Title: Boy, Snow, Bird Author: Helen Oyeyemi Genre: Historical Fiction, Magic Realism, PoC Publisher: Riverhead Hardcover Publication Date: March 6 2014 Hardcover: 320 Pages In the winter of 1953, Boy Novak arrives by chance in a small town in…
Howdy! Hope you guys are having a good Sunday and that spring (or fall, depending) has arrived safe and sound! Giveaway Winner: The winner of a copy of The Last Policeman and Countdown City is Kyla Alyanna Fontalva Congratulations!…
“On The Smugglers’ Radar” is a feature for books that have caught our eye: books we have heard of via other bloggers, directly from publishers, and/or from our regular incursions into the Amazon jungle. Thus, the Smugglers’ Radar was…
It’s Friday, which means we’re over at Kirkus! Today it’s Ana’s turn with a review of romantic fantasy Moth and Spark by Anne Leonard Unfortunately, this one was a miss. Go HERE to hear why.…
It’s March! We like Mars! It’s March on Mars! To celebrate the popularity of Mars in speculative fiction (it seems the red planet is back in style), we are thrilled to have SFF author Sophia McDougall over for a…
Today’s the day! Divergent officially is out in theaters this evening, and like any obsessed dystopian YA fan, I’ve got my tickets and I’m ready to go. (Anyone else planning on watching the movie tonight?!) My experience with the…
This review/essay is divided in three parts: I. Introduction II. Context III. ALLTITMFRY (“At long last, this is the mother fucking review, y’all!”) I. Introduction Ana: I am Brazilian, have had little to no contact with what can be…
As you probably know by now, Old School Wednesdays is a new weekly Book Smuggler feature. We came up with the idea towards the end of 2012, when we were feeling exhausted from the never-ending inundation of New and…
Today we are ecstatic to host the cover reveal for World of Trouble by Ben H. Winters, the third and final novel in the Edgar Award-winning Last Policeman trilogy. Thea is a fan of the series, having read and…
Title: Every In Between Author: Erzebet YellowBoy Genre: Novella, Science Fiction, Dystopia, Post-Apocalyptic, Young Adult Publisher: Masque Books Publication Date: September 2013 Hardcover: 136 Pages They killed my mother. You are everything I ever wished for, she said before…
