Audiobook Review: Why This Wretched Beauty is the Dorian Gray Retelling We Were Always Waiting For Oscar Wilde published The Picture of Dorian Gray in 1890 and was immediately condemned for it. Critics called it unclean, effeminate, contaminating. The original magazine version had already been edited without his knowledge to […]
Book Recommendations: If Project Hail Mary Wrecked You, Read These Next Project Hail Mary is one of those books that sneaks up on you. It starts as a survival puzzle: Ryland Grace wakes up alone on a spacecraft with no memory of who he is or how he got there, […]
Books on Our Radar: The Last Best Quest Ever by F.T. Lukens The Last Best Quest Ever is F.T. Lukens’ newest YA romantasy, out this May. Seventeen-year-old Ellinore has the best questing record in the kingdom and a secret: every single one of her victories is fake. The monsters were […]
Blog Tour & Author Interview: One Word, Six Letters by Adib Khorram We’ve been following Adib Khorram’s work since Darius the Great Is Not Okay, and watching him build a body of work that consistently makes space for readers who don’t often see themselves on the page. His newest novel, […]
Event Recap: FanExpo Cleveland FanExpo Cleveland is exactly what you want from a pop culture convention. Celebrities, panels, vendors, cosplay, and the kind of crowd energy that comes from being surrounded by people who are completely unashamed about the things they love. Star Wars fans next to Twilight fans next […]
Comic Crush: That Time I Marathoned a Stack of Graphic Novels on My TBR I didn’t mean to curate an identity under pressure marathon, but looking at my TBR pile, that’s exactly what happened (with a side of awards season). I just powered through four graphic novels that couldn’t be […]
Books on Our Radar: They Want Us Dead by C.L. Montblanc If Pride or Die lived in your head rent-free, C.L. Montblanc is about to do it again, only this time, things are significantly more stabby. Their new one, They Want Us Dead, follows Sam Tombs, a seventeen-year-old running a […]
Feature: What We’re Reading for the Trans Rights Readathon We have been doing this long enough to remember when trans stories in YA were rare, fragile things. A book here, an anthology there, authors writing characters into existence with one eye on the market and one eye on survival. We […]
Author Interview: Deadly Ever After by Brittany Johnson Fairy tales promise happy endings, but Deadly Ever After by Brittany Johnson asks a darker question: what happens when love itself becomes the risk? In this sharp, emotionally layered reimagining, Amala and Kha’dasia don’t just fight fate; they fight the expectations placed […]
Feature: Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Why We Keep Coming Back When Buffy the Vampire Slayer premiered almost thirty years ago, Kelly and I were teens and young adults navigating our own versions of high school hell. We didn’t know then that we’d still be talking about it decades later, that […]