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Daryl M.

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Posts by Daryl M.

  • Author Terry Pratchett and his biography of Terry Pratchett

    Entrevista con un autor: Rob Wilkins

    Rob Wilkins trabajó con Terry Pratchett durante más de veinte años, primero como su asistente personal y luego como su representante comercial. Actualmente gestiona el patrimonio literario de…

  • Author Peter Blauner and his latest novel, Picture in the Sand

    Entrevista con un autor: Peter Blauner

    La carrera de Peter Blauner abarca varias generaciones de narradores neoyorquinos y diversos medios. Originario de Manhattan y residente en Brooklyn, comenzó como asistente del legendario periodista…

  • Author Lavie Tidhar and his latest novel, Neom

    Entrevista con un autor: Lavie Tidhar

    Lavie Tidhar (Un hombre yace soñando, Tierra impía), autora ganadora de los premios British Science Fiction, British Fantasy y World Fantasy, es una aclamada escritora de literatura, ciencia ficción…

  • Author Kris Waldherr and her latest novel, Unnatural Creatures: A Novel of the Frankenstein Women

    Entrevista con un autor: Kris Waldherr

    Entre los numerosos libros de Kris Waldherr se incluyen El Libro de las Diosas, Princesa Malvada y Reinas Condenadas. Su novela debut, La Historia Perdida de los Sueños, recibió una reseña destacada…

  • Author Kiersten White and her debut horror novel, Hide

    Entrevista con una autora: Kiersten White

    Kiersten White es la autora número uno en ventas del New York Times, ganadora del Premio Bram Stoker y aclamada por la crítica, con numerosos libros, entre ellos la trilogía "Y yo me oscurezco", la…

  • Author Sallt Thorne and her latest novel, Angelika Frankenstein Makes Her Match

    Entrevista con una autora: Sally Thorne

    Sally Thorne es la autora de "El Juego del Odio", éxito de ventas del USA Today. Pasa sus días explorando mundos ficticios de su propia creación. Vive en Canberra, Australia, con su esposo en una casa…

  • Lucky Girl: How I Became a Horror Writer A Krampus Story novel by M. Rickert

    Entrevista con un autor: M. Rickert

    Antes de obtener su maestría en Bellas Artes en el Vermont College of Fine Arts, M. Rickert trabajó como maestra de jardín de infantes, barista en una cafetería, vendedora de globos en Disneyland y…

  • Author Marion Deeds and her latest novel, Comeuppance Served Cold

    Entrevista con una autora: Marion Deeds

    Marion Deeds nació en Santa Bárbara, California, y se mudó al norte de California a los cinco años. Ama las secuoyas, el océano, los perros y los cuervos. Le fascina lo inexplicable y siente…

  • Author Gillian McAllister and her latest book, Wrong Place, Wrong Time

    Entrevista con una autora: Gillian McAllister

    Gillian McAllister lleva escribiendo desde que tiene memoria. Se graduó en Literatura Inglesa antes de ejercer como abogada. Vive en Birmingham, Inglaterra, donde ahora escribe a tiempo completo. Es…


Reviews by Daryl M.

  • Cover image for The Picture Bride

    The Picture Bride

    The year is 1917 and a seventeen-year-old girl named Willow, who lives with her widowed mother and two younger brothers in a small, rural village in southeastern Korea, is asked by a traveling matchmaker if she wants to get married. The older woman shows Willow a photo of a young...
  • Cover image for Darling Girl: A Novel of Peter Pan

    Darling Girl: A Novel of Peter Pan

    • By: Michalski, Liz
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    We all know the story of Peter Pan, the boy who refuses to grow up. J.M. Barrie wrote and published a play and two books about Peter and his adventures in the early 20th century, recounting how Peter visited the Darling children: Wendy, John, and Michael, and spirited them away...
  • Cover image for Acts of Violet

    Acts of Violet

    • By: Montimore, Margarita
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    In early 2020, Margarita Montimore published her debut novel, Oona Out of Order. It followed a woman who awakes every January 1st at a different point in her life. She lives in that year, and in that body, until December 31st, only to awaken the following morning beginning a different...
  • Cover image for Hawk Mountain

    Hawk Mountain

    • By: Habib, Conner
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    In the late afternoon, Todd sits on the beach watching 6-year-old Anthony, his son, play in the surf. A man approaches Todd, and, after a minute, he recognizes him. It is Jack, who bullied Todd relentlessly during their senior year in high school. In spite of their shared history, Jack...
  • Cover image for The Kaiju Preservation Society

    The Kaiju Preservation Society

    • By: Scalzi, John
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    In early March of 2020, Jamie Gray is unceremoniously demoted from marketing executive to “deliverator” at füdmüd, an internet startup company in New York City. As the COVID pandemic worsens, Jamie struggles to get by until a chance delivery happens to be to Tom Stevens. Tom tells Jamie that he...
  • Cover image for A Prayer for the Crown-Shy

    A Prayer for the Crown-Shy

    • By: Chambers, Becky
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    In 2021, Becky Chambers introduced readers to the moon of Panga, where, centuries ago, the civilization’s robots gained consciousness and, en masse, walked off into the surrounding wilderness and were never heard from again. Until the day a robot named Splendid Speckled Mosscap walked up to Sibling Dex, a tea...
  • Cover image for Remarkably Bright Creatures

    Remarkably Bright Creatures

    • By: Van Pelt, Shelby
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    After her husband’s death, Tova Sullivan took a job cleaning the Sowell Bay Aquarium. She works evenings after the aquarium has closed to the public, mopping the floors, clearing the trash cans, and cleaning the glass walls of the exhibition tanks until they shine. As she works her way around...
  • Cover image for The Children on the Hill

    The Children on the Hill

    • By: McMahon, Jennifer
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Monster. The word brings to mind ugly, misshapen creatures wreaking havoc wherever they go. Perhaps the most famous monster is Frankenstein’s monster from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. It’s been over 200 years since the teenaged Shelley created one of the most enduring tales of all time. And over the last two...
  • Cover image for Siren Queen

    Siren Queen

    On a whim, a young Chinese-American girl pays with an inch of her hair so that she and he sister can see Romeo and Juliet at the new nickelodeon in their neighborhood. From that moment on, she has a single desire: to be a motion picture star. Not simply an...
  • Cover image for Never Been Kissed

    Never Been Kissed

    • By: Janovsky, Timothy
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    As Wren Roland celebrates his 22nd birthday with his best friends and roommates, Mateo and Avery, he begins to lament the fact that he has never been kissed. He’s been close, but has yet to experience what his degree in film studies has convinced him will be a life-altering and...