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Daryl M.

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Posts by Daryl M.

  • Author Paul Cornell and his book series, Witches of Lychford

    Entrevista con un autor: Paul Cornell

    Paul Cornell es escritor de ciencia ficción y fantasía en prosa, cómic y televisión. Es una de las dos únicas personas nominadas al Premio Hugo en las tres disciplinas. Escribió Doctor Who para la BBC…

  • Author Michel Faber and his latest book, (A Tale of Two Worlds)

    Entrevista con un autor: Michel Faber

    Michel Faber ha escrito otros siete libros, entre ellos los aclamados El pétalo carmesí y el blanco, Los gemelos Fahrenheit y la novela Bajo la piel, preseleccionada para el premio Whitbread. La…

  • Author Charlie N. Holmberg and her latest book, Spellbreaker

    Entrevista con un autor: Charlie N. Holmberg

    Charlie N. Holmberg es una autora de fantasía y novela romántica galardonada, superventas y publicada internacionalmente. Creció como trekkie junto a tres hermanas, que también tienen nombres de niño…

  • Author P. Djèlí Clark and his latest book, Ring Shout

    Entrevista con un autor: P. Djèlí Clark

    Phenderson Djéli Clark es el autor ganador de premios y nominado a los premios Hugo, Nebula, Sturgeon y World Fantasy de las novelas cortas The Black God's Drums y The Haunting of Tram Car 015. Nacido…

  • Author David Gerrold and his latest book, Hella

    Entrevista con un autor: David Gerrold

    David Gerrold lleva medio siglo escribiendo profesionalmente. Creó a los tribbles para Star Trek y a los Sleestaks para La Tierra de los Perdidos. Su novela más famosa, de las más de 50 que ha escrito…

  • Author and screenwriter, Simon Stephenson and his latest book, Set My Heart to Five

    Entrevista con un autor: Simon Stephenson

    Simon Stephenson es autor y guionista (y una vez, en una galaxia muy, muy lejana, fue médico). Es originario de Edimburgo, Escocia, pero actualmente reside en Los Ángeles, California. Disfruta de todo…

  • Freelance journalist, Stuart Turton and his latest book, The Devil and the Dark Water

    Entrevista con un autor: Stuart Turton

    Stuart Turton es un periodista independiente que vive en el oeste de Londres con su esposa. No se puede confiar en Stuart, en el mejor sentido de la palabra. Las 7½ muertes de Evelyn Hardcastle (2018)…

  • Astronomy professor, Emily Levesque and her first popular science book, The Last Stargazers

    Entrevista con una autora: Emily Levesque

    Emily Levesque es profesora de astronomía en la Universidad de Washington. Ha observado durante más de cincuenta noches con muchos de los telescopios más grandes del planeta y ha sobrevolado la…

  • Author Victoria “V. E.” Schwab and her latest book, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

    Entrevista con un autor: VE Schwab

    Victoria “VE” Schwab es la autora número uno en ventas del New York Times y tiene en su haber más de veinte libros, entre los que se incluyen la aclamada serie Shades of Magic (A Darker Shade of Magic…

  • Author Alex Pavesi and his first novel, The Eighth Detective

    Entrevista con un autor: Alex Pavesi

    Alex Pavesi fue librero en Waterstones. Tiene un doctorado en matemáticas y actualmente trabaja como ingeniero de software en Microsoft en Londres. El Octavo Detective es su primera novela y…


Reviews by Daryl M.

  • 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...
  • Cover image for The Fragile Threads of Power

    The Fragile Threads of Power

    • By: Schwab, Victoria
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    It’s been seven years since the events at the end of V.E. Schwab’s A Conjuring of Light. In Red London, Lila and Kell have been sailing the seas as privateers on her ship, the Grey Barron (They also secretly perform tasks for Red London’s crown.). Rhy Maresh, Kell’s brother, has...