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Daryl M.

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Posts by Daryl M.

  • Author Lamar Giles and his latest book, The Gateaway

    Interview With an Author: Lamar Giles

    Lamar Giles writes for teens and adults across multiple genres, with work appearing on numerous Best Of lists each and every year. He is a founding member of We Need Diverse Books and resides in…

  • Author Lee Geum-yi and her first novel, The Picture Bride, to be translated into English

    Interview With an Author: Lee Geum-yi

    Lee Geum-yi was born in 1962, in her grandmother's house in the small, mountainous village of Chungcheongbuk-do, Korea. She became enthralled with the charms of storytelling early on, having spent her…

  • Author Alan Moore and his latest book, Illuminations: Stories

    Interview With an Author: Alan Moore

    Alan Moore is an English writer widely regarded as the best and most influential writer in the history of comics. His seminal works included From Hell and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. He is…

  • Author Margarita Montimore and her latest book, Acts of Violet

    Interview With an Author: Margarita Montimore

    Margarita Montimore is the author of Asleep From Day, and Oona Out of Order, a USA Today bestseller and Good Morning America Book Club pick. After receiving a BFA in Creative Writing from Emerson…

  • Author James T. Bartlett and his book, the Alaskan Blonde

    Interview With an Author: James T. Bartlett

    Originally from London, James T. Bartlett has written for the Los Angeles Times, BBC, ALTA California, Hemispheres, Westways, Atlas Obscura,Crime Reads, Real Crimes and others, and is author of the…

  • Author Sunyi Dean and her debut novel, The Book Eaters

    Interview With an Author: Sunyi Dean

    Sunyi Dean is an autistic SFF writer, and mother of two. Originally born in the States and raised in Hong Kong, she now lives in Yorkshire. When not reading, running, falling over in yoga, or rolling…

  • Astrophysicist and author Neil deGrasse Tyson and latest book, Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization

    Interview With an Author: Neil deGrasse Tyson

    Neil deGrasse Tyson is an astrophysicist and the author of the #1 bestselling Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, among other books. He is the director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum…

  • Author Conner Habib and his debut novel, Hawk Mountain

    Interview With an Author: Conner Habib

    Conner Habib hosts the podcast Against Everyone With Conner Habib, which covers topics like punk rock, philosophy, pornography, and occultism. His writing has appeared in CR Fashion Book, Best Gay…

  • Novels Boyfriend Material and Husband Material by Alexis Hall

    Interview With an Author: Alexis Hall

    Alexis Hall writes books in the southeast of England, where he lives entirely on a diet of tea and Jaffa Cakes. His latest book, Husband Material, is a sequel to 2020’s Boyfriend Material, and he…

  • Author Gigi Pandian and her latest book, Under Lock & Skeleton Key

    Interview With an Author: Gigi Pandian

    Gigi Pandian is the USA Today bestselling and multiple award-winning author of the Jaya Jones Treasure Hunt mysteries, the Accidental Alchemist mysteries, and several locked room mystery short stories…


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...