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Daryl M.

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Posts by Daryl M.

  • Author Alma Katsu and her latest novels, The Fervor

    Entrevista con una autora: Alma Katsu

    Alma Katsu es la galardonada autora de seis novelas, las más recientes: Viuda Roja, Lo Profundo y El Hambre. Se graduó del programa de maestría en escritura de la Universidad Johns Hopkins y obtuvo su…

  • Author Gary Philips and his latest novel, One-Shot Harry

    Entrevista con un autor: Gary Phillips

    Hijo de un mecánico y una bibliotecaria, Gary Philips ha publicado diversas novelas, cómics, novelas cortas y relatos cortos, ha trabajado en televisión y ha editado o coeditado varias antologías…

  • Author Peter Swanson and his latest novel, Nine Lives

    Entrevista con un autor: Peter Swanson

    Peter Swanson es el autor bestseller del New York Times de ocho novelas, entre las que se incluyen The Kind Worth Killing, ganadora del Premio del Libro de la Sociedad de Nueva Inglaterra y finalista…

  • Author Kate Moore and her first novel, Only A Monster

    Entrevista con una autora: Vanessa Len

    Vanessa Len es una autora australiana de ascendencia chino-malaya y maltesa. Editora educativa, ha trabajado en diversos ámbitos, desde programas de aprendizaje de idiomas hasta recursos STEM y…

  • Author Edward Ashton and his latest novel, Mickey7

    Entrevista con un autor: Edward Ashton

    Edward Ashton es autor de las novelas Tres días de abril y El fin de lo ordinario, así como de relatos cortos que han aparecido en publicaciones que van desde el boletín de una empresa italiana de…

  • Author Sequoia Nagamatsu and his debut novel, How High We Go in the Dark

    Entrevista con un autor: Sequoia Nagamatsu

    Sequoia Nagamatsu es un escritor japonés-estadounidense y editor jefe de Psychopomp Magazine, una revista trimestral en línea dedicada a la prosa innovadora. Originario de Hawái y del área de la Bahía…

  • Author Alex Segura and his latest novel, Secret Identity

    Entrevista con un autor: Alex Segura

    Alex Segura es el autor de Star Wars Poe Dameron: Caída Libre y la aclamada serie de misterio de Pete Fernández. También ha escrito varios cómics, entre los que destacan la novela negra de superhéroes…

  • Author Freya Marske and her debut novel, A Marvellous Light

    Entrevista con una autora: Freya Marske

    Freya Marske es una de las copresentadoras de Be the Serpent, un podcast nominado al Premio Hugo sobre ciencia ficción y fantasía, fandom y tropos literarios. Su obra se ha vendido a Analog y ha sido…

  • Author Andrea Hairston and her latest novel, Redwood and Wildfire

    Entrevista con una autora: Andrea Hairston

    Andrea Hairston es novelista, ensayista, dramaturga y directora artística de Chrysalis Theatre. Es autora de Mindscape, preseleccionado para los premios Phillip K. Dick y de otros premios, y ganador…

  • Journalist and editor, Eliza Reid and her first book, Secrets of the Sprakkar

    Entrevista con una autora: Eliza Reid

    Eliza Reid es periodista, editora y cofundadora del Retiro Anual de Escritores de Islandia. Eliza creció en una granja de recreo cerca de Ottawa, Canadá, y se mudó a Islandia en 2003, cinco años…


Reviews by Daryl M.

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    Hell Bent

    • By: Bardugo, Leigh
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    At the end of Ninth House, Galaxy “Alex” Stern solved the mystery of who killed Tara Hutchins and why, uncovering a conspiracy that involved some of the highest offices of Yale University and several of their “secret societies.” At the end of the novel, Darlington, Alex’s advisor in Lethe, the “ninth...
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    The Motion Picture Teller

    • By: Cotterill, Colin
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Supot Yongjaiyut knows he is not living his best life. The year is 1996 and Supot lives in Bangkok. During the day, he works for the Royal Thai Mail Service, a job he loathes and for which he knows he has no aptitude. When he’s not at work, he spends...
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    Weyward: A Novel

    • By: Hart, Emilia
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    “The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.”  From: On Lies, Secrets, and Silence by Adrienne RichAltha is a 21-year-old woman who, in 1619, is accused of, and tried for, witchcraft in her small English village. She is a...
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    Stone Blind

    • By: Haynes, Natalie
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    "I only see them for an instant. Then they're gone. But it's enough. Enough to know that the hero isn't the one who's kind or brave or loyal. Sometimes -- not always, but sometimes -- he is monstrous. And the monster? Who is she? She is what happens when someone...
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    The Getaway

    • By: Giles, Lamar
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Karloff Country is a marvel. Modeled on Walt Disney World in Florida, Karloff Country is a slightly smaller theme park/resort complex with a similar number of theme parks as Walt Disney World, but also includes: planned communities for all of its employees, a power plant, vertical farms to provide the...
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    Paperback Jack

    • By: Estleman, Loren D.
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    The year is 1946. WWII has ended and Jacob Heppleman is one of the many veterans returning home from the European conflict. For Jacob, home is New York City. Before the war, he wrote detective, western, and war stories for the pulp magazines. He even published a novel that was...
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    Neom

    • By: Tidhar, Lavie
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    A sprawling metropolis on the edge of the Red Sea that is simultaneously a playground of the wealthy and a struggle for the poor. A woman working multiple jobs to survive because she isn’t rich in a place that isn’t kind to someone without money. A young boy, alone in...
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    Gallant

    • By: Schwab, Victoria
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Olivia Prior has lived at Merilance since she was two years old. While Merilance calls itself a school, the truth is that it is closer to an asylum, a prison. It is a place where girls and young women who are not wanted are sent when they have nowhere else...
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    Wrong Place, Wrong Time

    • By: McAllister, Gillian
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    It is a given that, in most mystery novels, someone dies. The death occurs either before, or shortly after, the novel begins. The bulk of the narrative will explore how or why someone died. In her new novel, Wrong Place, Wrong Time, Gillian McAllister finds a new way to approach...