The mystery of who created the robot replica of Alister Sterling and gave it his memories is no closer to being solved- indeed, the case is becoming more and more complex. This volume pushes forward both the present day and flashback past storylines, a page turner I read all in one day.

What a perfect conclusion to this trilogy, which took the author 8 years to write and draw. The final note follows perfectly from the logic of what has come before, and yet it still surprised me. What an absolute gem of a tale, in which the clues to unraveling the mystery are all laid out right from the start. Hats off to Blue Delliquanti!

A collection of eight dark, mysterious stories in the vein of Kelly Link and Helen Oyeyemi. I had expected this book to be a harder read, but I ended up going through it in about a week, happily devouring one story after another. "Inventory", a catalogue of lovers at the end of the world, and "Mothers", about a dysfunctional lesbian relationship probably hit me the hardest, but I appreciated the strands of queer pleasure and spookiness woven throughout. Many stories include themes of sexual assault or other more unexplainable traumas of having a feminine body, but they were never overly graphic.

Rogues edited by GRR Martin and Gardner Dozois is a collection of 21 original stories from well known authors of many genres. I mostly picked up it for Patrick Rothfuss, Neil Gaiman and Connie Willis but I was very impressed by the anthology as a whole. Of the whole batch there were only 2 or 3 I didn't outright enjoy which is pretty damn good for a story collection in my mind. There are fantasies, westerns, crime dramas and more but each story features an excellent rogue.

Alex knows his mother Val used to play Agent Frazer on the cult favorite TV show Anomaly, but the show ended when he was three. Now he is nine, and he and his mother set off on a cross-country road trip from New York to Los Angeles, stopping at comic conventions along the way. For the first time Alex sees the legions of his mother's fans and experiences the floating, impermanent worlds that get built for a weekend in hotels and convention halls from Cleveland to Chicago. He meets and befriends comics writers and artists, but this trip has another purpose and his mother is keeping it a secret. This book is an enjoyable and industry-savvy look into the comics world, a road trip novel, and an emotional mother and son story. As literary as it is nerdy.