People often repeat the truncated quote “blood is thicker than water,” forgetting that the full quote is “the blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb.” Impressively, both of these…
The last fifty pages of The Belles took me as long to read as the rest of the book, because I didn't want the story to end. Plus, the tension was unbearable. There were…
When Pride and Prejudice and Zombies came out, I was as delighted as anyone else. What a clever concept! I thoroughly enjoyed it for what it was, a not-too-serious romp through Regency England and…
The Hazel Wood, by Melissa Albert, is like three books for the price of one. It's a mystery, a fairy tale, and then it's a meta-meditation. What's wonderful about it is that if you…
The kingdom of Karthia is ruled by the dead and sustained by the living, and mediated by those with the Sight. It is a world so perfectly balanced that change itself has been forcibly…
It is not immediately apparently what ship The Forever Ship by Francesca Haig is referring to. The ship that comes from a more advanced country to save a violently divided nation? That same ship,…
This is my favorite of the Wayward Children series thus far, and it's not like the first two were slouches. After a stint on the moors in Down Among the Sticks and Bones, we…
When we last saw Vasya in The Bear and the Nightingale, she had just survived the onslaught of the Bear, who wanted to bring unending death and night to Rus. Vasya's witchy powers, combined…
Here are six books to bring with you into the holiday season, whether you need something to make you laugh, to help you escape for a bit, to make you feel epic, or to…
With the third entry of Brandon Sanderson's The Stormlight Archives, Oathbringer, releasing today, the arc that comprises the first five books is more than halfway through. The third book takes nearly all the events…