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Daryl M.

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Posts by Daryl M.

  • Author Alma Katsu and her latest novels, The Fervor

    Entrevista con una autora: Alma Katsu

    Alma Katsu es la galardonada autora de seis novelas, las más recientes: Viuda Roja, Lo Profundo y El Hambre. Se graduó del programa de maestría en escritura de la Universidad Johns Hopkins y obtuvo su…

  • Author Gary Philips and his latest novel, One-Shot Harry

    Entrevista con un autor: Gary Phillips

    Hijo de un mecánico y una bibliotecaria, Gary Philips ha publicado diversas novelas, cómics, novelas cortas y relatos cortos, ha trabajado en televisión y ha editado o coeditado varias antologías…

  • Author Peter Swanson and his latest novel, Nine Lives

    Entrevista con un autor: Peter Swanson

    Peter Swanson es el autor bestseller del New York Times de ocho novelas, entre las que se incluyen The Kind Worth Killing, ganadora del Premio del Libro de la Sociedad de Nueva Inglaterra y finalista…

  • Author Kate Moore and her first novel, Only A Monster

    Entrevista con una autora: Vanessa Len

    Vanessa Len es una autora australiana de ascendencia chino-malaya y maltesa. Editora educativa, ha trabajado en diversos ámbitos, desde programas de aprendizaje de idiomas hasta recursos STEM y…

  • Author Edward Ashton and his latest novel, Mickey7

    Entrevista con un autor: Edward Ashton

    Edward Ashton es autor de las novelas Tres días de abril y El fin de lo ordinario, así como de relatos cortos que han aparecido en publicaciones que van desde el boletín de una empresa italiana de…

  • Author Sequoia Nagamatsu and his debut novel, How High We Go in the Dark

    Entrevista con un autor: Sequoia Nagamatsu

    Sequoia Nagamatsu es un escritor japonés-estadounidense y editor jefe de Psychopomp Magazine, una revista trimestral en línea dedicada a la prosa innovadora. Originario de Hawái y del área de la Bahía…

  • Author Alex Segura and his latest novel, Secret Identity

    Entrevista con un autor: Alex Segura

    Alex Segura es el autor de Star Wars Poe Dameron: Caída Libre y la aclamada serie de misterio de Pete Fernández. También ha escrito varios cómics, entre los que destacan la novela negra de superhéroes…

  • Author Freya Marske and her debut novel, A Marvellous Light

    Entrevista con una autora: Freya Marske

    Freya Marske es una de las copresentadoras de Be the Serpent, un podcast nominado al Premio Hugo sobre ciencia ficción y fantasía, fandom y tropos literarios. Su obra se ha vendido a Analog y ha sido…

  • Author Andrea Hairston and her latest novel, Redwood and Wildfire

    Entrevista con una autora: Andrea Hairston

    Andrea Hairston es novelista, ensayista, dramaturga y directora artística de Chrysalis Theatre. Es autora de Mindscape, preseleccionado para los premios Phillip K. Dick y de otros premios, y ganador…

  • Journalist and editor, Eliza Reid and her first book, Secrets of the Sprakkar

    Entrevista con una autora: Eliza Reid

    Eliza Reid es periodista, editora y cofundadora del Retiro Anual de Escritores de Islandia. Eliza creció en una granja de recreo cerca de Ottawa, Canadá, y se mudó a Islandia en 2003, cinco años…


Reviews by Daryl M.

  • Cover image for Star Struck

    Star Struck

    • By: McCown, Marjorie
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Cuando los lectores dejaron a Joey Jessup al final de Final Cut de Marjorie McCown, ella había descubierto la identidad del asesino que había matado a la subdirectora Courtney Lisle en el set de una película de superhéroes de gran presupuesto. Había sobrevivido a un intento de asesinato cuando el asesino había...
  • 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...