Victorian orphan gains literacy for her occult situationship, and a multiverse assassin contemplates the one who got away. Escape the slow trudge of mortality with these magical ruminations on life, death, and the love (or revenge) that outlasts both, featuring modified fairytales, contemporary heists, absurdist poetry, and at least one set of actual wedding vows. Also by Olivie Blake The Atlas Six The Atlas Paradox The Atlas Complex Alone with You in the Ether One for My Enemy Masters of Death
This was such a beautiful story about the guardian of a wish bridge and a boy that keeps finding her and eventually makes his own wishes...
0The copy that I have is one of the prettiest books I own. It's hardback with sprayed edges and the illustrations are goregous. I'm intrigued to read this one, I also think the titles sound like Taylor Swift songs.
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0 0A collection of stories very much in the ways of Blake's writing. I enjoyed these for the most part. As with most collections there will be ones you dislike and like more than others. I found To Make a Man and Sensual Tales for Carnal Pleasures (I did this as an audiobook and the narrator for the prince kept making me think of Cardan...) to be my favourites, but The Wish Bridge was cute. Blake's writing always seems to lend itself to keep you on your toes. You never quite know where it's going, and that's the joy in it. I did end up skipping The Audit and Chaos Theory-- the format for the former was off putting, and something about the disarray for the latter was hard to parse.
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