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And here's Liz Bourke in Locus Magazine:

locusmag.com/2025/04/the-...
Tesh is an award-winning writer for a reason. Her prose is vivid and elegant. The Incandescent builds its pace and tension with a masterful hand, and it offers its characters, the adults and the teenagers both, a generosity of spirit and great, clear-eyed, searing compassion. They’re all people. Intensely relatable people. (Walden’s combination of intellec­tual snobbery and interpersonal discomfort – both of which she’s aware of and tries to overcome – is painfully recognisable, in fact.) And Tesh’s ability to evoke place is in full swing here: The Incandescent is redolent with old wood polish and new cleaning products, sweaty teenagers and churned grass. This is a brilliant novel, one that marries the energy and verve and peril of the best of the fantasy genre with the understated, literary examination of interior and professional lives. It marries the fantastical to the mundane with great deftness and deep appre­ciation for both. It’s been justly praised by others. All I can add is: It took my breath away.
May 13, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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and between now and our next episode drop, @emilytesh.net has a frankly brilliant book coming out so you'll have time to read that as well:

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The Incandescent
Check out The Incandescent - <p><b>Naomi Novik's Scholomance series meets <i>Plain Bad Heroines</i> in this sapphic dark academia fantasy by instant national and international bestselling author Emily...
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May 10, 2025 at 2:50 PM