When I was born, my great grandmother put a black fist bracelet around my wrist to protect me from evil spirits. And I was six, the first time my grandmother called me a child of Shango. I grew up knowing about the Orishas, connecting their qualities to those of Catholic saints. I knew the facts …
Wow. Just…wow. In a good way. In the best way. You want to know how to do horror and gore and also troubled family dynamics and colonialism in a single YA book? Look no further. Rebecca Schaeffer’s Not Even Bones is your dark remedy to the fact that Darkdawn got pushed back. This is one …
The zombie- and magic-infused retelling of Romeo and Juliet that began with Bright Smoke, Cold Fire now finally has a conclusion in Endless Water, Starless Sky. It’s been hard to wait even the usual year for the sequel, since the blood-soaked cliffhanger was so heartbreaking. But Rosamund Hodge has not been idle. This is a …
To celebrate the release of a movie from over two years ago, Jonah and Kieran are joined by Richard Martin of Cult Popture to review Civil War. Is everyone really just a massive ass? Check out Cult Popture, @cultpopture on all good social media channels! Follow the show: Twitter, Twitch, InstagramFollow the hosts: Jonah, KieranJoin …
In honor of the amazing Half-Witch having come out this month, here are five other titles doing things by half measure only in the title. (I am not sorry for the puns.) But first, here’s a bit about Half-Witch: Half-Witch (John Schoffstall) – Lizbet Linz is not a witch. Nor is her father, although he …
This week we are joined by Vince Kenny of the Transformation Sequence podcast to talk about the horror manga Tokyo Ghoul. How does a sad anime boy react to finding out the girl he wanted to date actually wanted to eat him? If the only human food you can eat was coffee would that be …
The Big Water came, bigger than anyone expected. Dire climate change warnings weren’t dire enough, and much of the world either drowned or descended into chaos. But the Diné—the proper title for the Navajo people—survived behind a vast wall made from magic as much as brick. The magic that had once only existed in whispers …
Archivist Wasp was one of my favorite books of 2015 and up there for one of my favorite new fantasy titles, period. It was such a rough, raw book, the literary equivalent of a rebel yell, and not just because it was a debut. Furious and dreamlike and achingly emotional, it was everything I never …
We are joined this week by Cody Boker from the S House Network to talk all about Deadpool. But not just any Deadpool, Cable & Deadpool. What do these two have in common? They’re both after the same virus that will lead to everyone on Earth looking like a member of the Blue Man Group. …
Bright We Burn (Kiersten White) – July 10 – WHY is this trilogy ending? I mean, I know it has to. It’s not a series. Also, it’s based on historical figures who are extremely dead. (Well, one of them is a reinterpretation of Vlad Tepes, basis for Dracula, so maybe it could go on a …