My Year In Books: 2024

In 2024 I read 141 books with a total of 45,275 pages, and I gave out just two five star ratings (oof.)

Beneath Strange Lights by Vivian Moira Valentine (Amelia Temple #1)

I thought back to four years ago, when I first began insisting I was a girl. I remembered the way the Bureau reacted. It all seemed tied up in the same sort of strange ideas about men and women I’d picked up from people. I’d long known I didn’t fit into their neat little boxes, but for the first time I wondered whether I’d made a mistake.

Amelia Temple is an eldritch horror imprisoned by the United States government for the past seventeen years. She’s also, now that she’s allowed to mingle in society a bit, a trans lesbian teenager who investigates strange occurrences with the help of her girlfriend and her other girl friend.

Against Fearful Lies by Vivian Moira Valentine (Amelia Temple #2)

They cowered at my feet. Through their senses I saw myself towering over them, glorious and terrible, a writhing figure wrought of weird matter, lit by strange lights. A figure of awe. Of fear. Of worship.