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 […]
Blog Tour & Book Look: Time-Tripping Over You by Brennon Lane Time-Tripping Over You is a queer time travel debut written by Black, queer, trans author Brennon Lane, who has said he hopes his books offer the diverse representation he always wanted. The story follows Silas, a Black and trans […]
Author Interview: Heiress of Nowhere by Stacey Lee Stacey Lee has always written heroines who stand at the fault line between who they’re expected to be and who they dare to become, and Heiress of Nowhere might be her most haunting exploration of that tension yet. Set on an Orcas […]
Book Recommendation: The Kiss Bet by Farrah Penn Most of us remember the specific, shaky brand of panic that comes with a first kiss. It is that universal rite of passage that stays vivid because it is usually some combination of hopeful, messy, and deeply awkward. This is the exact […]
Blog Tour & Book Look: I Was A Teenage Death God by MJ Beasi Some teens feel like they’re too much. Too angry.Too sensitive.Too queer.Too loud.Too strange. In I Was a Teenage Death God, that “too much” becomes something cosmic. This novel follows a teen who isn’t just overwhelmed by grief, […]
Author Interview: Maysoon Zayid, The Girl Who Can Can by Seema Yasmin In her writing, Seema Yasmin has a gift for bringing extraordinary real life stories to young readers in a way that feels honest, hopeful, and deeply human. In Maysoon Zayid, The Girl Who Can Can, Seema introduces kids […]
Movie Musings: This is Not a Test by Courtney Summers This Is Not a Test is the rare adaptation that understands the assignment so completely it almost feels like the book found a new language instead of being translated. Rather than sanding down Courtney Summers’ sharp edges, the film leans […]