#am reading

As many of y'all know, I released the audiobook companion to ⚡️THORUNN⚡️, my scifi ya fiction novel. The summary follows below, and you can search the tag content on my blog to find out more.

I'm putting this post out exclusively to the writeblr community—I know the audiobook is very expensive, far more so than the ebook, or even the print copy. I unfortunately do not control the pricing; that's all up to Amazon. However, ACX has provided me with a limited number of codes I can offer that will allow you to listen to the novel for free!

If you're interested—and are able to leave a thoughtful review on Amazon of between a few sentences to a few paragraphs upon completion of the novel—please DM me with your contact info, and I'll be happy to set you up with a review copy of the audiobook.

📚 Book #17/2026

☠️ Mort by Terry Pratchett

I had to pause to read up on the history of colonialism and the immediate post-emancipation period in Jamaica, and I'm still not sure I understand all the nuances of race, color, class and gender that shape Antoinette's experiences--in fact, I'm very sure that I don't grasp it all--but God, this book is rich. The Rochester of it all is such a small part of Antoinette's story; only the ending, really. Her relationships to the women who surround her, to the forces of race and class, to the power structures that see her plucked from the convent (the only place she feels safe, despite seeing the hollowness of Christian faith) and married off largely against her will, to a man who thinks of the people she loves as savage and of her as strange and alien, are so much more interesting than her relationship with him. He's contemptible, sure, but there's so much more happening with her interiority.