Guest contributor M. Shaw reviews Roupenian’s studies in feminist horror.
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The world of Fountains Parish is a delightfully dark steampunk fantasy, where making friends takes on every shade of meaning. Homunculi, golem, AI, human—the difference between the spark of life that comes by way of magic and the one that comes from nature might not be as big as you think.
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Laini Taylor put a restriction on this project: killing couldn’t be the solution to her characters’ conflicts. The result is a harrowing exploration of nightmares, both lived and dreamed.
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Seanan McGuire’s Wayward Children series continues with a story that asks, “What if life were fair?” It’s portal fantasy at its best: A door appears, a choice is made, you come back changed … if you come back at all.
Read more"Finding Baba Yaga": The Perfect Book for the Season of the Witch
Jane Yolen’s novel-in-verse, Finding Baba Yaga, arrives just in time for the season of the witch.
Read more"The Hazel Wood": Interrogating the European Fairy Tale
Melissa Albert’s debut novel cuts to the bone of European fairy tales to find the essence of nightmares: horrors that are both seductive and disturbing.
Read more"The Queen of Sorrow"
The final tale in the Queens of Renthia saga is here. More queens, more lands, more spirits, and answers to questions as large as the universe.
Read moreThe Wild, Raging Girl
River Tam, not using her words in Firefly.
Wild, raging girls seem to be everywhere these days, from movies like Logan to books like The Girl with All the Gifts.
Read more"The Half-Drowned King": Sailing the Viking Seas
Need an epic fix while you wait for the Game of Thrones finale? Look no further than the beauty and bluntly rendered brutality of Linnea Hartsuyker's adrenaline-fueled historical novel set in ninth-century Norway.
Read more"The Reader": Traci Chee's Stunning Debut
“Sea of Ink and Gold”—I love the visual richness evoked by the series title.
The Reader is a meta-meditation on the mystical act of reading itself. With pirates. And assassins.
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