Human is the second book in Karen Diem’s Arca series about cancer-survivor heroes with multiple superhuman abilities. The first book, Super, was an action-adventure origin story that I reviewed (Super). As I picked up the second book in the series, I wondered where the author might go next. Would it […]
Recently, a friend told me she wasn’t going to read my novel because she didn’t read fairy tale retellings. I had no response. After that encounter, I thought about her statement for a long time. I’ve never thought of my books as retellings. I often pitch them as a fairytale […]
You may notice that the “k” is flipped around on “Havok” on the cover of the anthology Rebirth: Havok Season One. I can’t make the “k” flip around without drawing it, so you’ll have to put up with my misspelling of the title. Rebirth is a compilation of flash fiction […]
The Odin Inheritance by Victoria L. Scott is a steampunk, urban fantasy set in Cambridge, England and centered on a young lady named Ariana Trevelyan. She’s a college student, a tinkerer, and an expert dart-thrower. A game of darts opens the book—a skill Ariana has recently acquired. While she’s worked […]
Lisa Caskey’s The Farmed has been on my TBR list for a while so I was excited to finally read it. A YA dystopian novel set both ten years and approximately three generations in the future, The Farmed tells the story of Winnifred (Winnie) Kimball, an eighteen-year-old living in San […]
Professor Moriarty, Medusa, Voldemort, Big Brother, The Dust Witch, Uriah Heep, Bryce Walker, Montresor, Randall Flagg, U. N. Owen. Different characters, different genres, yet they have one thing in common. Villainy. Villains. In books, the characters you love to hate. Sometimes the antagonist, sometimes the protagonist. Some bent on world […]
What would happen if the afterlife consisted of an in-between world where the deceased went to a nine-to-five job to help the living? And what if one of these jobs assisted people in finding their perfect match? This is the premise of Eros, Inc., a short novel / novella by […]
Projection, a science-fiction novel by Tabatha Shipley, has an interesting premise. What if, by embedded technology, you could project your thoughts on a screen? And what if that same technology glitched and you started showing private memories to the public? This is the dilemma of sixteen-year-old Emma Johnson. An average […]
Blaze, a delightful new novel by Hope Bolinger, tells the story of an academic year in the lives of four students at a new academy after the school they love burns down. Danny, Michelle, Rayah, and Hannah all must find a way to adjust as they are accepted to King’s […]
