Tara Sim’s Timekeeper takes place in an alternate Victorian England, in a world where clocks don’t just tell time, they determine how—and whether—it passes. Danny Hart is a brilliant clock mechanic obsessed with rescuing his father from a town where time has stopped altogether, and who falls in love with a boy whose relationship with time is even more […]
Nothing gives me joy like seeing more great representation for teens in various letters of the rainbow, especially when we get past the same old narratives in the same old genres with the same old rep. The first half of the year was rife with great LGBTQIAP+ reads—you can see 15 of them here, to […]
There’s something about the rich worldbuilding of historical novels and fantasy that make the genres the perfect complement to each other. And both fantasy novels and historical novels have suffered from similar disingenuous reasoning around their lack of diversity: that the inclusion of, say, people of color or queer people isn’t historically accurate, and that […]
The stories continue! Find out what your favorite characters have been up to and where they’re going next in this amazing collection of next installments in series of all genres. (Please note that spoilers are to be expected, but will be kept as vague as possible!) You can also find highly anticipated sequels among our […]
Let’s face it: while there’s some truly original, astounding work being done in the YA category, it is sometimes, occasionally, once in a while called out for the way it revels in its particular tropes. Case in point? The brooding YA hero. Writer Carrie DiRisio was so enamored by the idea of bending and twisting […]