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Daryl M.

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Posts by Daryl M.

  • Author Anthony McCarten and his latest novel, Going Zero

    Entrevista con un autor: Anthony McCarten

    Anthony McCarten es un guionista, dramaturgo, novelista y periodista nacido en Nueva Zelanda. Entre sus trabajos cinematográficos se incluyen La teoría del todo, La hora más oscura, Los dos papas…

  • Author Peter S. Beagle and his two collections of short fiction, The Essential Peter S. Beagle Volumes 1 & 2

    Entrevista con un autor: Peter S. Beagle

    Peter Soyer Beagle es el autor más vendido a nivel internacional y muy apreciado de numerosas novelas y colecciones de fantasía clásica, entre ellas El último unicornio, Tamsin, La línea entre dos…

  • Author Moses Ose Utomi and his latest novel, The Lies of the Ajungo

    Entrevista con un autor: Moses Ose Utomi

    Moses Ose Utomi es un escritor de fantasía nigeriano-estadounidense y nómada que reside actualmente en Honolulu, Hawái. Tiene una maestría en Bellas Artes en ficción por el Sarah Lawrence College y ha…

  • Author Liz Hyder and her her novel, The Gifts

    Entrevista con una autora: Liz Hyder

    Liz Hyder es escritora, directora de talleres creativos y consultora independiente de relaciones públicas para el sector artístico. Ganó el Premio The Bridge y el Premio Moniack Mhor para Escritores…

  • Author Johnny Compton and his debut novel, The Spite House

    Entrevista con un autor: Johnny Compton

    Los relatos de Johnny Compton (él/él) han aparecido en Pseudopod, Strange Horizons, The No Sleep Podcast y muchos otros medios. Es miembro de HWA y creador y presentador del podcast Healthy Fears. The…

  • The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen by KJ Charles

    Entrevista con un autor: KJ Charles

    KJ Charles trabajó veinte años como editora en una editorial británica antes de abandonar el mundo de la literatura para dedicarse por completo a la novela romántica histórica. Desde entonces, ha…

  • Author Emilia Hart and her debut novel, Weyward

    Entrevista con una autora: Emilia Hart

    Emilia Hart creció en Australia y estudió Literatura Inglesa en la universidad antes de formarse como abogada. Vive en Londres. Weyward, su ópera prima, recibió una gran distinción en el Premio…

  • C.L. Polk and their book Even Though I Knew the End

    Entrevista con un autor: CL Polk

    CL Polk (ellos/ellas) escribió la serie nominada al Hugo, El Ciclo de Kingston, incluyendo la ganadora del Premio WFA, Witchmark. El Pacto de Medianoche fue finalista de Canada Reads, Nebula, Locus…

  • Author Leigh Bardugo and her latest novel, Hell Bent

    Entrevista con un autor: Leigh Bardugo

    Leigh Bardugo es una autora número 1 en ventas del New York Times y creadora del Grishaverso (ahora una serie original de Netflix), que abarca la trilogía Sombra y Hueso, la duología Seis de Cuervos…

  • Author Ryan North and his latest book, How to Take Over the World

    Entrevista con un autor: Ryan North

    Ryan North es un autor superventas del New York Times, cuyos libros incluyen Cómo inventarlo todo, Romeo y/o Julieta y Ser o no ser. Es el creador de Dinosaur Comics y el escritor ganador del Premio…


Reviews by Daryl M.

  • Cover image for The Dead Cat Tail Assassins

    The Dead Cat Tail Assassins

    • By: Clark, P. Djèlí
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Eveen es una asesina profesional. El énfasis en esa afirmación debe recaer en "profesional". Es una asesina reanimada, sin recuerdos y al servicio de la Matrona de Asesinos que hizo posible su segunda oportunidad en la "vida". Es eficiente, discreta y dispuesta a eliminar (el término...
  • Cover image for A Short Walk Through a Wide World

    A Short Walk Through a Wide World

    • By: Westerbeke, Douglas
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Three sisters gather at what they have decided is a wishing well near their home in Paris. The year is 1885. There are so many terrible things happening in the world that they decide they each will make a wish and sacrifice something important to them by casting it into...
  • Cover image for The Twilight Garden

    The Twilight Garden

    • By: Adams, Sara Nisha
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    There are two residences on Eastbourne Road in Stoke Newington on the outskirts of London. Winston has lived in #79, with his boyfriend Lewis, for several years. Bernice, recently divorced, has just purchased #77 as a new home for herself and her young son, Sebastian. The two houses share a...
  • Cover image for How to Solve Your Own Murder

    How to Solve Your Own Murder

    • By: Perrin, Kristen
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Annie’s Great Aunt Frances has always been a presence in Annie’s life. A rather nebulous, undefined presence, but a presence none the less. Great Aunt Frances owns the house in Chelsea where Annie has grown up with her mother. Communication from Great Aunt Frances has always been sporadic at best...
  • Cover image for The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

    The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

    • By: Khan, Shubnum
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Fifteen-year-old Sana has just moved to Durban, a city on the eastern coast of South Africa, with her father. Her mother, a victim of cancer, died a few years earlier and her father believes the move to the once grand, now dilapidated, estate that is an odd type of apartment...
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    Women of Good Fortune

    Sophie Wan opens her debut novel with this bit of information:“Sheng nu – ‘leftover women’ – unmarried women over the age of twenty-seven. Later adopted by the internet community to refer to often well-educated women who had passed the appropriate age for marriage.”Wan then goes on to introduce readers to...
  • Cover image for The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

    The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

    • By: Khan, Shubnum
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.

    Fifteen-year-old Sana has just moved to Durban, a city on the eastern coast of South Africa, with her father. Her mother, a victim of cancer, died a few years earlier and her father believes the move to the once grand, now dilapidated, estate that is an odd type of apartment...

  • Cover image for The Fox Wife

    The Fox Wife

    • By: Choo, Yangsze
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    A detective is approached about discovering the identity of a young woman who is found dead and frozen outside a restaurant. A grieving mother undertakes a search to locate the man she holds responsible for her daughter’s death. As each travels across Manchuria in the early 20th century, it becomes...
  • Cover image for The Book of Doors

    The Book of Doors

    • By: Brown, Gareth
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Cassie Andrews is living a quiet life in New York City. She spends her days and evenings working in a bookshop, and when she goes home each night, more often than not, she curls up with a good book. A set of unusual circumstances in the bookstore result in Cassie...
  • Cover image for The Fragile Threads of Power

    The Fragile Threads of Power

    • By: Schwab, Victoria
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    It’s been seven years since the events at the end of V.E. Schwab’s A Conjuring of Light. In Red London, Lila and Kell have been sailing the seas as privateers on her ship, the Grey Barron (They also secretly perform tasks for Red London’s crown.). Rhy Maresh, Kell’s brother, has...