The Seventh Bride Review: Follow the Hedgehog
There's a lot of mileage in fairy tales, and I don't know why people keep going back to the same old Disney classics when they could just open Grimm's and find something fresh to remake…
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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.
This is Halloween: Roundtable on Our Favorite Frights
Christina Ladd: Area X Cross-contamination between various media was always inevitable. Books that read like movies--and now books that read like video games--were always going to happen, and I'm not sorry they did. But…
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A Borrowed Man Review: The Maltese Volume
One of the blurbs on the back of A Borrowed Man describes the book as "Wolfean." Meaning, that it was written by and is quintessentially representative of Gene Wolfe, one of our modern SFF masters.…
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Clean Room #1 Review: A Pink and Promising Start
The Clean Room #1 is a tantalizing first step into a world that is altogether a little too familiar. Everything is overexposed--in graphic detail--but somehow still full of hidden agendas. Each character's story immediately dramatically unfair,…
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Carry On Review: Simon Says Read This Book
The first and only thing you need to know about this book is that it's magnificently, enthrallingly, undeniably brilliant and you should read it. Immediately. Well, what are you waiting for? Go, go! Unconvinced?…
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The Unnoticeables Review: Never Mind the Balls of Evil Angelic Light
There's a story about the punk movement that goes like this: Someone asked me "what is punk?" so I kicked over a garbage can. He kicked over another garbage can and asked, "so that's…
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Last Song Before Night Review: The Secret Chord
Apparently it's music week here at Geekly, because after the punk-rock showdown that was The Unnoticeables, we now have Last Song Before Night, a decidedly different take on what happens when you mix magic…
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Beauty – Poison – Charm Reviews: Grimmer than Grimm(‘s)
I'm a sucker for fairy tales. A large part of that probably comes from growing up in the golden age of Disney animation. Another large part of that comes from the fact that fairy…
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Binti Review: A Bit of Earth to Make It Live
Oh, Nnedi Okorafor. You make the unknown familiar and the familiar delectably strange. You make magic more than just mathematical formulae, and you make math into magic. You turn earth into history, history in…
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Interview with Scott Hawkins, Author of The Library at Mount Char
The Library at Mount Char is one of my favorite books of 2015, and I sat down with author Scott Hawkins to discuss languages, dogs, and homicidal librarians. Christina Ladd: What had you picking…
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