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With its roots in Alice in Wonderland, A Blade so Black is the story of a young African-American woman’s fight to help stop the evil of the other world from spilling over the Veil into ours. After being attacked by a Nightmare on the night of her father’s death, Alice is recruited to become a Dreamwalker,... Continue Reading →
The adult world is... built on the shifting grounds of friendship and competition. The double message of this society and economy are to get along and get ahead. We want our children to fit in and to stand out. We rarely address the conflict between these goals. -Ellen Goodman Goodman wrote this passage in her... Continue Reading →
Dear Courtney Summers. I am not very happy with you. You f’d up my routine. I can’t get The Girls theme song out of my head, I can’t stop thinking about the ending of Sadie, and there’s a two-liter bottle of Diet Coke sitting here on my desk that’ll get me through the morning, but... Continue Reading →
‘Happiness is rebellion, but it will not win the war.’ On the night of the initiation ceremony into her clan, eighteen-year-old Amani is abducted from her family to become a political decoy for the princess of the regime that has conquered her family’s world. Body doubles are used to sample food and take bullets, to... Continue Reading →
Jay Kristoff’s Lifel1k3 is a ground-shaking cross between MadMax and A.I.. From thousands upon thousands of mSv of radiation to deep-water cyber-kraken to biotech clone attack dogs, the post-apocalypse landscape of the book is wrought with all kinds of dastardly evils. Stuck in the middle are Eve and her sidekick Lemon, who spend their days... Continue Reading →
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