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But Not Too Bold

By Hache Pueyo
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The Shape of Water meets Mexican Gothic in this sapphic monster romance novella wrapped in gothic fantasy trappings

The old keeper of the keys is dead, and the creature who ate her is the volatile Lady of the Capricious House⁠—Anatema, an enormous humanoid spider with a taste for laudanum and human brides.

Dália, the old keeper’s protégée, must take up her duties, locking and unlocking the little drawers in which Anatema keeps her memories. And if she can unravel the crime that led to her predecessor's execution, Dália might just be able to survive long enough to grow into her new role.

But there’s a gaping hole in Dália’s plan that she refuses to see: Anatema cannot resist a beautiful woman, and she eventually devours every single bride that crosses her path.

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But Not Too Bold Reviews

3.5
“I was going to deduct stars for all the tarantula inaccuracies that kept taking me, a tarantula nerd, out of the story. But then it just ended up being really good, anyway, and I had to give 5 stars”
“I loved this book a lot more than I should. For a moment at the end I was worried this wouldn't be Sapphic and the MC would end up with a man, but I am happy to report that was not the case. Also, this book has officially started my Sapphic monster fad now and I'm pissed. I don't need more books than I already have and I have a commitment to read all the Sapphic vampire books I can get my hands on! There are to many gays in my TBR! I'm proud of it though. This book was beautifully written and I like how the monster is actually monstrous since many female monsters aren't portrayed that way so they can remain beautiful. Do I wish this book was longer? Yes, obviously. Do I think that it didn't everything it set out to do? Yes. I'm looking forward to this author's next novel and hopefully it's more of Sapphic flavored monsters to keep me warm at night.”
“I'm not sure what I just read. The beginning of the novella was interesting and I was excited to see where it went. But I can't wrap my head around how we got to the ending that we got. The events that happened in the last half do not logically lead to the ending that occurred.”

About Hache Pueyo

Hache Pueyo is an Argentine-Brazilian writer and translator. She won an Otherwise Fellowship for her work with gender in speculative fiction, and her work has appeared as H. Pueyo in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons, and The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, among others. She is the author of A Study in Ugliness & Outras Histórias, But Not Too Bold and Cabaret in Flames.

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