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Daryl M.

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Posts by Daryl M.

  • Author Lavie Tidhar and his latest novel, Neom

    Entrevista con un autor: Lavie Tidhar

    Lavie Tidhar (Un hombre yace soñando, Tierra impía), autora ganadora de los premios British Science Fiction, British Fantasy y World Fantasy, es una aclamada escritora de literatura, ciencia ficción…

  • Author Kris Waldherr and her latest novel, Unnatural Creatures: A Novel of the Frankenstein Women

    Entrevista con un autor: Kris Waldherr

    Entre los numerosos libros de Kris Waldherr se incluyen El Libro de las Diosas, Princesa Malvada y Reinas Condenadas. Su novela debut, La Historia Perdida de los Sueños, recibió una reseña destacada…

  • Author Kiersten White and her debut horror novel, Hide

    Entrevista con una autora: Kiersten White

    Kiersten White es la autora número uno en ventas del New York Times, ganadora del Premio Bram Stoker y aclamada por la crítica, con numerosos libros, entre ellos la trilogía "Y yo me oscurezco", la…

  • Author Sallt Thorne and her latest novel, Angelika Frankenstein Makes Her Match

    Entrevista con una autora: Sally Thorne

    Sally Thorne es la autora de "El Juego del Odio", éxito de ventas del USA Today. Pasa sus días explorando mundos ficticios de su propia creación. Vive en Canberra, Australia, con su esposo en una casa…

  • Lucky Girl: How I Became a Horror Writer A Krampus Story novel by M. Rickert

    Entrevista con un autor: M. Rickert

    Antes de obtener su maestría en Bellas Artes en el Vermont College of Fine Arts, M. Rickert trabajó como maestra de jardín de infantes, barista en una cafetería, vendedora de globos en Disneyland y…

  • Author Marion Deeds and her latest novel, Comeuppance Served Cold

    Entrevista con una autora: Marion Deeds

    Marion Deeds nació en Santa Bárbara, California, y se mudó al norte de California a los cinco años. Ama las secuoyas, el océano, los perros y los cuervos. Le fascina lo inexplicable y siente…

  • Author Gillian McAllister and her latest book, Wrong Place, Wrong Time

    Entrevista con una autora: Gillian McAllister

    Gillian McAllister lleva escribiendo desde que tiene memoria. Se graduó en Literatura Inglesa antes de ejercer como abogada. Vive en Birmingham, Inglaterra, donde ahora escribe a tiempo completo. Es…

  • Author Lamar Giles and his latest book, The Gateaway

    Entrevista con un autor: Lamar Giles

    Lamar Giles escribe para adolescentes y adultos en diversos géneros, y su obra aparece en numerosas listas de los mejores cada año. Es miembro fundador de We Need Diverse Books y reside en Virginia…

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

    Entrevista con un autor: Lee Geum-yi

    Lee Geum-yi nació en 1962 en casa de su abuela, en el pequeño pueblo montañoso de Chungcheongbuk-do, Corea. Desde muy joven, se sintió cautivada por el encanto de la narración, tras haber pasado su…


Reviews by Daryl M.

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    Magic for Liars: A Novel

    • By: Gailey, Sarah
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    When Sylvia Capley, the Health instructor at Osthorne Academy for Young Mages, is found in the school library bisected from head to toe, cleanly down the middle, the National Mage Investigative Service (NMIS) concludes that her death was an accident, a spell gone wrong. The Headmaster of the school doesn’t...
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    The Lost History of Dreams: A Novel

    • By: Waldherr, Kris
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    When famous, and some would claim infamous, poet Hugh de Bonne dies unexpectedly, his last remaining family relations are called upon to enact his final request. De Bonne wishes to be buried on the moors near Shropshire, in a chapel of stained glass he had built 16 years earlier as...
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    Your Favorite Band Cannot Save You

    • By: Moore, Scotto
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    It’s happened to all of us. You hear a song and it instantly raises your spirits. Or, you hear a different song and it instantly makes you feel melancholy. Some music makes you want to move, while other music makes you want to relax and be still. Something reminds you...
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    Middlegame

    • By: McGuire, Seanan
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Roger Middleton is a rather typical seven-year-old boy. He lives with his adopted parents in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He seems to be exceptionally gifted when it comes to grammar, spelling, anything to do with languages, really. But he struggles with even the most basic levels of mathematics.Dodger Cheswich is not a...
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    Radicalized

    • By: Doctorow, Cory
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Speculative Fiction has a long history of using the tropes of the genre to comment on our world. Ursula K. Le Guin used The Left Hand of Darkness to examine cultural gender constructs. Using the original Star Trek television series, show creator Gene Roddenberry commented on issues like race relations...
  • Cover image for Snow White Learns Witchcraft: Stories and Poems

    Snow White Learns Witchcraft: Stories and Poems

    • By: Goss, Theodora
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    "Fairy tales are another kind of Bible, for those who know how to read them.” 'Red as Blood and White as Bone' in Snow White Learns Witchcraft by Theodora GossTheodora Goss is an award winning-author, a professor of literature and writing at both Boston University and the Stonecoast MFA program. Her debut...
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    The Sentence is Death

    • By: Horowitz, Anthony
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    In 2018, readers discovered the first book in Anthony Horowitz’s new mystery series: The Word is Murder. In it, a wealthy woman enters a London funeral parlor in the morning to make her final arrangements. She is found in her home, murdered, six hours later. When disgraced Detective Inspector Daniel...
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    The Night Tiger

    • By: Choo, Yangsze
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Ji Lin is a young woman who is working as an apprentice dressmaker by day and secretly working as a “dance instructor” at a dance-hall in the evenings to repay a family debt. Ren is eleven, but tells everyone that he is thirteen. He has lost his entire family, including...
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    Holy Lands: A Novel

    • By: Sthers, Amanda, 1978- author, translator.
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Harry Rosenmerck, a successful Jewish Cardiologist, just walked away. He walked away from his family, his career, his life, and everything he knew and loved to start a pig farm in Israel. This sounds like the set-up for a potentially insensitive joke, but it isn’t. Harry is deadly serious, as...