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Daryl M.

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Posts by Daryl M.

  • Collage of Shaun Barger and his first novel, Mage Against the Machine

    Entrevista con un autor: Shaun Barger

    Shaun Barger es un novelista residente en Los Ángeles que detesta el frío, las conspiraciones idiotas y el fascismo. Divide sus días entre escribir, resistirse al canto de sirena de los eternos climas…

  • Robert Masello and his current novel The Night Crossing

    Entrevista con un autor: Robert Masello

    Robert Masello es un periodista galardonado, guionista de televisión y autor de bestsellers. Su guía de composición, "Las reglas de escritura de Robert", se ha adoptado en numerosas aulas…

  • Author V.E. Schwab and her latest book, Vengeful

    Entrevista con un autor: VE Schwab

    Victoria "VE" Schwab ha sido llamada "la heredera de Diana Wynne Jones". Es autora de la serie "Shades of Magic", éxito de ventas del New York Times, así como de varias novelas para jóvenes y adultos…

  • Author Rebecca Serle and her book, The Dinner List

    Entrevista con una autora: Rebecca Serle

    Rebecca Serle escribe a tiempo completo, lo que significa que va en pijama al trabajo. Estudió en la Universidad del Sur de California y luego obtuvo su maestría en Bellas Artes en The New School de…

  • Author P. Djeli Clark and his book "The Black God's Drum"

    Entrevista con un autor: P. Djèlí Clark

    Nacido en Nueva York y criado principalmente en Houston, P. Djèlí Clark pasó sus primeros años de vida en Trinidad y Tobago, la tierra natal de sus padres. Sus escritos han aparecido en Daily Science…

  • Author Christopher Huang and his book, A Gentleman's Murder

    Entrevista con un autor: Christopher Huang

    Christopher Huang creció en Singapur, donde cumplió dos años del Servicio Militar Nacional como señalero del Ejército. Después se mudó a Canadá, donde estudió Arquitectura en la Universidad McGill de…

  • Photo of Juliet McDaniel and her debut novel, Mr. & Mrs. American Pie

    Entrevista con una autora: Juliet McDaniel

    Juliet McDaniel tiene una maestría en Escritura de la Universidad DePaul. Aunque se crio en Arizona, pasó los últimos 25 años viviendo en Chicago, donde actualmente reside con su pareja y sus gatos…

  • Author Anne Youngson and her debut novel, Meet Me at the Museum

    Entrevista con una autora: Anne Youngson

    Anne Youngson tuvo una larga y exitosa carrera en la industria automotriz antes de jubilarse anticipadamente para dedicarse a la escritura. Actualmente cursa un doctorado en Oxford Brookes. Anne y su…

  • Author Ruthann Emrys with her book covers

    Entrevista con una autora: Ruthanna Emrys

    Ruthanna Emrys vive en una misteriosa mansión a las afueras de Washington D. C. con su esposa y su numerosa y peculiar familia. Prepara vainilla casera, se obsesiona con el diseño de videojuegos, da…


Reviews by Daryl M.

  • Cover image for Hell Bent

    Hell Bent

    • By: Bardugo, Leigh
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    At the end of Ninth House, Galaxy “Alex” Stern solved the mystery of who killed Tara Hutchins and why, uncovering a conspiracy that involved some of the highest offices of Yale University and several of their “secret societies.” At the end of the novel, Darlington, Alex’s advisor in Lethe, the “ninth...
  • Cover image for The Motion Picture Teller

    The Motion Picture Teller

    • By: Cotterill, Colin
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Supot Yongjaiyut knows he is not living his best life. The year is 1996 and Supot lives in Bangkok. During the day, he works for the Royal Thai Mail Service, a job he loathes and for which he knows he has no aptitude. When he’s not at work, he spends...
  • Cover image for Weyward: A Novel

    Weyward: A Novel

    • By: Hart, Emilia
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    “The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.”  From: On Lies, Secrets, and Silence by Adrienne RichAltha is a 21-year-old woman who, in 1619, is accused of, and tried for, witchcraft in her small English village. She is a...
  • Cover image for Stone Blind

    Stone Blind

    • By: Haynes, Natalie
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    "I only see them for an instant. Then they're gone. But it's enough. Enough to know that the hero isn't the one who's kind or brave or loyal. Sometimes -- not always, but sometimes -- he is monstrous. And the monster? Who is she? She is what happens when someone...
  • Cover image for The Getaway

    The Getaway

    • By: Giles, Lamar
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Karloff Country is a marvel. Modeled on Walt Disney World in Florida, Karloff Country is a slightly smaller theme park/resort complex with a similar number of theme parks as Walt Disney World, but also includes: planned communities for all of its employees, a power plant, vertical farms to provide the...
  • Cover image for Paperback Jack

    Paperback Jack

    • By: Estleman, Loren D.
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    The year is 1946. WWII has ended and Jacob Heppleman is one of the many veterans returning home from the European conflict. For Jacob, home is New York City. Before the war, he wrote detective, western, and war stories for the pulp magazines. He even published a novel that was...
  • Cover image for Neom

    Neom

    • By: Tidhar, Lavie
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    A sprawling metropolis on the edge of the Red Sea that is simultaneously a playground of the wealthy and a struggle for the poor. A woman working multiple jobs to survive because she isn’t rich in a place that isn’t kind to someone without money. A young boy, alone in...
  • Cover image for Gallant

    Gallant

    • By: Schwab, Victoria
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Olivia Prior has lived at Merilance since she was two years old. While Merilance calls itself a school, the truth is that it is closer to an asylum, a prison. It is a place where girls and young women who are not wanted are sent when they have nowhere else...
  • Cover image for Wrong Place, Wrong Time

    Wrong Place, Wrong Time

    • By: McAllister, Gillian
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    It is a given that, in most mystery novels, someone dies. The death occurs either before, or shortly after, the novel begins. The bulk of the narrative will explore how or why someone died. In her new novel, Wrong Place, Wrong Time, Gillian McAllister finds a new way to approach...