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Daryl M.

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Posts by Daryl M.

  • Tim Mason and his first adult novel, The Darwin Affair

    Entrevista con un autor: Tim Mason

    Tim Mason es un dramaturgo cuya obra se ha representado en Nueva York y en todo el mundo. Entre los premios que ha recibido se encuentran el Premio del Centro Kennedy, el Premio Hollywood Drama-Logue…

  • Del Howison and his first novel, The Survival of Margaret Thomas

    Entrevista con un autor: Del Howison

    Del Howison es un editor, periodista, autor de ficción y actor galardonado. Ha sido nominado al Premio Bram Stoker en cuatro ocasiones (y lo ganó una vez), al Premio Black Quill en dos ocasiones, al…

  • Author Casey McQuiston and her first novel, Red, White & Royal Blue

    Entrevista con un autor: Casey McQuiston

    Casey McQuiston creció en los pantanos del sur de Luisiana, donde cultivó una pasión inquebrantable por las galletas de mantequilla y miel y las historias conmovedoras. Estudió periodismo y trabajó en…

  • Author Sarah Gailey and her novel, Magic For Liars

    Entrevista con una autora: Sarah Gailey

    Sarah Gailey, ganadora del premio Hugo, vive y trabaja en Los Ángeles, California. Sus obras de no ficción han sido publicadas por Mashable y el Boston Globe, y su ficción se ha publicado…

  • Kris Waldherr and her book

    Entrevista con un autor: Kris Waldherr

    Kris Waldherr es una autora, ilustradora y diseñadora galardonada. Es miembro de la Sociedad de Novela Histórica y su ficción ha recibido becas del Centro de Artes Creativas de Virginia y una beca de…

  • Seanan McGuire and her book Middlegame

    Entrevista con un autor: Seanan McGuire

    Seanan McGuire es la galardonada autora de las series de fantasía urbana October Daye, InCryptid y Wayward Children. Además, escribe ficción más oscura bajo el seudónimo de Mira Grant. Seanan vive en…

  • Author Yangsze Choo and her latest novel, Smoke and Summons

    Entrevista con un autor: Charlie Holmberg

    Charlie N. Holmberg se crio como trekkie junto a tres hermanas, que también tienen nombres de niño, en Salt Lake City, Utah. Toca el ukelele, tiene demasiados pares de gafas y finalmente adoptó un…

  • T.J. Martinson and his debut novel, The Reign of the Kingfisher

    Entrevista con un autor: TJ Martinson

    TJ Martinson creció a las afueras de Chicago. Obtuvo su maestría en estudios literarios en la Universidad del Este de Illinois y actualmente cursa un doctorado en la Universidad de Indiana en…

  • Anthony Horowitz and his latest Mystery series book, The Sentence is Death.

    Entrevista con un autor: Anthony Horowitz

    Anthony Horowitz es un prolífico periodista y escritor de televisión, además de autor de literatura juvenil y adulta. Los herederos de Doyle y Fleming le han encomendado escribir nuevas aventuras para…

  • Author Yangsze Choo and her latest novel, The Night Tiger

    Entrevista con un autor: Yangsze Choo

    Yangsze Choo es malaya de cuarta generación, de ascendencia china. Se graduó de la Universidad de Harvard y es autora de La Novia Fantasma, que Netflix está adaptando a una serie de televisión. Su…


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...
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    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...