Unresolved Textual Tension
Fantasy and scifi book reviews, analysis, and sass.
Episodes
ROASTING The Secret World of Briar Rose (Review | Cindy Pham)
ROAST or Rave?? Yesteryear review (that tradwife book)
what if JESUS was a pickup artist?? (The Darkness That Comes Before review)
Monsters or MonsHERS?! (The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter | Theodora Goss)
2 Dungeon 2 Carl: It's Crawler Time (Dungeon Crawler Carl 2/3 | Matt Diniman)
why is the main character even here?? (The Poet Empress | Shen Tao)
ROASTING Agnes Aubert's Mystical Cat Shelter (Heather Fawcett)
were VIKINGS really that DIRTY?? (Eaters of the Dead | Michael Crichton)
ROASTING Paladin's Grace / Strength (T. Kingfisher)
do characters even need agency really?? (The Summer War | Naomi Novik)
ultimate cat daddy?? (Dungeon Crawler Carl | Matt Dinniman)
white people suck (blood) | The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephan Graham Jones
vikings + toxic boy mom = The Children of Gods and Fighting Men (Shauna Lawless)
Litfic or FURRY masterpiece?? (Bunny | Mona Awad)
Speculative Biology of ICE PLANET BARBARIANS (hard scifi rewrite)
The ORIGINAL Spelunking Horror: Alice In Wonderland (Lewis Caroll)
There Is No Antimemetics Division | qntm
making out with joan of arc to save history (The Everlasting | Alix E. Harrow)
finding a witch to burn in the weird west?? (Red Rabbit | Alex Gracian)
Best or WORST Jane Austen fanfic?? (The Other Bennet Sister | Janice Hadlow)
how REAL is The Handmaid's Tale?? (Margaret Atwood)
why do we do this to ourselves (rewriting The Savior's Army pt2)
REWRITING The Savior's Army, by Jenna Moreci (Pt1)
Jenna Moreci is Bad at Writing (Savior's Army prose breakdown)
It's FINALLY here - ROASTING The Savior's Army (Jenna Moreci)
ROASTING The Will of the Many (James Islington)
CONCLUSIVELY ranking the Witcher Series
ROASTING The Irresistible Urge to Fall for Your Enemy (Brigitte Knightley)
Here at the end... was it worth it?? (The Witcher | Lady of the Lake)
Responding to YOUR Alchemised Comments and Opinions
ROASTING Kill the Beast (Serra Swift)
ROASTING published dramione fic (Alchemised | SenLinYu)
ROASTING Sword of Kaigen (M. L. Wang)
You've all FAILED me (Spinning Silver | Naomi Novik)
ROASTING the book WORSE than TWILIGHT?? (Shiver | Maggie Stiefvater)
things get GRIM in the Witcher (The Tower of Swallows | Andrzej Sapkowski)
is this the CURE to ROMANTASY?? (Blood Over Bright Haven | M. L. Wang)
roadtrip through war crimes (Witcher | Baptism of Fire | Andrzej Sapkowski)
Bioengineering gets DANGEROUS (A Drop of Corruption | Jackson Bennett)
ROASTING A Cruel Thirst (Angela Montoya)
ROASTING The Starving Saints (Caitlin Starling)
KNOT AGAIN: roasting MATE, by Ali Hazelwood
unraveling the MADNESS of The Raven Cycle
solving crime with SHROOMS?? (The Tainted Cup)
DON'T look at the boobs on the statue (The Witcher | The Time of Contempt | Andrzej Sapkowski)
Best and WORST of the YEAR (4 Year Anniversary)
ROASTING Katabasis (R. F. Kuang)
BAMBI'S revenge?? (The Only Good Indians | Stephen Graham Jones)
the WITCHER show massacred our children (The Blood of Elves | Andrzej Sapkowski)
the short story is better than the book?? (Buried Deep | Naomi Novik)
ROASTING A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping (Sangu Mandanna)
the next ACOTAR?? (The River Has Roots | Amal El-Mohtar)
ROASTING House of the Dragon fanfic (A Fate Forged in Fire | Hazel McBride)
yes, the unicorn happens (Sword of Destiny | Andrzej Sapkowski)
ROASTING Some Desperate Glory (Emily Tesh)
The WASTED potentional of The Listeners (Maggie Stiefvater)
ROASTING The Ashes and the Star Cursed King (Carissa Broadbent)
grumpy robots feud for eternity (The Infinite and The Divine | Robert Rath)
The pope's dirty dozen?? (The Devils | Joe Abercrombie)
a sedated ROAST of Wild Dark Shore (Charlotte McConaghy)
Tentacle Girlfriend?? (Someone You Can Build a Nest In | John Wiswell)
ROASTING The Serpent and The Wings of Night (Carissa Broadbent
Florida, but less weird with aliens (Absolution | Jeff Vandermeer)
foes before bros (Vicious | V. E. Schwab)
You're on a path in the woods and that's BAD (Slay the Princess)
Does ALL MY RAGE inspire... sadness?? (Sabaa Tahir)
Dark Fantasy in Plague Ridden France (Between Two Fires | Christopher Buehlman)
Lost its way?? Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales (Heather Fawcett)
When a house crushes on you (Starling House | Alix E. Harrow)
SLICE of Tudor Life (get it it's a pun) | Bring up the Bodies - Hilary Mantel
Tentacles in SPACE (Children of Ruin | Adrian Tchaikovsky)
The TRUTH about Tudor politics?!? (Wolf Hall | Hilary Mantel)
X Marks Our HEARTS in Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands (Heather Fawcett)
SPIDER Boyfriend?? (Children of Time | Adrian Tchaikovsky)
ROASTING The Lies of Locke Lamora (Scott Lynch)
Cozy or CRAP?!? (Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries | Heather Fawcett)
ROASTING Don't Let the Forest In (C. G. Drews)
ROASTING Onyx Storm (dear god let this be the last)
ROASTING Fundie Romance Novel (Shades of Blue | Karen Kingsbury)
Can we KNOT?? (Bride | Ali Hazelwood)
