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Book Review: Sparrows Sing of Dying
Sparrows Sing of Dying drops you directly into a dense, overgrown landscape of politics and looming war. Pires navigates a thick underbrush of interconnected plots to deliver a superb, slow-burn, character-driven fantasy.
Book Review: Life in Pixels
With a richly detailed world, a compelling story, and strong mechanics focusing on change and connectedness, Life in Pixels will surely appeal to young readers struggling with their own self-acceptance.
Book Review: Design of Darkness
Design of Darkness by RD Pires pulls you right off the docks and into deep, treacherous waters from page one.
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Book Review: To Our Untamed Core
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.
Book Review: Ghosts Aboard Starlight
Like a perfectly preserved fossil, Ghosts Aboard Starlight strips a story down to its most vital, beautiful bones.
Book Review: How (Not) to Conjure a Boyfriend
Young love is often messy. And messy is the brilliant core of Jordon Greene’s How (Not) to Conjure a Boyfriend
Finding Power in the Margins
There’s a certain power that comes from living in the margins.
Book Review: The Great Disillusionment of Nick and Jay
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.
Book Review: An Arcane Inheritance
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.
Resorting to Violence
Writing about violence, especially in a series for young adults, is a choice that carries a lot of weight.
Love on the Battlefield
A good romance subplot isn’t a break from the action. It’s the necessary fuel for it.
Building a Queernormative World
The trick to depicting a queernormative world is making queerness ubiquitous, unremarkable, and incidental to the main plot conflicts.
How Love Can Topple a Dystopia
Adan’s story is about exploring two types of power: power for power’s sake and the power of community.
Right Back Where We Started From
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.
Why I Write Power Into the Powerless
My writing is a defiant act of hope, asserting that the power to envision a better world is the first step towards building it.
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