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The Shattering, by Karen Healey
Thyla, by Kate Gordon
Will Supervillains Be On The Final? Vol. One, by Naomi Novik & Yishan Li

I haven’t been reading nearly as much as I want to lately, but I have made some great YA discoveries.


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I’ve been slammed by edits the last few days and feeling a bit at a low ebb - the pretty book plates went a long way to cheering me up, as did this long and thoughtful review essay by Alexandra Pierce.

Alex unpacks a lot of things I have been hoping people would notice about Power ( Read more... )

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I’ve really been enjoying Rachel Swirsky’s guest posts over at Ecstatic Days, Jeff VanderMeer’s blog. Her latest piece is a review of Cat Rambo’s collection Eyes Like Sky and Coal and Midnight (Paper Golem Press, 2009) which engages directly with another review of the collection ( Read more... )

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The irrepressible Dirk Flinthart (he always needs a descriptor when I mention him, don’t ask me why) has reviewed Siren Beat/Roadkill up at CoolShite on the Tube, one of my favourite podcasting sites which also has lots of print reviews.

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There’s a lovely review of Siren Beat/Roadkill over at Bibliophile Stalker, which is rapidly becoming one of my favourite blogs to stalk because of its interesting links round-ups.

If Roadkill is the deviant of the urban fantasy label, Siren Beat feels right at home with the ( Read more... )

Tansy Rayner Roberts also picks up details from earlier stories: in this case, two characters she created herself in issue 1 (“Scandal at the Feast of Saturn”), whom Lucy Sussex picked up in issue 2 (“Mist and Murder”). “Prosperine When It Sizzles” finds La Duchesse and Pepin, an aristocratic lady detective and her manservant, once again involved ( Read more... )