YA romance usually leaves me yawning, but I was utterly spellbound by the beautiful, tender story at the heart of Julie C. Dao’s Song of the Crimson Flower. The two leads, Bao and Lan, won me over almost immediately with their good hearts and their wonderful story. Bao is an orphan who has found an …
This book is in contention for my favorite horror of 2019, but it’s already won for best title. A Lush and Seething Hell. How can you not want to read something that calls to mind decadence, decay, the crawling sensation of fear, the rage and fear and epic struggle—all of that and more? You have …
Note: Jenn Lyons’s first book Ruin of Kings was such a hit with Geekly readers that we wanted to do even more to showcase her second book, The Name of All Things. And as Josh MacDougall pointed out, there are two narrators for this second volume, so what better than two reviews and two extras–an …
Note: Jenn Lyons’s first book Ruin of Kings was such a hit with Geekly readers that we wanted to do even more to showcase her second book, The Name of All Things. And as Josh MacDougall pointed out, there are two narrators for this second volume, so what better than two reviews and two extras–an …
This is not a spoiler: the dog lives. We know this at the start. We also know that the narrator lives. Mouse, our intrepid heroine, is definitely worse for the wear, but she’s still able to string sentences together. It is, after all, her profession: she’s a freelance editor. Which is partially to blame for …
When I was younger, I had to develop a system with my family in order to take a bath. I had to let them know when I was going in, and I had to respond to knocks on the door by shouting “still alive!” at various intervals because I stayed in until my finger prunes …
It’s not easy handling multiple identities at once and it’s even less simple to put it on the page, but Candice Montgomery does it with style and grace in her sophomore novel, By Any Means Necessary. Torrey McKenzie is a first generation college freshman at San Francisco State University. After learning the apiary (bee farm) …
It’s that time of year again! Skeletons, witches, and pumpkins galore adorn as decor everywhere you look. There is a crispness in the air…or maybe that was a ghostly spirit following you? In any case your resident “Final Girls’ here at GeeklyInc, Nika Howard and Meagan Varney, love sharing with you our picks for top …
If you’re itching for more heist or gangster YA à la Ace of Shades or Six of Crows, then Into the Crooked Place by Alexandra Christo is here to provide you with all the scams and schemes you’ve been missing. Tavia is a street performer and confidence woman in Creije, a city that traffics in …
Everyone knows good things come in threes, and the most recent example is the comics by B. Mure in the Ismyre series. The third installment is immanent, and there’s no better time than now to start reading this sincere, lovely, and meaningful trio of comics. The wobbly, sketchy style combined with a bit of a …