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…
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has this to say on the subject of Douglas Adams. On May 11, 2001, Douglas Adams, author of the Trilogy in Five series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, died…
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…
BBC Two is set to adapt China Miéville's The City & The City into a four-part series written by Tony Grisoni whose screen credits include Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and The Young Pope (for all you Pope Zone…
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,…
Is it Superman? Is it a plane? No, it's a very tiny owl! This week, the trio wrap up Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and discuss the book at length - like some…