Romano is a masterful storyteller, unfolding a captivating and imaginative tale. This engrossing, surprising, and psychologically astute novel takes a real-life event—the devastating 1958 fire at the Our Lady of the Angels school that... Read More

"Chimera" is a thought-provoking examination of what it means to be human. Being a teenage girl isn’t easy—and it’s even more difficult when you’re a werewolf. "Chimera", C. D. Bell’s second book in the Weregirl Trilogy,... Read More

In a futuristic England where the Nazis won the Second World War, Jessika Keller is a model citizen. Her family is perfect, her father is a high-ranking official. But her conformity feels like an itchy suit, and the more rules she... Read More

Hossain’s story ripples with magic and just a dash of something twistedly angelic. Whatever your level of familiarity with beings mythological and godlike, rest assured: you’ve never journeyed with djinn like these before! Saad Z.... Read More

Don Quixote and Candide Seek Truth, Justice, and El Dorado in the Digital Age is fanciful, intelligent entertainment, better sipped than gulped to enjoy the full effect. The picaresque novel gets a fresh spin in Stefan Soto’s... Read More

This is a beautifully written ode to the inherent magic of books and reading. Books are portals to other worlds. In "The Wild Book", a young boy learns about the power of stories when he explores his uncle’s enchanted library of... Read More

"Starswept" is a seductive and wholly satisfying book from start to finish—imaginative, well written, and touching on themes beyond romantic love. Love fantasy? Romance laced with bittersweet longing? Science fiction that glows with... Read More

Though draped in the mythic, the novel’s blood and bones are thoroughly and relatably human. The otherworldly and the mundane collide in Shawn Smucker’s "The Day the Angels Fell", a humanizing tale of cosmic proportions. When death... Read More