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Daryl M.

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Posts by Daryl M.

  • Clay McLeod Chapman and his latest novel, The Remaking

    Entrevista con un autor: Clay McLeod Chapman

    Clay McLeod Chapman es el creador de la sesión narrativa The Pumpkin Pie Show y autor de Rest Area, Nothing Untoward y la trilogía Tribe. En el mundo del cómic, su obra incluye Lazaretto, Iron Fist…

  • Kelli Estes and her latest novel, Today We Go Home

    Entrevista con una autora: Kelli Estes

    Kelli Estes vivió en los desiertos del este del estado de Washington y Arizona antes de establecerse en la zona de Seattle, que ama tanto que planea vivir para siempre cerca del agua. Le apasionan las…

  • Scott Thomas and his latest novel, Violet

    Entrevista con un autor: Scott Thomas

    La novela debut de Scott Thomas, Kill Creek, es una clásica "casa embrujada" adaptada al siglo XXI. También es una carta de amor al género de terror, a sus autores y lectores. Ahora Thomas regresa con…

  • Shaun Hamill and his first novel, A Cosmology of Monsters

    Entrevista con un autor: Shaun Hamill

    Shaun Hamill es originario de Arlington, Texas. Tiene una maestría en Bellas Artes del Taller de Escritores de Iowa y vive en los oscuros bosques de Alabama con su esposa, sus suegros y su perro. "Una…

  • Jennifer Giesbrecht and her first book, The Monster of Elendhaven

    Entrevista con una autora: Jennifer Giesbrecht

    Jennifer Giesbrecht es originaria de Halifax, Nueva Escocia, donde se licenció en Historia, se formó como artista callejera profesional y desarrolló un profundo y reverente respeto por el océano…

  • Rhys Thomas and his new novel, The Secret Life of Sam Holloway

    Entrevista con un autor: Rhys Thomas

    Rhys Thomas es el autor de El Club del Suicidio y El Tercer Día. Vive en Cardiff, Gales, con su pareja y tres gatos. Su nueva novela es La Vida Secreta de Sam Holloway y recientemente aceptó hablar…

  • Sarah David-Goff and her debut novel, Last Ones Left Alive

    Entrevista con una autora: Sarah Davis Goff

    Sarah Davis-Goff nació y vive en Dublín. Sus escritos se han publicado en el Irish Times, The Guardian y LitHub. Last Ones Left Alive es su primera novela y recientemente aceptó hablar sobre ella con…

  • Dahlia Adler and her book His Hideous Heart

    Entrevista con una autora: Dahlia Adler

    Dahlia Adler es editora asociada de matemáticas de día, bloguera de B&N Teens, LGBTQ Reads y Frolic by night, y autora de novelas para adultos jóvenes y adultos jóvenes en cada momento libre. Entre…

  • Alix E. Harrow and her first novel The Ten Thousand Doors of January

    Entrevista con una autora: Alix E. Harrow

    Alix E. Harrow es historiadora a tiempo parcial con un trabajo de oficina a tiempo completo, muchas opiniones y multas bibliotecarias excesivas. Sus relatos cortos han aparecido en Shimmer, Strange…


Reviews by Daryl M.

  • Cover image for Star Struck

    Star Struck

    • By: McCown, Marjorie
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Cuando los lectores dejaron a Joey Jessup al final de Final Cut de Marjorie McCown, ella había descubierto la identidad del asesino que había matado a la subdirectora Courtney Lisle en el set de una película de superhéroes de gran presupuesto. Había sobrevivido a un intento de asesinato cuando el asesino había...
  • Cover image for The Dead Cat Tail Assassins

    The Dead Cat Tail Assassins

    • By: Clark, P. Djèlí
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Eveen es una asesina profesional. El énfasis en esa afirmación debe recaer en "profesional". Es una asesina reanimada, sin recuerdos y al servicio de la Matrona de Asesinos que hizo posible su segunda oportunidad en la "vida". Es eficiente, discreta y dispuesta a eliminar (el término...
  • Cover image for A Short Walk Through a Wide World

    A Short Walk Through a Wide World

    • By: Westerbeke, Douglas
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Three sisters gather at what they have decided is a wishing well near their home in Paris. The year is 1885. There are so many terrible things happening in the world that they decide they each will make a wish and sacrifice something important to them by casting it into...
  • Cover image for The Twilight Garden

    The Twilight Garden

    • By: Adams, Sara Nisha
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    There are two residences on Eastbourne Road in Stoke Newington on the outskirts of London. Winston has lived in #79, with his boyfriend Lewis, for several years. Bernice, recently divorced, has just purchased #77 as a new home for herself and her young son, Sebastian. The two houses share a...
  • Cover image for How to Solve Your Own Murder

    How to Solve Your Own Murder

    • By: Perrin, Kristen
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Annie’s Great Aunt Frances has always been a presence in Annie’s life. A rather nebulous, undefined presence, but a presence none the less. Great Aunt Frances owns the house in Chelsea where Annie has grown up with her mother. Communication from Great Aunt Frances has always been sporadic at best...
  • Cover image for The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

    The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

    • By: Khan, Shubnum
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Fifteen-year-old Sana has just moved to Durban, a city on the eastern coast of South Africa, with her father. Her mother, a victim of cancer, died a few years earlier and her father believes the move to the once grand, now dilapidated, estate that is an odd type of apartment...
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    Women of Good Fortune

    Sophie Wan opens her debut novel with this bit of information:“Sheng nu – ‘leftover women’ – unmarried women over the age of twenty-seven. Later adopted by the internet community to refer to often well-educated women who had passed the appropriate age for marriage.”Wan then goes on to introduce readers to...
  • Cover image for The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

    The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

    • By: Khan, Shubnum
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.

    Fifteen-year-old Sana has just moved to Durban, a city on the eastern coast of South Africa, with her father. Her mother, a victim of cancer, died a few years earlier and her father believes the move to the once grand, now dilapidated, estate that is an odd type of apartment...

  • Cover image for The Fox Wife

    The Fox Wife

    • By: Choo, Yangsze
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    A detective is approached about discovering the identity of a young woman who is found dead and frozen outside a restaurant. A grieving mother undertakes a search to locate the man she holds responsible for her daughter’s death. As each travels across Manchuria in the early 20th century, it becomes...
  • Cover image for The Book of Doors

    The Book of Doors

    • By: Brown, Gareth
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Cassie Andrews is living a quiet life in New York City. She spends her days and evenings working in a bookshop, and when she goes home each night, more often than not, she curls up with a good book. A set of unusual circumstances in the bookstore result in Cassie...