Asking for it – Lilah Pace

  I´ve seen mentions of this book around the web and when it was chosen as one of the best books of 2015 at the 6 month mark over at Book Riot I… Continue reading →

The strange and beautiful sorrows of Ava Lavender – Leslye Walton

Foolish love appears to be the Roux family birthright, an ominous forecast for its most recent progeny, Ava Lavender. Ava—in all other ways a normal girl—is born with the wings of a bird.… Continue reading →

Red queen – Victoria Aveyard

The poverty stricken Reds are commoners, living under the rule of the Silvers, elite warriors with god-like powers. To Mare Barrow, a 17-year-old Red girl from The Stilts, it looks like nothing will… Continue reading →

Fiendish – Brenna Yovanoff

    Clementine DeVore spent ten years trapped in a cellar, pinned down by willow roots, silenced and forgotten. Now she’s out and determined to uncover who put her in that cellar and… Continue reading →

Radiant days – Elizabeth Hand

    It is 1978. Merle is in her first year at the Corcoran School of Art, catapulted from her impoverished Appalachian upbringing into a sophisticated, dissipated art scene. It is also 1870.… Continue reading →

Dorothy must die – Danielle Paige

      I didn’t ask for any of this. I didn’t ask to be some kind of hero. But when your whole life gets swept up by a tornado – taking you… Continue reading →

The summer prince – Alaya Dawn Johnson

    A  story of love, death, technology, and art set amid the tropics of a futuristic Brazil. The lush city of Palmares Tres shimmers with tech and tradition, with screaming gossip casters… Continue reading →

The first fifteen lives of Harry August – Claire North

    No matter what he does or the decisions he makes, when death comes, Harry always returns to where he began, a child with all the knowledge of a life he has… Continue reading →

The ghost train to New Orleans – Mur Lafferty

    Zoe Norris writes travel guides for the undead. And she’s good at it too—her new-found ability to talk to cities seems to help. After the success ofThe Sbambling Guide to New… Continue reading →

Congratulations, by the way : some thoughts on kindness – George Saunders

    Three months after George Saunders gave a graduation address at Syracuse University, a transcript of that speech was posted on the website of The New York Times, where its simple, uplifting… Continue reading →