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10 best books like Among the Thorns (Veronica Schanoes): A Cup of Salt Tears, A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers, The Witch of Duva, Brimstone and Marmalade, Red as Blood and White as Bone, The Horrid Glory of Its Wings, Men Who Wish to Drown, That Game We Played During the War, Heads Will Roll, Cold Wind

A Cup of Salt Tears
AuthorIsabel Yap
Makino’s mother taught her caution, showed her how to carve her name into cucumbers, and insisted that she never let a kappa touch her. But when she grows up and her husband Tetsuya falls deathly ill, a kappa that claims to know her comes calling with a barbed promise. “A Cup of Salt Tears” is a dark...
A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers
AuthorAlyssa Wong
The day my sister ended the world, the sky opened up in rain for the first time in years, flooding the desert wash behind our house. The snakes drowned in their holes and the javelinas stampeded downstream, but the water overtook them, and the air filled with their screaming as they were swept away.

this...
The Witch of Duva
AuthorLeigh Bardugo
ISBN1466820756
"Now you know what monsters once lurked in the woods near Duva, and if you ever meet a bear with a golden collar, you will be able to greet him by name. So shut the window tight and make sure the latch is fastened. Dark things have a way of slipping in through narrow spaces."


It was a great short...
Brimstone and Marmalade
AuthorAaron Corwin
ISBN1466856394
Just in time for Halloween, we have a funny, sweet, and slightly skewed short story by Aaron Corwin, an up-and-coming writer from Seattle.

All Mathilde wanted for her birthday was a pony. Instead, she got a demon. Sometimes growing up means learning that what you think you want is not always...
Red as Blood and White as Bone
AuthorTheodora Goss
ISBN0765389428
I am a daughter of these mountains, and of the tales. Once, I wanted to be in the tales themselves. When I was young, I had my part in one—a small part, but important. When I grew older, I had my part in another kind of story. But now I want to become a teller of tales.

this story is everything that's...
The Horrid Glory of Its Wings
AuthorElizabeth Bear
ISBN1429926007
jess was right, this is an amazing story.

“Mama Alice would say that God never gives us any burdens we can’t carry.”

The harpy says, Does she look you in the eye when she says that?

wow, so i waited too long to write my review for this, and between jess and karly and kat stark,...
Men Who Wish to Drown
AuthorElizabeth Fama
ISBN1466827157
From the Falmouth Historical Society Collection

Cited as the only extant firsthand record of a mermaid encounter in New England waters, this deathbed letter from a great-grandfather to his great-grandson is more likely an instructive fiction--a parable of regret. Supposedly corroborating...
That Game We Played During the War
AuthorCarrie Vaughn
ISBN0765389355
The people of Gaant are telepaths. The people of Enith are not. The two countries have been at war for decades, but now peace has fallen, and Calla of Enith seeks to renew an unlikely friendship with Gaantish officer Valk over an even more unlikely game of chess, in Carrie Vaughn's novella That Game We Played...
Heads Will Roll
AuthorLish McBride
ISBN1466834013
badass cage fighting unicorn?? don't mind if i do.



so this one takes place in the same world as Hold Me Closer, Necromancer, but like The Too-Clever Fox, and UNLIKE A Visit to the House on Terminal Hill: A Tor.Com Original, it will still make sense to the uninitiated. like me. I KNOW, I...
Cold Wind
AuthorNicola Griffith
AND NOW IS THE TIME OF YEAR I FLOAT OLD CHRISTMAS REVIEWS TO COUNTDOWN TO BING BONG BING BONG!!

It was one of the most pernicious fallacies, common the world over: old ways are best. But old ways can outlast their usefulness. Old ways can live on pointlessly in worlds that have no room for them.

i...
A Kiss With Teeth
AuthorMax Gladstone
I'm upping my rating from 4.5 stars to 5 stars on rereading this Tor.com online freebie. I love this story! Vlad the vampire is married to a human (in fact, the woman who was originally hunting him down!). They have a young son, and Vlad tries to live like a regular human, denying his darker self and powers....
In the Sight of Akresa
AuthorRay Wood
ISBN1466868996
Claire's lover has no tongue. A slave liberated from a heathen temple, Aya cannot tell the story of her stolen voice, or of her and Claire's unfolding love. She cannot speak her pain, her joy, or her sorrow. And if she sees that which eludes the blind goddess of justice, she cannot bear witness. "In the Sight...
The Hanging Game
AuthorHelen Marshall
ISBN1466839252
Sometimes a game, even a sacred game, can have far-reaching consequences. In bear country young Skye learns just how far she is willing to go to play the game properly in order carry on the traditions that came before her and will most likely continue long after she is gone.
At the publisher's request,...
Lullaby for a Lost World
AuthorAliette de Bodard
ISBN0765389819
Charlotte died to shore up her master's house. Her bones grew into the foundation and pushed up through the walls, feeding his power and continuing the cycle. As time passes and the ones she loved fade away, the house and the master remain, and she yearns ever more deeply for vengeance.

At the...
Triquetra
AuthorKirstyn McDermott
"Triquetra" by Kirstyn McDermott is a dark fantasy novelette about the fraught relationship between Snow White and her stepmother after Snow White has married the prince and has her own child. She visits her stepmother monthly promising to kill her in ever more horrible ways, at the same time attempting...
These Deathless Bones
AuthorCassandra Khaw
“I hate you.” I crouch in front of him. “You have no understanding as to how much. You charmed little prick.”

I have to say I agree with this statement when I read about the horrific little brat kid and all of the things the stepmother was telling us he did. He deserved to boil!



He...
Daughter of Necessity
AuthorMarie Brennan
i do love stories like this - stories that take a well-known work as their foundation and then poke around in it to locate the parts of the story that stick out in our minds as unfinished or unexplored. where the heck did heathcliff go for those three years? what were bertha and miss havisham like before all...
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