Until the popular Guardians of the Galaxy movie was announced, the obscure team of space faring goofballs were an unknown quantity to most. I fall into this category, so I tracked down a few…
Apparently it's music week here at Geekly, because after the punk-rock showdown that was The Unnoticeables, we now have Last Song Before Night, a decidedly different take on what happens when you mix magic…
You know the adage "don't judge a book by it's cover"? Of course you do. No matter how much you might want to take issue with that, just don't judge this book by this…
The board game market has become saturated with small bluffing games; One Night Ultimate Werewolf, Love Letter, Coup, Kobayakawa, Ca$h and Guns. Bad Beets is a game that deserves to be in your…
Angels are tricky. They're not like vampires or werewolves (obviously): their motivations are opaque, and their weaknesses are practically nonexistent. They make poor monsters as a result, and even poorer heroes, prone to perfection…
I have never been what one might call "artistic." In the 3rd grade, when we had to make an animal out of clay, I made an alligator that looked more like some sort of…
Perhaps no other book has influenced my thinking about freedom of expression and the power of art as much as The Merro Tree. Yet when I tell people that, I get blank stares. It's…
People complain that they're sick of vampires, that they're overdone or just done, and I can understand that. There have been a lot of (ahem) pale imitations of Stoker and Rice, far more than good…
Full disclosure: I am a librarian. (Among other things.) Librarian stereotypes are largely mild, often going so far as a severe, buttoned-up woman who shushes people and no further. But of course, then we…
One of the most common ways to build a fantasy setting is to base it on some certain aspect of the real world and then make as many--or as few--tweaks as possible. For a…