Review: Star Wars Outlaws: Low Red Moon by Mike Chen Mike Chen has this talent for making massive sci-fi concepts feel almost unfairly intimate. He can take a universe filled with war droids and crime syndicates and make the whole thing feel painfully human. With Star Wars Outlaws: Low Red […]
Book Recommendations: The Cost of the Bargain Two books landing this April from Page Street YA are doing something that goes past their gorgeous covers and their queer romances, though they have all of those things. The Labyrinth of Waking Dreams by Michelle Kulwicki releases April 21st and The Redwood […]
Cover Crush: The Verdant Cage by Jess Lourey The Verdant Cage follows Rose Allgood, a seventeen-year-old apothecary who has spent her whole life inside a walled community that everyone calls home and no one questions. Until her mother is murdered and her brother is the one who gets blamed for […]
Feature: TransRightsReadAThon: We Read. Now What? The Trans Rights Readathon runs through Trans Day of Visibility, and we are coming out the other side of it with full reading logs, a lot of feelings, and a longer TBR than we started with. We have been doing this long enough to […]
Feature: Fear Street, Then and Now: How The Prom Queen Found Its Way Back When a glossy new edition of Fear Street: The Prom Queen showed up from Simon & Schuster (TY!), I was transported right back to my teen years (ahem, that’s in the late 1900s for folks who […]
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 […]