October Duo: Two Books to Get You in the Halloween Mood
Fall! Finally, an excuse to pretend we’re inside by choice. Cozy blankets, hot cider, and the kind of scares that stay safely within the frame of a TV set or the pages of a…
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Category: New Releases
Read This: Options for Your Hazy End-of-Summer Days
In a reading rut? Wondering what to do with yourself as the heat fluctuates wildly and the pandemic presses on (in America, at least)? Here are eight very different books for this eighth month…
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Kickstarter Alert: Dungeons Box Pocket
Our friends over at Dungeons Co. have some very exciting news...they have a Kickstarter going currently! From now until June 11th their Kickstarter for the companion to their popular Dungeons Box is live. You…
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Asian and Asian American Authors Publishing into the Pandemic
If you’re struggling to find ways to contribute during the pandemic, a small way you can help several communities at once is to buy books by Asian or Asian American authors from your local…
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Hearts of Oak Review: Is Life What We Make?
Note: I don’t think it’s possible to give this book a proper review without at least some spoilers, but since there are several dramatic reveals and—I hesitate to call them “twists” since they’re not…
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Dragon Hoops Review: Superheroic Sports
Dragon Hoops, though it features no actual dragons, accomplished something more magical an inexplicable than most of the fantasy I've been reading. Something so inexplicable, so unbelievable, that I previously didn't think it was…
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Fate of the Fallen Review – The Joy of the Unexpected
When it comes to fantasy, it has inevitable hangers-on, specific ideas, certain character archetypes that spring to mind. Our imagination fills up with magic, swords, dragons, and, of course, heroes. The monomyth that won't…
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Nothing to See Here Review: Don’t Look Away
Lillian is wasting away in a dead-end job and marinating in her directionless rage when she receives a letter: will she, a person who has no experience with kids or teaching, come be a…
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The Library of the Unwritten Review: Librarian’s Unfinished Business
A story can move you to anger, to cry, to empathize with people you do not know or who are imaginary. A story can inspire you to write your own story. But what happens…
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Sisters of The Vast Black Review: On the Raggedy Edge
You know why you should read Sisters of the Vast Black, the space opera Lina Rather condensed into a novella? Because it's Firefly with nuns. Well, more specifically it's Serenity with nuns, not least…
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