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Daryl M.

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Posts by Daryl M.

  • Author Anthony Horowitz and his latest book, Marble Hall Murders

    Entrevista con un autor: Anthony Horowitz

    Anthony Horowitz es uno de los escritores más prolíficos y exitosos del Reino Unido, único en su actividad tanto en ficción para adultos como para jóvenes, televisión, teatro y periodismo. Varias de…

  • Author Tochi Onyebuchi and his latest novel, Harmattan Season

    Entrevista con un autor: Tochi Onyebuchi

    Tochi Onyebuchi es el autor de Goliath, finalista de los Premios Locus y Dragon; la novela juvenil Beasts Made of Night, ganadora del Premio Ilube Nommo a la Mejor Novela de Ficción Especulativa de un…

  • Author Michael Seth Starr and his latest book, Nothin' Comes Easy: The Life of Rodney Dangerfield

    Entrevista con un autor: Michael Seth Starr

    Michael Seth Starr cubrió la televisión en el New York Post como reportero, columnista, crítico y editor durante más de 28 años. Ha escrito una filmografía de Peter Sellers y biografías de Don Rickles…

  • Author Kate Maruyama and her latest novel, Alterations

    Entrevista con una autora: Kate Maruyama

    Kate Maruyama creció leyendo y alimentándose del cine en un pequeño pueblo de Nueva Inglaterra. Es autora de The Collective, Harrowgate y Bleak Houses. Escribe, enseña, cocina y come en Los Ángeles…

  • Author Ava Morgyn and her latest novel, The Bane Witch

    Entrevista con una autora: Ava Morgyn

    Ava Morgyn creció enamorándose de los personajes equivocados en las historias equivocadas, y luego estudió Escritura Inglesa y Retórica en la Universidad de St. Edward. Es una amante de la brujería…

  • Poet Karen Rigby and latest collection of poems, Fabulosa

    Entrevista con una poeta: Karen Rigby

    Karen Rigby es la autora de Chinoiserie, ganadora del Premio de Poesía Sawtooth en 2011. Becaria de literatura del Fondo Nacional para las Artes, sus poemas se han publicado en revistas como The…

  • Author Aimee Pokwatka and his first novel, Knife Skills For Beginners

    Entrevista con un autor: Orlando Murrin

    Tras su salto a la fama culinaria en el programa Masterchef de la BBC, Orlando Murrin se convirtió en editor de la revista BBC Good Food antes de fundar una posada gastronómica en el suroeste de…


Reviews by Daryl M.

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    Out of Character

    • By: Albert, Annabeth
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    In last year’s Conventionally Yours, Annabeth Albert took readers on a virtual roadtrip, while the country was in lockdown, so that they could join tabletop gamers Alden, Conrad, and Jasper as they made their way from New England to Las Vegas for Massive Odyssey Con West, the annual national gathering...
  • Cover image for The Final Girl Support Group

    The Final Girl Support Group

    • By: Hendrix, Grady
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Any fan of horror movies knows what the term “final girl” means. A final girl is the person left standing at the end of a horror movie. During the course of the film, she evades the threat, usually losing several friends and family members in the process, long enough to...
  • Cover image for Razorblade Tears

    Razorblade Tears

    • By: Cosby, S. A.
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Two young men, who are deeply in love, married, and fathers to a young girl. Two fathers, who cannot accept their sons as they are nor the life they are creating. Two senseless murders that remove any possibility of reconciliation or the chance to say what should have been said...
  • Cover image for A Psalm for the Wild-Built

    A Psalm for the Wild-Built

    • By: Chambers, Becky
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Centuries ago, on the moon of Panga, the robot workers, who filled the factories and other industrial pursuits of the human civilization, gained consciousness. Rather than be integrated into Pangan culture, as they were offered, the robots chose to leave, en-masse, into the surrounding wilderness. They were never heard from...
  • Cover image for The Album of Dr. Moreau

    The Album of Dr. Moreau

    • By: Gregory, Daryl
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    The Island of Dr. Moreau was H.G. Wells’ third novel and was first published in 1896. It recounts the experiences of a shipwreck victim who finds himself on an island populated by animals that have been modified by the titular Dr. Moreau, using scientific means, to become human/animal hybrids who...
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    Mother May I

    • By: Jackson, Joshilyn
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    It happens in an instant. While Bree Cabbat watches her eldest daughter rehearse a school production of Grease, her infant son, Robert, sleeps in the seat next to her in the balcony of the school’s theatre. One moment he is there, the next he is gone. In his place is...
  • Cover image for A Master of Djinn

    A Master of Djinn

    • By: Clark, P. Djèli
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    In Cairo in the 1870’s, an inventor and investigator of mysticism named al-Jahiz made a literal breakthrough unlike any other. He pierced the boundaries between our world and other worlds, allowing magic to bleed into ours. In the process, al-Jahiz was lost to another dimension before the rupture between worlds...
  • Cover image for The Dictionary of Lost Words

    The Dictionary of Lost Words

    • By: Williams, Pip
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    According to their website, the Oxford English Dictionary “is widely regarded as the accepted authority on the English language. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 words— past and present—from across the English-speaking world.” Serially published in portions, or fascicles, the first fascicle, covering “A to...
  • Cover image for Marion Lane and the Midnight Murder

    Marion Lane and the Midnight Murder

    • By: Willberg, T. A.
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Imagine the following:  A chilling murder, a secret detective agency with offices located in a myriad of tunnels located beneath London, and a young apprentice determined to find the killer in order to clear one of her closest friends of the murder. In her debut novel, which is the beginning...