But Then I Came Back Review: Eden is Burning
While it's not necessary to read This Raging Light to be drawn into But Then I Came Back, this book is a close companion to Estelle Laure's debut, although very different in tone. If…
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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.
Glitter Review: All That Glitters Is…Drugs
I'm trying to imagine being the agent getting this pitch: "A teenage girl who lives in futuristic Versailles wants to escape this corporation-run Baroque world, but has to sell drugs to do it." Is…
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Blood Rose Rebellion: Hungarian Uprising
Miss Anna Arden is Barren. And how does an unmarried teenager in Victorian England know such a thing? Well, she's not barren in the reproductive sense. This is much worse. In the world of…
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Crown of Wishes Review: Heavy are the Hearts that Wear the Crown
I read the first chapter of A Crown of Wishes and immediately had to check twitter. Sure enough, Roshani Chokshi and Stephanie Garber, author of Caraval, follow each other. Did they also edit each…
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The Song Rising Review: Battle Hymn
I was astonished when I picked up The Song Rising by Samantha Shannon, the third installment in the Bone Season septet. It's only 350 pages, shorter than both previous volumes by more than a…
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The Beast is an Animal Review: Of Monsters and Men
This is a book about fear. This is a book about what fear makes. Mostly it makes monsters, and then it makes walls to keep those monsters out, and then--surprise, surprise--it makes more monsters…
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Agents of Dreamland Review: The Static is the Signal
The Signalman is waiting. The cultists are waiting. Time divides them, and a short, terrible burst of violence, but that's not very much, in the scheme of this universe. They all want to know…
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Caraval Review: Synesthesia
Scarlett and her sister Tella live on a conquered and colonized isle under the iron fist of its governor, their father Marcello Dragna. The governor is a brutal man, but Scarlett has a glimmer…
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The Cold Eye Review: Old West Wanderings
Last year about this time there was a spate of Old West fantasy up for grabs, and this year we get the sequels. Cold Eye is the second in the Devil's West trilogy, which…
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Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day Review: Dire Delights and Dirges for the Dead
(I make no apologies for the alliteration, and neither does Seanan McGuire.) You would have to try pretty hard to not enjoy a Seanan McGuire novel. She's just such a good writer, so assured…
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