Continuing the theme of Russian-related YA, I wanted to draw attention to a 2015 release that is a little younger than YA and a lot more amazing than anticipated. Very--very--loosely based on the tale…
Graham-Jones's Mongrels was a sleeper hit for me from 2016, a story about a young man who's a late-bloomer in his family of werewolves. Did it say anything new about that beaten-to-death subject, the…
Aurora has a big secret. She's not special. Oh, she's a princess. She's heir to a city-state and has never known physical hardship. She's lovely, adept in languages, a gifted horsewoman, and a practiced…
When I was younger, I always wanted a twin. Siblings were fine, but a twin--that would really have been something. Someone just like me who I could always depend on, who would be there…
Breathing new life into old characters is the second-oldest tradition in storytelling, right after making those characters up in the first place. Oh, I could tell you about modern trends, what Wicked and The Red…
A note before I get started: this book should come with one of those advisory warnings, except instead of warning parents against explicit lyrics, it should just warn everyone about lyrics. Just lyrics. Because…
Even though Mindy McGinnis is an accomplished author, this feels very much like a first book. I suppose it's because Given to the Sea is her first foray into fantasy, a genre divide that…
Killing Gravity is a novella by Corey J. White that is hopefully the first in a series featuring Mars, a void witch, space witch, a living psychic weapon. She and her...pet...a creature named Seven,…
There was never going to be a question of whether City of Miracles, the final installment* of the Divine Cities trilogy by Robert Jackson Bennett, was good. Of course it was going to be…
Well! Waking Gods certainly doesn't waste any time, I'll tell you that much. Despite taking place about ten years after the first book (Sleeping Giants), everything is as urgent and immediate as ever. Global…