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Daryl M.

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Posts by Daryl M.

  • Book covers of favorite books

    Mis libros favoritos de 2024

    ¡Lecturas de temporada para todos! Como suele ser habitual, se han publicado libros maravillosos en 2024, y me emociona compartir mis favoritos. Los he ordenado alfabéticamente por título hasta la…

  • Genoveva Dimova and her 2 book covers

    Entrevista con una autora: Genoveva Dimova

    Genoveva Dimova es autora de fantasía y arqueóloga. Originaria de Bulgaria, ahora reside en Escocia con su pareja y un pequeño ejército de plantas de interior. Cree en escribir sobre lo que se conoce…

  • Michelle Chouinard and her book

    Entrevista con una autora: Michelle Chouinard

    Michelle Chouinard ha escrito ocho novelas de misterio superventas de USA Today y Publishers Weekly bajo un nombre diferente. Tiene un doctorado en psicología del desarrollo por la Universidad de…

  • Author Alex Segura and his book Alter Ego

    Entrevista con un autor: Alex Segura

    Alex Segura es el autor superventas y galardonado de Identidad Secreta, ganador del Premio del Libro de Los Angeles Times en la categoría de Misterio/Suspense, además de ser elegido por el Editor del…

  • Author Marjorie McCown and her latest novel, Star Struck

    Entrevista con una autora: Marjorie McCown

    Marjorie McCown ha dedicado toda su vida profesional al mundo de la narración, aunque comenzó en el ámbito visual. Pasó más de veinticinco años en Hollywood trabajando como miembro clave de los…

  • Author Emily C. Hughes and her first book, Horror For Weenies: Everything You Need to Know About the Films You're Too Scared to Watch

    Entrevista con una autora: Emily C. Hughes

    Emily C. Hughes (ella) quiere asustarte. Anteriormente editora de Unbound Worlds y TorNightfire.com, escribe sobre terror y selecciona una lista de los nuevos libros de terror del año. Puedes…

  • Author Tim Major and his latest novel, Jekyll & Hyde: Consulting Detectives

    Entrevista con un autor: Tim Major

    Tim Major es escritor y editor independiente de York, Reino Unido. Entre sus libros se incluyen Snakeskins, Hope Island, tres novelas de Sherlock Holmes, la colección de relatos "And the House Lights…

  • Author Joe R. Lansdale and his latest short story collection, In the Mad Mountains

    Entrevista con un autor: Joe R. Lansdale

    El autor de éxito internacional Joe R. Lansdale ha recibido los premios Edgar, Raymond Chandler, Bram Stoker, British Fantasy e Inkpot. Su obra abarca misterio, western, terror, thrillers, pulp…

  • Author Tod Goldberg and his latest anthology, Eight Very Bad Nights

    Entrevista con un autor: Tod Goldberg

    Tod Goldberg es el autor más vendido del New York Times con más de una docena de libros, incluyendo la galardonada trilogía Gangsterland y Living Dead Girl, finalista del Premio del Libro de Los…

  • Author M. L. Rio and her first novella, Graveyard Shift

    Entrevista con un autor: ML Rio

    ML Rio tiene una maestría en estudios shakespearianos del King's College de Londres y el Shakespeare's Globe, y un doctorado en inglés de la Universidad de Maryland, College Park. Su primera novela,…


Reviews by Daryl M.

  • Cover image for A Master of Djinn

    A Master of Djinn

    • By: Clark, P. Djèli
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    In Cairo in the 1870’s, an inventor and investigator of mysticism named al-Jahiz made a literal breakthrough unlike any other. He pierced the boundaries between our world and other worlds, allowing magic to bleed into ours. In the process, al-Jahiz was lost to another dimension before the rupture between worlds...
  • Cover image for The Dictionary of Lost Words

    The Dictionary of Lost Words

    • By: Williams, Pip
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    According to their website, the Oxford English Dictionary “is widely regarded as the accepted authority on the English language. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 words— past and present—from across the English-speaking world.” Serially published in portions, or fascicles, the first fascicle, covering “A to...
  • Cover image for Marion Lane and the Midnight Murder

    Marion Lane and the Midnight Murder

    • By: Willberg, T. A.
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Imagine the following:  A chilling murder, a secret detective agency with offices located in a myriad of tunnels located beneath London, and a young apprentice determined to find the killer in order to clear one of her closest friends of the murder. In her debut novel, which is the beginning...
  • Cover image for The Narrowboat Summer

    The Narrowboat Summer

    • By: Youngson, Anne
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Eve has spent the last 30 years working for an engineering/manufacturing company managing various projects and climbing the corporate ladder. Suddenly, she has been “released” from her position. She is a corporate scapegoat for systemic problems within her company and, as the only woman at her management level, the seemingly...
  • Cover image for Good Neighbors: A Novel

    Good Neighbors: A Novel

    • By: Langan, Sarah
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    The first season of The Twilight Zone in 1960 included an episode written by show creator Rod Serling entitled “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street.” Serling presented a block of homes, filled with “typical” American families, on a summer evening. There is a bright flash of light, whose origin...
  • Cover image for N*gga Theory: Race, Language, Unequal Justice, and the Law

    N*gga Theory: Race, Language, Unequal Justice, and the Law

    • By: Armour, Jody David
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Jody Armour is the Roy P. Crocker Professor of Law at the University of Southern California. He studies issues of race and legal decision-making as well as torts and tort reform movements. He also studies and teaches on the intersections of language, the law and ethics. His latest book directly...
  • Cover image for The Cabinets of Barnaby Mayne

    The Cabinets of Barnaby Mayne

    The year is 1704 and Lady Cecily Kay has returned to London from her husband’s posting as a consul in Smyrna. Upon learning of her imminent return to the British Isles, Cecily sent a letter to Sir Barnaby Mayne, a renowned collector in London with one of the most expansive...
  • Cover image for Hella

    Hella

    • By: Gerrold, David, 1944-
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    David Gerrold is speculative fiction royalty. His career spans six decades, over which he has won the Hugo and the Nebula awards. He has written more than 50 novels, worked on numerous television series and created cultural touchstones like tribbles (from Star Trek) and the Sleestak (from The Land of...
  • Cover image for The Lost Book of Adana Moreau

    The Lost Book of Adana Moreau

    • By: Zapata, Michael
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    A pirate, a refugee, two pre-teen boys in love with speculative fiction stories, and two adult men who are friends and are each searching for what seems to be missing in their lives. Over the course of nearly a century, these disparate individuals will orbit the missing manuscript of a...