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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.

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    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...
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    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...
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    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...