Hello, readers! Today I’d like to introduce you to a middle grade girl whose story I cannot wait to read! Leonora is the star of A Dash of Trouble by Anna Meriano, which is coming out in January from Walden Pond Press! Her story will be the first in the “Love Sugar Magic” series, which sounds almost as delightful…
The year is 1818, the city is London, and 16-year-old Annis Whitworth has just learned that her father is dead and all his money is missing. And so, of course, she decides to become a spy in Murder, Magic and What We Wore. Annis always suspected that her father was himself a spy, and following in…
Meet Dina Demille, a nice Texas gal who runs a seemingly ordinary, quaint B and B. But Dina’s inn is a magic, thinking entity; her fluffy Shih-tzu, Beast really is a beast; and her guests are the kind that no one on earth is supposed to know about: guests like a dethroned galactic tyrant with…
Sierra Santiago was looking forward to a fun summer of making art, hanging out with her friends, and skating around Brooklyn. But then a weird zombie guy crashes the first party of the season. Sierra’s near-comatose abuelo begins to say “No importa” over and over. And when the graffiti murals in Bed-Stuy start to weep….…
When Tea accidentally resurrects her brother from the dead, she learns she is different from the other witches in her family. Her gift for necromancy means that she’s a bone witch, a title that makes her feared and ostracized by her community. But Tea finds solace and guidance with an older, wiser bone witch, who takes Tea…
Things We Lost in the Fire is an arresting collection of short stories, reminiscent of Shirley Jackson and Julio Cortazar, by an exciting new international talent. Macabre, disturbing and exhilarating, Things We Lost in the Fire is a collection of twelve short stories that use fear and horror to explore multiple dimensions of life in…
In A Darker Shade of Magic, Kell is one of the last travelers–magicians with a rare, coveted ability to travel between parallel universes connected by one magical city. There’s Grey London, dirty and boring, without any magic, and with one mad King George III. Red London, where life and magic are revered – and where…
Katsa has been able to kill a man with her bare hands since she was eight—she’s a Graceling, one of the rare people in her land born with an extreme skill. As niece of the king, she should be able to live a life of privilege, but Graced as she is with killing, she is…
I received The Secret Language of Stones by M.J. Rose as an e-galley from Netgalley and the publisher, Atria Books, in exchange for an honest review of this book. As World War I rages and the Romanov dynasty reaches its sudden, brutal end, a young jewelry maker discovers love, passion, and her own healing powers…
This review of Lair of Dreams may contain spoilers for The Diviners! Please note that this is the second book in the Diviners series by Libba Bray. If you have not read The Diviners, please stop reading this review. Go read The Diviners instead. It’s amazing and you will love it if you love magic and 1920’s slang.…