This month Christie Yant reviews fiction with an animal theme: Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr, by John Crowley, and Blackfish City, by Sam J. Miller.

This month, Arley Sorg reviews Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach, by Kelly Robson, and Ambiguity Machines and Other Stories, by Vandana Singh.

This month, LaShawn M. Wanak reviews the short story collection Starlings by Jo Walton, the novella collection The Tangled Lands by Paolo Bacigalupi and Tobias S. Buckell, and the novel The Fairies of Sadieville by Alex Bledsoe.

This month Christie Yant reviews new novellas from Tor.com, including Beneath the Sugar Sky, by Seanan McGuire, Mandelbrot the Magnificent, by Liz Ziemskaand, and The Murders of Molly Southbourne, by Tade Thompson.

This month, Amal El-Mohtar reviews the conclusion of Fran Wilde’s Bone Universe trilogy, Horizon. She also takes a look at the new novella The Only Harmless Great Thing, by Brooke Bolander.

This month, LaShawn Wanak reviews The Emerald Circus by Jane Yolen, The Overneath by Peter S. Beagle, and Terminal Alliance by Jim C. Hines.

This month, Christie Yant reviews Kat Howard’s An Unkindness of Magicians and Daryl Gregory’s Spoonbenders.

This month, Amal El-Mohtar takes a look at Theodora Goss’ new novel The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter and The Refrigerator Monologues by Catherynne Valente.

This month, LaShawn M. Wanak explores the nature of caretakers in The Sum of Us anthology, takes a trip back to The River Bank in a sequel to The Wind in the Willows, and gets turned into an emotional wreck by N.K. Jemisin’s The Stone Sky.

This month, Andrew Liptak takes a look at Skullsworn, by Brian Staveley, and Spellbreaker, by Blake Charlton.