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Daryl M.

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Posts by Daryl M.

  • Chunck Tingle and his book cover Bury Your Gays

    Entrevista con un autor: Chuck Tingle

    Chuck Tingle es el autor superventas de USA Today de Camp Damascus y Straight. Es una misteriosa fuerza de energía tras unas gafas de sol y una máscara rosa. También es un autor anónimo de romance…

  • Author Delilah S. Dawson and her first novel, The Resurrectionist

    Entrevista con una autora: A. Rae Dunlap

    A. (Amanda) Rae Dunlap estudió cine y literatura victoriana en la Universidad Northwestern y trabaja como editora de tráilers en Disney, dando vida a la magia de los narradores más influyentes del…

  • Book covers of favorite books

    Mis libros favoritos de 2024

    ¡Lecturas de temporada para todos! Como suele ser habitual, se han publicado libros maravillosos en 2024, y me emociona compartir mis favoritos. Los he ordenado alfabéticamente por título hasta la…

  • Genoveva Dimova and her 2 book covers

    Entrevista con una autora: Genoveva Dimova

    Genoveva Dimova es autora de fantasía y arqueóloga. Originaria de Bulgaria, ahora reside en Escocia con su pareja y un pequeño ejército de plantas de interior. Cree en escribir sobre lo que se conoce…

  • Michelle Chouinard and her book

    Entrevista con una autora: Michelle Chouinard

    Michelle Chouinard ha escrito ocho novelas de misterio superventas de USA Today y Publishers Weekly bajo un nombre diferente. Tiene un doctorado en psicología del desarrollo por la Universidad de…

  • Author Alex Segura and his book Alter Ego

    Entrevista con un autor: Alex Segura

    Alex Segura es el autor superventas y galardonado de Identidad Secreta, ganador del Premio del Libro de Los Angeles Times en la categoría de Misterio/Suspense, además de ser elegido por el Editor del…

  • Author Marjorie McCown and her latest novel, Star Struck

    Entrevista con una autora: Marjorie McCown

    Marjorie McCown ha dedicado toda su vida profesional al mundo de la narración, aunque comenzó en el ámbito visual. Pasó más de veinticinco años en Hollywood trabajando como miembro clave de los…

  • Author Emily C. Hughes and her first book, Horror For Weenies: Everything You Need to Know About the Films You're Too Scared to Watch

    Entrevista con una autora: Emily C. Hughes

    Emily C. Hughes (ella) quiere asustarte. Anteriormente editora de Unbound Worlds y TorNightfire.com, escribe sobre terror y selecciona una lista de los nuevos libros de terror del año. Puedes…

  • Author Tim Major and his latest novel, Jekyll & Hyde: Consulting Detectives

    Entrevista con un autor: Tim Major

    Tim Major es escritor y editor independiente de York, Reino Unido. Entre sus libros se incluyen Snakeskins, Hope Island, tres novelas de Sherlock Holmes, la colección de relatos "And the House Lights…

  • Author Joe R. Lansdale and his latest short story collection, In the Mad Mountains

    Entrevista con un autor: Joe R. Lansdale

    El autor de éxito internacional Joe R. Lansdale ha recibido los premios Edgar, Raymond Chandler, Bram Stoker, British Fantasy e Inkpot. Su obra abarca misterio, western, terror, thrillers, pulp…


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...