Friendship, Art, and Family Are At the Center of Laura Tucker’s Debut Middle Grade All the Greys on Greene Street
Laura Tucker’s debut novel All the Greys on Greene Street takes place in 1981, throughout the network of streets and…
Book Reviews
Book Review: Exploring Mental Health and Acceptance in Nicole Melleby’s Hurricane Season
Hurricane season is a time of uncertainty. The months can pass by without any fanfare at all. Or the winds…
In Laini Taylor’s Muse of Nightmares, Grief, Godspawn, and Learning to Forgive
Are you ready to return to a world where guilt and grief are tied together in a never-ending circle, and…
A Dangerous World Grows Darker in A Reaper at the Gates
The situation was grim from the start in the brutal Martial Empire Sabaa Tahir created in debut novel An Ember in…
With Legendary, the Magic of Caraval Breaks Free
The second book in a fantasy series can be a tricky, elusive thing. It’s the second novel that’s charged with…
Marisha Pessl’s Neverworld Wake Is a Shape-Shifting Binge Read
Some stories are all in the setup: what you need to know about their plot is in the teaser copy,…
Mark Oshiro’s Debut Anger Is A Gift Delivers A Powerful Punch
Mark Oshiro’s much-hyped Anger Is A Gift is an intricately built but deceptively straightforward addition to the canon of novels…
Difficult Women Shine in Claire Legrand’s Furyborn
Fans of Daughter of Smoke & Bone and The Mortal Instruments rejoice: there are new angels on the block. But…
Justina Ireland’s Dread Nation Packs a Punch
In Justina Ireland’s Dread Nation, the dead have risen from the Civil War battlefields to walk again—but they’re not the…
The Radical Element Gives the Spotlight to History’s Rebellious Girls
With the release of The Radical Element, her follow-up to the outstanding A Tyranny of Petticoats, Jessica Spotswood has just…
Emily X.R. Pan’s debut novel The Astonishing Color of After Soars
In Emily X.R. Pan’s debut novel, Leigh Chen Sanders feels things in color. The “cold cerulean” of grief, the “puke…
Tess of the Road Introduces a New Heroine From the World of Seraphina
There are more than a few stories about remarkable girls, torn between worlds, who overcome all odds to become the…
Dhonielle Clayton’s Lush The Belles Is Must-Read Dystopian Fantasy
Now that she and her sisters are sixteen, the moment The Belles‘ heroine, Camellia, has been waiting for her entire…
Margaret Rogerson’s An Enchantment of Ravens Is an Instant Fantasy Classic
My hunger for books about fairies—not the pretty kind but the Fair Folk, the fey, the Sidhe, terrifying figures who…
Kristin Cashore’s Jane, Unlimited Explores the Infinite Possibilities of Storytelling
News of Graceling author Kristin Cashore’s first book set outside the Graceling realm dropped last November with a bang, thrilling…
10 Hilarious, Remarkable, and Poignant Moments in David Sedaris’ Theft by Finding
The humor of David Sedaris is often so understated it feels perfectly naturalistic, as if he’s simply making up droll anecdotes…
I Believe in a Thing Called Love Is the Romantic Comedy We Deserve
In these trying times, we can all use some joy and goodness. Thankfully, Maureen Goo’s latest offering, I Believe in…
In Nevertheless, Alec Baldwin Makes His Brand Brutal Honesty
On the third page of Alec Baldwin’s unvarnished new memoir, Nevertheless, he startles you with this: “I’m not actually writing…