The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black
T. O. Munro
I should confess that I am not a great aficionado of contemporary vampire stories. I’ve watched a few fragmentary episodes of Buffy, but I’ve have never read Twilight, nor watched…
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The Circle by Mats Strandberg and Sara Bergmark Elfgren
Jo Niederhoff
The majority of the books I read, whether fantasy or another genre, were written in English and published in either America or Britain. It is, therefore, a wonderful surprise when…
Nevernight by Jay Kristoff
Richard Bray
If you read the Harry Potter series and thought, “This is a pleasant little story and all, but I just wish everyone at Hogwarts was a blood-thirsty sociopath and the…
Roses and Rot by Kat Howard
Jonathan Thornton
Editor’s Note: This review may contain spoilers. Please read with caution if you’ve yet to finish the book. This is the thing about fairy tales: You have to live through…
Tara Sim Interview
Leo Elijah Cristea
Today we are lucky enough to have author Tara Sim here to talk about her upcoming novel Timekeeper (Sky Pony Press, Fall 2016). She can often be found in the…
J. K. Rowling is Better than Shakespeare
Max Freeman
Tell me if you’ve ever read these stories before: – A young male sociopath disapproves of everyone and everything around him, including any of his romantic interests. He changes nothing,…
Otherbound by Corinne Duyvis
In my life, I’ve found that there are a few different sorts of books I wind up reading. Some are gifts. Some are books I explicitly sought out. And some…
Hereville: How Mirka Caught a Fish by Barry Deutsch
Mirka of Hereville has defeated a troll in a knitting contest and won her home back from a meteorite that tried to take her place in her family, but now…
Danielle L. Jensen Interview
Today we are lucky enough to have Danielle L. Jensen, author of The Malediction Trilogy with us to answer some questions about the series, which will be wrapping up in…
Hereville: How Mirka Met a Meteorite by Barry Deutsch
I’ve done a post on sequels before, and on the difficulty of making them both true to the original book while still building on the world and the characters. I…
13 Minutes by Sarah Pinborough
“People so often try and make themselves look good when they lie. That, however, should never be the point. The point should be to distract from the truth. Whether you…
Calamity by Brandon Sanderson
This review contains some spoilers for Steelheart and Firefight. Read with caution if you have yet to finish the first two books. “Life was so unfair. You couldn’t both destroy…