Nothing to See Here Review: Don’t Look Away
Lillian is wasting away in a dead-end job and marinating in her directionless rage when she receives a letter: will she, a person who has no experience with kids or teaching, come be a…
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Author: Christina Ladd
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Come Tumbling Down Review: Good Monsters
Seanan McGuire’s Wayward Children series has been brilliant from start to finish, book to book, and she’s so prolific that I’m running out of ways to encourage people to read it. Would threats work?…
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Ice, Ice Baby: 10 Chilly Tales
Maybe you’re really feeling the season. Maybe you watched Frozen II and want to keep up the ice vibes. Maybe you’re someplace warm and want the illusion of cold as you swelter. Whatever your…
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Top 17 Books of the Year
’Tis the season for Top Ten lists, but I couldn’t narrow things down that much (let alone do any kind of list for the entire decade), so here are my top 17 books that…
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Sisters of The Vast Black Review: On the Raggedy Edge
You know why you should read Sisters of the Vast Black, the space opera Lina Rather condensed into a novella? Because it's Firefly with nuns. Well, more specifically it's Serenity with nuns, not least…
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Spoilers Ahead: The Name of All Things Discussion
Note: Jenn Lyons’s first book Ruin of Kings was such a hit with Geekly readers that we wanted to do even more to showcase her second book, The Name of All Things. And as…
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Song of the Crimson Flower Review: Sweetly Magical
YA romance usually leaves me yawning, but I was utterly spellbound by the beautiful, tender story at the heart of Julie C. Dao’s Song of the Crimson Flower. The two leads, Bao and Lan,…
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The Deep Review: Sink Down and Rise Up
There are some books that you know will be important from the first page. Sometimes it's the subject matter, sometimes it's the author, and sometimes it's the sheer mesmerism of the language. With The…
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Details, Details: What You Need to Remember from Ruin of Kings
The Name of All Things is almost here, and we could not be more excited! But to fully appreciate all this truly epic follow-up has to offer, here are the the 10 things you…
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A Lush and Seething Hell Review: Ain’t I King of Hell?
This book is in contention for my favorite horror of 2019, but it’s already won for best title. A Lush and Seething Hell. How can you not want to read something that calls to…
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