Monthly Awards...

This page contains the most recent awards given by this site. For archives, see Reviewer of the Month and Author of the Month.

Raven's Reviewer of the Month

It's time I said thank you to all the reviewers who have helped make this site so wonderful. Each month, the reviewer who contributed the most to the site will receive this award, and eventually a nice little image to put on their personal page ^_^.

The month of January saw Dragon receive her first Reviewer of the Month award, though she has been an amazing source of support for this site for several months, adding both book reviews and images to our humble pages. Her work for this month can be seen on the pages of L. E. Modesitt, Anne McCaffrey, David Eddings, and Terry Brooks. The images she has worked so hard on include the award images, the site banners, and the main site image on the main page.

Close behind Dragon was the ever-helpful Bina, who doesn't need another award image quite this soon ^_^.

Raven's Choice Author of the Month

With so many authors out there, it's all too easy for even great ones to be overlooked by readers and critics alike. Each month, I will choose an author who, in my opinion, is either undervalued in the SF&F community, or one who is new and deserves to be applauded. This award is limited to paper publishing at this time. E-book authors may eventually get their own award.

February: Though Robin McKinley has received the Newberry Medal for The Hero and the Crown, she remains generally underappreciated in the Fantasy community, perhaps because her books are usually classified as young adult novels. Many of those who love her work, however, are far beyond their teenage years, and more adults should be aware of her contributions to a different kind of feminist literature. In the Kipling-esque novels of Damar, McKinley put a twist into the fairy tale of the foreign princess who grows up to marry the prince- in these cases, the princess has to save the world herself before she can live happily ever after. The princess in Deerskin has a different problem: she must come to terms with a destructive past, which includes rape, before she can become her own person. Finally, Beauty and Rose Daughter are two lovely retellings of Beauty and the Beast, and though they are written in two different styles, they both center on a caring and pragmatic young woman who finds a way out of enchantment and into a gentle, realistic love. If you like fantasy and wish more of it focused on women, pick up something by McKinley and find yourself enchanted.

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