Since 2007, Steven King's The Dark Tower has been in development hell shifting hands from J.J. Abrams, Damon Lindelof, and Ron Howard before ultimately landing in the grasps of Akiva Goldman, Jeff Pinker, and…
There's a quote from Angela Carter's "The Tiger's Bride" that I particularly like: "The tiger will never lie down with the lamb; he acknowledges no pact that is not reciprocal. The lamb must learn…
We've survived half a year beyond 2016! What an accomplishment, and what better way to celebrate than to look yet further forward. Deliberately without an order of preference and in order of release, here…
There was a spate of SFF Westerns a year or so ago, but now YA SFF has turned its attention to Russia. We already had the Grisha trilogy by Leigh Bardugo, but with Crooked…
Before I begin reviewing the book, I must first review the title. At least enough to say: it sucks. It sucks! It sucks, it sucks, it sucks. Rather than intriguing me, it actively put…
(Look, if Cindy Pon can reference Jay Chou, I can reference Jay Chou, okay?) Taiwan of the future is a great place to be--if you're rich. In fact, the world is a pretty great…
In no particular order, some of the books I have read this year or am reading and feel like talking about. 1. Frogkisser! - It's so cute and absolutely trademark Garth Nix. He's like…
The minute I saw the name for this book, I exclaimed—ostensibly to my husband, but my cat or the open air would have sufficed—"of course this needs to be a book. Why has no…
Continuing the theme of Russian-related YA, I wanted to draw attention to a 2015 release that is a little younger than YA and a lot more amazing than anticipated. Very--very--loosely based on the tale…
Graham-Jones's Mongrels was a sleeper hit for me from 2016, a story about a young man who's a late-bloomer in his family of werewolves. Did it say anything new about that beaten-to-death subject, the…