Since [Redacted] is doing voting right now on the [Redacted] Choice Awards, I thought we could do our own end-of-the-year genre awards!! If you're feeling like a purist you could keep it to books published in 2025, but do whatever your heart desires. Please feel free to invent categories at your discretion.

Here are my award winners among the books I read this year:

2025 Fantasy Romance 🏆 The Knight and the Moth by Rachel Gillig (2025) 🥈 The Ascended by Bree Grenwich & Parker Lennox (2025) 🥉 Dire Bound by Sable Sorensen (2025)

2025 Fantasy 🏆 Katabasis by R.F. Kuang (2025) 🥈 The Strength of the Few by James Islington (2025)

2022 Book Where The Main Character Speaks in Deeply Haunting Rhymes and Riddles 🏆 One Dark Window by Rachel Gillig (2022)

Pre-2025 Science Fiction Book That Became My Entire (!!!) Personality 🏆 Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman (2020)

The 2024 Fantasy Book I Adored But Haven't Met A Single Other Person Who Has Read It 🏆 Long Live Evil by Sarah Rees Brennan (2024)

The Book That Would've Won This Year's Hugo Award if I Were in Charge 🏆 The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley (2024)

Cutest Friendship Between Authors as Witnessed on Instagram 🏆 Rachel Gillig & Kalie Cassidy

Dude I’d be getting the hell out of dodge if this was me. Sorry mum.

Is anyone else struggling with maintaining a clear mental picture of what's happening? This could be a combination of the fact that I'm listening to this book and the narrative style but I find that even though I know the places that are being talked about, I lose track sometimes.

I guess we’re getting into it right away then….okay!

“But I have standards. I prefer my corpses fresh.”

Girl what?! 😅😂

He can talk???!!🤯🤯🤨🤨

WHAT IS HAPPENING?!