Blog Tour: Accelerant by T.L. Simpson Briar Stokes watches his best friends get attacked at a Pride demonstration, and he does what feels logical in that moment: he grabs a pipe, puts on a demon mask, and goes looking for the white supremacists who did it. The impulse seems to make […]
Audiobook Review: A (Dead) Thing Like Me by E.G. Young A (Dead) Thing Like Me by E.G. Young landed on my radar the best way a book can: Maria Ingrande Mora told me to join the street team. I trust Maria’s recs so I did not ask questions. This is […]
Comic Crush Saturday: Fence by C.S. Pacat, with art by Johanna the Mad Fence has been in the world since 2017. It has sold over a million copies. It has built one of the most devoted fandoms in comics. And now, nearly a decade after Nicholas Cox first showed up […]
Crush on This: The House of Gardenias by Isabel Cañas Set during a revolution in a fictional version of Mexico, The House of Gardenias follows sixteen-year-old Minerva Treviño as she tries to survive both human and supernatural horrors. Author Isabel Cañas pulled from her own experiences living in countries during periods […]
Book Recommendations: Queer YA History for Queer History Month October is LGBTQ+ History Month, and the fight to keep our history accessible has never been more visible or more urgent. Books are being pulled from school libraries. State legislatures are passing laws that erase queer and trans people from curricula. […]
Audiobook Review: Killing Sadie by Rachel Peterson We have been shouting about Rachel Peterson since before Killing Sadie was out in the world. I attended her launch event at Bookloft and we hosted an interview here on the blog, and by the time this review is live she has already […]
ARC Review: Please Enjoy Your Stay by Tara Goedjen October is for thrillers. If you need something to read while the nights get longer and the air gets colder, Please Enjoy Your Stay by Tara Goedjen is exactly the kind of book written for this season. A gothic castle in […]
Cover Reveal: The Tale of the Body Valet by Alison Ames Okay, the concept alone had me: a near-future world where you can hire someone to wear your body and handle whatever you don’t want to deal with. A body valet. They take the dress fitting. They get the tattoo. […]
The Circle Never Breaks: On Mister Magic, Childhood Horror, and the Stories That Know Us Before We Know Ourselves There is a moment in Kiersten White’s Mister Magic that I have not been able to stop thinking about since I read it: A slow understanding of why five people, thirty […]
Audiobook Review: Such a Lucky Girl by Wendy Heard Two former best friends, one who built her whole life on being Such a Lucky Girl to three million Instagram followers, one who got left behind and found a book from the 1960s connected to a cult that did not end […]