In honor of the release of This Cruel Design, Emily Suvada’s second book, I read This Mortal Coil, her debut and first installment the trilogy. First let me say that Emily Suvada has some serious cojones and the prose to back it up, that’s for sure. Before fifty pages are up, there’s murder, kidnapping, multiple …
A husband, wife, and their two children living comfortably in the suburbs is the perfect place for a spiritual manipulator to wreck havoc. The opening scene is of the family hiding from an intruder. Within paragraphs, the intruder Marvin is revealed to be a man who actually met the family the day before at a …
Jennie Liu certainly jumped in with both feet with her debut Girls on the Line, a tense and emotionally evocative novel about a two factory workers in a small Chinese city struggling against vast bureaucratic and criminal forces. This is a surprisingly fast-paced tale, starting on day one of Luli’s job at a factory the …
Jane Yolen was YA before there was YA, so it’s interesting to revisit a classic author via new work. Especially since that new work is a novel told entirely in poetry. Jason Reynolds and and Jacqueline Woodson are proof that the novel in verse is not just viable, but supremely potent. But what about SFF …
Bram Stoker’s Dracula was the first adult book I ever read, which sparked my love of the occult in literature. Robert Masello’s The Night Crossing not only did justice to the memory of Bram Stoker but is a much needed reminder of the majesty of the world of vampires and witches. This novel is about …
My first introduction to GRRM was via Game of Thrones, which I quickly fell in love with the ability to juggle multiple characters and varying storylines. So when I got the chance to read and review Nightflyers, a collection of science fiction short stories, I was ecstatic. One of the greatest storytellers of a generation …
It’s October 1st and you know what that means? That’s right, Archie! Also horror, I suppose. Join Jonah & Kieran as we take a look at the incredibly strange idea of melding Archie with a zombie apocalypse. Follow the show: Twitter, Twitch, InstagramFollow the hosts: Jonah, KieranJoin our Patreon!
Tim Lanning of Drunks & Dragons joins our lads once again as we wrap up the initial Thor: God of Thunder story arc in part 2, “Godbomb,” which is either the greatest title a comic book has ever had, or the stupidest. We’ll let YOU decide! Follow the show: Twitter, Twitch, InstagramFollow the hosts: Jonah, …
It’s our 42nd episode and we make zero Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy references. This is either extremely good or bad depending on who you are. But what’s more important is we delve into Marvel’s Thor for the first time with special guest Tim Lanning from The Pope Zone (also the award winning Drunks & …
I didn’t so much read Grim Lovelies as swallow it whole, devouring it in less than a day. It was a fast-paced, action-heavy narrative with innovative magic and a diverse and appealing cast. And because it was fun, it was easy to rush past its flaws, though there were a few. Because of that it …