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To Our Untamed Core is a ferocious fight for identity and survival. With its unflinching exploration of religious trauma, spectacular world-building, and a trans-masc protagonist who fiercely commands his own narrative, Reyes walks away with another triumphant win.
Like a perfectly preserved fossil, Ghosts Aboard Starlight strips a story down to its most vital, beautiful bones.
Young love is often messy. And messy is the brilliant core of Jordon Greene’s How (Not) to Conjure a Boyfriend
There’s a certain power that comes from living in the margins.
The Great Disillusionment of Nick and Jay is a sharp, smart, and necessary entry to the Young and New Adult spaces that should be required reading a century later.
An Arcane Inheritance is a witchy story that’s as smart as it is thrilling, with strong characters and an even stronger message that you’ll definitely want to add to your spellbook.
Writing about violence, especially in a series for young adults, is a choice that carries a lot of weight.
A good romance subplot isn’t a break from the action. It’s the necessary fuel for it.
The trick to depicting a queernormative world is making queerness ubiquitous, unremarkable, and incidental to the main plot conflicts.
Adan’s story is about exploring two types of power: power for power’s sake and the power of community.
The day’s finally here. After four books, a journey across an entire continent, and more close calls than I can remember, Adan Testa’s story is finally complete.
My writing is a defiant act of hope, asserting that the power to envision a better world is the first step towards building it.