Wombling Along
Hellloooo!
Hope you’re all ok? Welcome to the blog’s weekend supplement where I gather up reviews and articles that caught my eye this week.
Not much to update on this week. I have a new team member so I have spent a lot of my time getting them to know people they need to know and then do my job. In a few weeks that will pay off. Reading went well but blimey I was tired after work and not much time to be online!
Reviews
Starting off well with Strange Horizons and a non la-fiction that impresses Manga’s First Century by Andrea Horbinkski
Those Nerds of a Feather tempt me with Lessons In Magic by Charlie-Jane Anders
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2026/02/book-review-lessons-in-magic-and.html
Blue book Balloon explored a timely new take on Wuthering Heights with Catherine by Essie Fox
https://bluebookballoon.blogspot.com/2026/02/blogtour-review-catherine-by-essie-fox.html?m=1
They also hugely enjoyed like I did In This City, Where It Rains by Lyndsey Croal
https://bluebookballoon.blogspot.com/2026/02/review-in-this-city-where-it-rains-by.html?m=1
The Fantasy Hive really recommend The Forest On The Edge of Time by Jasmin Kirkbride
https://fantasy-hive.co.uk/2026/02/the-forest-on-the-edge-of-time-by-jasmin-kirkbride-book-review/
Seize The Press have a good review exploring why A Voice Calling by Christopher Barzak did not quite work for the reviewer
https://www.seizethepress.com/2026/01/30/a-voice-calling-review-stp13/
Ancillary Review of Books enjoyed Greg Evan’s latest novel Morphotropic
https://ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2026/02/13/melting-and-morphing-into-mastery/
They also enjoyed the intriguing Beyond the Glittering World - An Anthology of Indigenous Feminisms and Futurisms edited by Stacie Shannon Denetsosie, Kinsale Drake and Darcie Little Badger
https://ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2026/02/11/make-a-kind-of-light/
Lightspeed tempts The Best Weird Fiction of the Year Volume 1 edited by Michael Kelly
Locus has a look at The Dark, Uncanny, The Deadlands and Apex
https://locusmag.com/review/the-dark-uncanny-the-deadlands-and-apex-review-by-paula-guran/
they also have an interesting look at The Village at the Edge of Noon by Darya Bobyleva
Reading Reality tempt with After The Fall by Edward Ashton
https://www.readingreality.net/2026/02/a-bookreview-after-the-fall-by-edward-ashton/
SF Book gets intrigued by A Forest, Darkly by AG Slatter which I’m loving at the moment
https://sfbook.com/a-forest-darkly.htm
Alasdair Stuart continues their weekly 2000AD reviews
https://alasdairstuart.com/2026-ad-prog-2469/
Fanfi Addict enjoyed the creepy sounding The Boatman by Alex Grecian
https://fanfiaddict.com/review-the-boatman-by-alex-grecian/
Jamreads was impressed by All That Is In The Earth by Andrew Knighton
https://jamreads.com/reviews/all-that-is-in-the-earth-by-andrew-knighton
And A Colder Home by Jillian Maria
https://jamreads.com/reviews/a-colder-home-by-jillian-maria
Gingernuts of Horror have a tempting trio starting with The Night of the Mannequins by Stephen Graham Jones
https://gnofhorror.com/night-of-the-mannequins-stephen-graham-jones-review/
Maria The Wanted by V Castro for some vampire tales
https://gnofhorror.com/maria-the-wanted-review-v-castros-vampire-novel/
And Also A Forest, Darkly by AG Slatter
https://gnofhorror.com/a-forest-darkly-review-dark-fantasy-witch-lore/
Reactor finish things off with being impressed by The Isle In The Silver Sea by Tasha Suri
https://reactormag.com/book-review-the-isle-in-the-silver-sea-by-tasha-suri/
Articles
Nick Hubble explores Lord of The Rings and how it links to the Hobbit
Abigail Nussbaum continues their reread too at The Wrong Questions
https://wrongquestions.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-great-tolkien-reread-old-forest.html?m=1
Max Gladstone talks here about how writing is more than simply writing words on a page than some AI evangelists should try to understand
https://buttondown.com/MaxGladstone/archive/writing-doesnt-always-look-the-way-you-think/
Reader of Else gives us their holiday reading
https://readerofelse.wordpress.com/2026/02/11/what-i-read-on-my-holiday-2026/
Speculative Insight had this essay exploring Speculative fiction authors from Southeast Asia
https://www.speculativeinsight.com/essays/sea-is-whose
Round Ups
Ancillary has their regular Wow Signal
https://ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2026/02/07/wow-signal-february-2026/
Always check in with The Full Lid’s weekly edition
https://mailchi.mp/09854d36400f/the-full-lid-13th-february-2026
For more temptations and analysis please remember to read and subscribe to Intergalactic MixTape
https://buttondown.com/intergalacticmixtape/archive/intergalactic-mixtape-40/
And finally I really liked Stewart Hotston’s reappraisal of the accuracy of the villains in Star Wars
https://stewarthotston.com/2026/02/09/why-annoyingly-i-had-to-reassess-star-wars-villains/
Have a great weekend and enjoy your reading!
