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Daryl M.

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Posts by Daryl M.

  • Cynthia Hand and her latest novel, The How and The Why

    Entrevista con una autora: Cynthia Hand

    Cynthia Hand es autora de varios libros para adolescentes, éxitos de ventas del New York Times, incluyendo la trilogía Unearthly, The Afterlife of Holly Chase, The Last Time We Say Goodbye y My Lady…

  • Peter Swanson and his latest book, Eight Perfect Murders

    Entrevista con un autor: Peter Swanson

    Peter Swanson es autor de seis novelas, entre ellas The Kind Worth Killing, ganadora del premio New England Society Book Award y finalista del CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger y Her Every Fear, libro del…

  • Author Sarah Gailey

    Entrevista con una autora: Sarah Gailey

    Sarah Gailey saltó a la fama en 2015 y, desde entonces, se ha convertido en una de las voces más agudas y divertidas de la cultura pop online. Colabora habitualmente en varios sitios web, incluyendo…

  • Luke Geddes and his debut novel, Heart of Junk

    Entrevista con un autor: Luke Geddes

    Luke Geddes es originario de Appleton, Wisconsin, y actualmente reside en Cincinnati, Ohio. Tiene un doctorado en literatura comparada y escritura creativa por la Universidad de Cincinnati. Es autor…

  • Ryan La Sala and his debut novel, Reverie

    Entrevista con un autor: Ryan La Sala

    Ryan La Sala creció en Connecticut, pero solo físicamente. Mentalmente, pasó la mayor parte de su infancia en los mundos de Sailor Moon y Xena: La Princesa Guerrera, lo que quizás explique todos sus…

  • Chris McCormick and his latest book, The Gimmicks

    Entrevista con un autor: Chris McCormick

    Chris McCormick es autor de una colección de cuentos, Desert Boys, ganadora del Premio Stonewall del Libro en 2017. Nacido en 1987 y criado en el desierto de Mojave, California, se graduó de la…

  • Tochi Onyebuchi and his adult fiction debut novel, Riot Baby

    Entrevista con un autor: Tochi Onyebuchi

    Tochi Onyebuchi es el autor de la novela juvenil "Beasts Made of Night", ganadora del Premio Ilube Nommo a la Mejor Novela de Ficción Especulativa de un Africano, su secuela, "Crown of Thunder", y…

  • Nicholas Meyer and his latest novel, The Adventure of the Peculiar Protocols

    Entrevista con un autor: Nicholas Meyer

    Nicholas Meyer es un galardonado autor, guionista y director. Su obra creativa en publicaciones, cine y televisión abarca más de cinco décadas. Su última novela es "La aventura de los protocolos…


Reviews by Daryl M.

  • Cover image for The Picture Bride

    The Picture Bride

    The year is 1917 and a seventeen-year-old girl named Willow, who lives with her widowed mother and two younger brothers in a small, rural village in southeastern Korea, is asked by a traveling matchmaker if she wants to get married. The older woman shows Willow a photo of a young...
  • Cover image for Darling Girl: A Novel of Peter Pan

    Darling Girl: A Novel of Peter Pan

    • By: Michalski, Liz
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    We all know the story of Peter Pan, the boy who refuses to grow up. J.M. Barrie wrote and published a play and two books about Peter and his adventures in the early 20th century, recounting how Peter visited the Darling children: Wendy, John, and Michael, and spirited them away...
  • Cover image for Acts of Violet

    Acts of Violet

    • By: Montimore, Margarita
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    In early 2020, Margarita Montimore published her debut novel, Oona Out of Order. It followed a woman who awakes every January 1st at a different point in her life. She lives in that year, and in that body, until December 31st, only to awaken the following morning beginning a different...
  • Cover image for Hawk Mountain

    Hawk Mountain

    • By: Habib, Conner
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    In the late afternoon, Todd sits on the beach watching 6-year-old Anthony, his son, play in the surf. A man approaches Todd, and, after a minute, he recognizes him. It is Jack, who bullied Todd relentlessly during their senior year in high school. In spite of their shared history, Jack...
  • Cover image for The Kaiju Preservation Society

    The Kaiju Preservation Society

    • By: Scalzi, John
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    In early March of 2020, Jamie Gray is unceremoniously demoted from marketing executive to “deliverator” at füdmüd, an internet startup company in New York City. As the COVID pandemic worsens, Jamie struggles to get by until a chance delivery happens to be to Tom Stevens. Tom tells Jamie that he...
  • Cover image for A Prayer for the Crown-Shy

    A Prayer for the Crown-Shy

    • By: Chambers, Becky
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    In 2021, Becky Chambers introduced readers to the moon of Panga, where, centuries ago, the civilization’s robots gained consciousness and, en masse, walked off into the surrounding wilderness and were never heard from again. Until the day a robot named Splendid Speckled Mosscap walked up to Sibling Dex, a tea...
  • Cover image for Remarkably Bright Creatures

    Remarkably Bright Creatures

    • By: Van Pelt, Shelby
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    After her husband’s death, Tova Sullivan took a job cleaning the Sowell Bay Aquarium. She works evenings after the aquarium has closed to the public, mopping the floors, clearing the trash cans, and cleaning the glass walls of the exhibition tanks until they shine. As she works her way around...
  • Cover image for The Children on the Hill

    The Children on the Hill

    • By: McMahon, Jennifer
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Monster. The word brings to mind ugly, misshapen creatures wreaking havoc wherever they go. Perhaps the most famous monster is Frankenstein’s monster from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. It’s been over 200 years since the teenaged Shelley created one of the most enduring tales of all time. And over the last two...
  • Cover image for Siren Queen

    Siren Queen

    On a whim, a young Chinese-American girl pays with an inch of her hair so that she and he sister can see Romeo and Juliet at the new nickelodeon in their neighborhood. From that moment on, she has a single desire: to be a motion picture star. Not simply an...
  • Cover image for Never Been Kissed

    Never Been Kissed

    • By: Janovsky, Timothy
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    As Wren Roland celebrates his 22nd birthday with his best friends and roommates, Mateo and Avery, he begins to lament the fact that he has never been kissed. He’s been close, but has yet to experience what his degree in film studies has convinced him will be a life-altering and...