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Daryl M.

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Posts by Daryl M.

  • C.L. Polk and their book Even Though I Knew the End

    Entrevista con un autor: CL Polk

    CL Polk (ellos/ellas) escribió la serie nominada al Hugo, El Ciclo de Kingston, incluyendo la ganadora del Premio WFA, Witchmark. El Pacto de Medianoche fue finalista de Canada Reads, Nebula, Locus…

  • Author Leigh Bardugo and her latest novel, Hell Bent

    Entrevista con un autor: Leigh Bardugo

    Leigh Bardugo es una autora número 1 en ventas del New York Times y creadora del Grishaverso (ahora una serie original de Netflix), que abarca la trilogía Sombra y Hueso, la duología Seis de Cuervos…

  • Author Ryan North and his latest book, How to Take Over the World

    Entrevista con un autor: Ryan North

    Ryan North es un autor superventas del New York Times, cuyos libros incluyen Cómo inventarlo todo, Romeo y/o Julieta y Ser o no ser. Es el creador de Dinosaur Comics y el escritor ganador del Premio…

  • Author Natalie Haynes and her latest novel, Stone Blind

    Entrevista con una autora: Natalie Haynes

    Natalie Haynes es autora de siete libros, entre ellos "Mil Barcos", un éxito de ventas nacional y preseleccionado para el Premio Femenino de Ficción de 2020, y el libro de no ficción "La Jarra de…

  • Author Jacqueline Holland and her first novel, The God of Endings

    Entrevista con una autora: Jacqueline Holland

    Jacqueline Holland tiene una maestría en Bellas Artes de la Universidad de Kansas. Su trabajo ha aparecido en Hotel Amerika y la revista Big Fiction, entre otras. Vive en las Ciudades Gemelas con su…

  • Author Jane Yolen and her latest novel, The Scarlet Circus

    Entrevista con una autora: Jane Yolen

    Jane Yolen es autora de más de cuatrocientos libros, entre ficción infantil, poesía, cuentos, novelas gráficas, no ficción, fantasía y ciencia ficción. Entre sus publicaciones se incluyen Owl Moon…

  • Author Matt Ruff and his latest book, The Destroyer of Worlds: A Return to Lovecraft Country

    Entrevista con un autor: Matt Ruff

    Matt Ruff es autor de las novelas 88 Nombres, Lovecraft Country, Bad Monkeys, El Espejismo, Pon esta casa en orden, El loco en la colina y Alcantarillado, Gas y Electricidad: La trilogía de las obras…

  • Author Victor LaValle and his latest book, The Ballad of Black Tom

    Entrevista con un autor: Victor LaValle

    Victor LaValle es autor de siete obras de ficción y tres novelas gráficas. Sus libros han ganado el Premio Mundial de Fantasía, el Premio Británico de Fantasía, el Premio Bram Stoker, el Premio Dragón…

  • Author Dahlia Adler and her latest book, At Midnight: 15 Beloved Fairy Tales Reimagined

    Entrevista con una autora: Dahlia Adler

    Dahlia Adler es editora de matemáticas de día, bloguera literaria de noche y escritora en cada momento libre. Es editora de las antologías His Hideous Heart y That Way Madness Lies, y autora, más…

  • Author James Ramos and his latest book, The Wrong Kind of Weird

    Entrevista con un autor: James Ramos

    James Ramos (él/ellos) es un nativo de Minnesota no binario, sin complejos, que ahora considera a Arizona su hogar. Criado con una dieta constante de ciencia ficción, cómics y literatura clásica…


Reviews by Daryl M.

  • Cover image for Only a Monster

    Only a Monster

    • By: Len, Vanessa
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Joan believes herself to be a typical teenager. She spends her summers in London visiting her maternal grandmother, while her father visits his family in Malaysia. During this visit, she has been volunteering at Holland House, a historic home and museum in Kensington. Holland House is where she met Nick...
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    The Book Woman's Daughter

    • By: Richardson, Kim Michele
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    In 2019, Kim Michele Richardson told the story of Cussy Mary Carter and her work as a Pack Horse Librarian in The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek. Now, in 2022,  Richardson returns to tell the next chapter in Cussy Mary’s story, which actually belongs to her daughter, in The Book...
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    One last stop

    • By: McQuiston, Casey
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    A young woman on her way to her first day of classes at Brooklyn College spills coffee on herself just prior to boarding the subway. Another young woman on the train comes to her rescue with a scarf and a kind word. The next time the student boards the train...
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    The Quarter Storm

    • By: Henry, Veronica G.
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Vodou priestess Mambo Reina Dumond learned the practices and customs of Vodou as a child from her father, while her family was living in Haiti. She is inhabited by the spirit of Erzulie, which makes her a gifted practitioner of water magic. Reina operates a small business behind her home...
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    One-Shot Harry

    • By: Phillips, Gary
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    The year is 1963. Martin Luther King, Jr. is about to hold his Freedom Rally at Wrigley Field in Los Angeles; William H. Parker is Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department; John F. Kennedy is President of the United States; Pat Brown is the Governor of California; Gas is...
  • Cover image for The Fervor: A Novel

    The Fervor: A Novel

    Meiko is the Japanese wife of Jamie Briggs, a white US Air Force pilot fighting in World War II. Meiko, and her daughter Aiko, are “residents” of the Minidoka internment camp in Idaho. A few days ago, an unscheduled truck came to the camp. The residents are told to stay...
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    Mickey7

    • By: Ashton, Edward
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Mickey Barnes NEEDS to get off Midgard, the colony planet on which he has lived his entire life. Because staying on Midgard is not an option, he takes the only avenue open to him: he volunteers to be the “expendable” on Midgard’s first outgoing colony ship, the Drakkar. An “expendable”...
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    Secret Identity

    • By: Segura, Alex
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    In 1975, the comic book industry is struggling. It has survived, mostly, Frederic Wertham’s criticisms and claims regarding a causal relationship between reading comics and becoming a juvenile delinquent in Seduction of the Innocent. But there have been casualties. Readership is down. Publishers are closing. Writers and artists are left...
  • The City We Became

    The City We Became

    • By: N. K. Jemisin
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    N.K. Jemisin is a multiple award-winning, speculative fiction writer. Currently, she resides in Brooklyn, New York and, as evidenced by her novel, The City We Became, she LOVES the “Big Apple”.Every century or so, a city will “manifest”, it becomes a living thing, an entity of its own. This has...
  • Cover image for Redwood and Wildfire

    Redwood and Wildfire

    • By: Hairston, Andrea
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Redwood Phipps is an African-American girl. Aidan Wildfire Cooper is a Seminole Irish young man. The two are brought together by a hateful act of racial violence, which affects both of them for the remainder of their lives. But both are determined to keep the event from defining them. In...