Fan of The Expanse and missing it during this seemingly never-ending hiatus? Like YA books? You might want to pick up Aurora Rising, the first book in The Aurora Cycle by Jay Kristoff and Amie Kaufman. There are a lot of similarities aside from the fact that they’re both set in space. Read our before commenting. Please […]

The Sword and the Dagger by Robert Cochran has a tantalizing premise and a beautiful cover, but the story is just okay. Though I wouldn’t call this a bad book, it just didn’t grab my attention the way I was expecting it to. Read our before commenting. Please do not copy our content in whole […]

Return to ExcelsiCon in The Princess and the Fangirl. This modern-day geekified version of The Prince and the Pauper is a sequel to Ashley Poston’s Geekerella and has a similar charm and sense of whimsy. Read our before commenting. Please do not copy our content in whole to other websites. Linkbacks are encouraged.

Religion, politics, and magic are twined together in Wicked Saints, the first book in Emily A. Duncan’s Something Dark and Wicked trilogy, and it should be more interesting than it is. Read our before commenting. Please do not copy our content in whole to other websites. Linkbacks are encouraged.

On the eve of the Exposition Universelle in 19th century Paris, Séverin Montagnet-Alarie, a French-Algerian treasure hunter and hotel owner, is on the cusp of gaining back his family’s fortune. All he has to do is recover an ancient artifact sought by the Order of Babel. This is the story in The Gilded Wolves by Roshani […]

Return to the world of Faerie as Jude Duarte struggles to maintain her precarious hold on the kingdom in The Wicked King, the sequel to Holly Black’s best-selling The Cruel Prince. Read our before commenting. Please do not copy our content in whole to other websites. Linkbacks are encouraged.

In White Stag, author Kara Barbieri asks you to imagine a land where it’s always winter, and all of the goblins look like David Bowie in Labyrinth (and he wasn’t even a goblin, he was just their king). Read our before commenting. Please do not copy our content in whole to other websites. Linkbacks are […]

High school is hard enough without having to deal with the clone of your dead best friend. In The Similars by Rebecca Hanover, Emmaline Chance’s junior year at her prestigious boarding school is about to get complicated. Read our before commenting. Please do not copy our content in whole to other websites. Linkbacks are encouraged.

I really wanted to like Pride. It’s a modern retelling of Pride and Prejudice, which I will never not want to read, and an own voices novel, of which I’m trying to read more. But Ibi Zoboi’s Brooklyn-based take on the classic novel was just such a slog to get through, and there is very little to […]

Warcross introduced a sleek, semi-virtual world where an international competition of VR Capture the Flag is the setting for an intriguing mystery. Wildcard took the potential of the first book and…just…kind of…did something with it. Read our before commenting. Please do not copy our content in whole to other websites. Linkbacks are encouraged.