This is Not (Not) a Best Of 2021 List
This list makes no claim to comprehensiveness, even as far as I, the reviewer, am concerned. It's just a list of books I liked and wanted to talk about at the end of the…
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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.
Stocking Stuffers: Books Edition
Stockings are one of my favorite Christmas traditions. There’s something that never stops being fun about finding small treasures meant to do nothing but delight, with no running around to find the hottest and…
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Gilded Review: All That Glitters
Fairy tales are a double edged sword. I think all of us have been inclined toward reboots not because we’re Hollywood dupes or whatever the alarmist discourse is now, but because the familiar is…
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Little Thieves Review: Peace Was Never an Option
It’s a lovely morning in the village, and you are a horrible girl. Wait. Goose. You’re a horrible goose. Well, you’re a horrible goose girl. The Goose Girl, to be more specific—or both of them, the princess with the…
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The Death of Jane Lawrence Review: Gothic Goodness
I only meant to start this book. I did. And then suddenly it was way too late at night and I was several hundred pages deep, reading the same paragraph three times because I…
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Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid (of These Books)
It’s spooky season! Time to curl up with a cozy blanket, something warm to drink, and a good book. This October has an embarrassment of riches as far as horror goes, and we have…
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Nothing But Blackened Teeth Review: Dark Smiles, Burnt Tongues
Imagine a mouth full of teeth that are black instead of white. Are you thinking of tooth decay, of weakness and rot? Are you thinking of darkness, the primal kind that lives in a…
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Reminder: T. Kingfisher Books Exist, You Should Read Them
Did you know that T. Kingfisher, authoress of the phenomenal horror novels The Twisted Ones and Hollow Places, heroine of the pandemic who gave us A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking, and the brilliant…
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A Spindle Splintered Review: Fate is a Needle but Choice is a Thread
I must shamefacedly admit that A Spindle Splintered is the first book by Alix Harrow that I've read, but I can at least say that it certainly won't be the last. This tiny powerhouse of…
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Light From Uncommon Stars Review: Extraordinary
This book, friends. THIS BOOK. Do you want to read something you will then have to close and hug to your chest partway through? Do you want to read a book that never flinches…
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