The Hazel Wood Review: Alice in Hinterland
The Hazel Wood, by Melissa Albert, is like three books for the price of one. It's a mystery, a fairy tale, and then it's a meta-meditation. What's wonderful about it is that if you…
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Author: Christina Ladd
One of the Books & Comics editors at Geekly. She/her. Sailor Rainbow. Glitter and spite and everything bright.
Reign of the Fallen Review: Needs Change
The kingdom of Karthia is ruled by the dead and sustained by the living, and mediated by those with the Sight. It is a world so perfectly balanced that change itself has been forcibly…
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Forever Ship Review: Every Man’s Fear Onboard
It is not immediately apparently what ship The Forever Ship by Francesca Haig is referring to. The ship that comes from a more advanced country to save a violently divided nation? That same ship,…
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Beneath the Sugar Sky Review: God Does Not Bake Dice for the Universe
This is my favorite of the Wayward Children series thus far, and it's not like the first two were slouches. After a stint on the moors in Down Among the Sticks and Bones, we…
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Books for the New Year, 2018
The next few months have some promising releases, and I’ve compiled the best of them all in one place. Cruel Prince - January 2: Holly Black never disappoints with her combination of adventure, romance,…
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Girl in the Tower Review: Your Princess is Storming Another Castle
When we last saw Vasya in The Bear and the Nightingale, she had just survived the onslaught of the Bear, who wanted to bring unending death and night to Rus. Vasya's witchy powers, combined…
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Here are six books to bring with you into the holiday season, whether you need something to make you laugh, to help you escape for a bit, to make you feel epic, or to…
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There's a trend in SFF and YA publishing that has begun to grate on me, and I share it with you now so that you can share in my irritation. For lack of a…
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September Reviews: Japanese Light Novels and Magic Women
Girls Made of Snow and Glass (Melissa Bashardoust) - The writing is elegant, as are Bashardoust's interpretations of the elements we all know so well, mirrors and apples and snow. Mina, the "evil queen,"…
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The Red Threads of Fortune and The Black Tides of Heaven Reviews
The Red Threads of Fortune and The Black Tides of Heaven by JY Yang are a matched pair of stories, and I figured that whichever I read first would change the way I read…
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