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Girls and Their Horses
Is a Delicious Thriller for the
Saddle Club
Set
By Lacy Baugher Milas
June 6, 2023 | 10:40am
The Lost War
Is a Satisfyingly Traditional Old School Fantasy
By Lacy Baugher Milas
May 22, 2023 | 12:05pm
Painted Devils
: An Adventurous Sequel With a Surprisingly Emotional Heart
By Lacy Baugher Milas
May 17, 2023 | 10:45am
Yellowface
Is an Addictive, Uncomfortable Evisceration of Modern Day Publishing
By Lacy Baugher Milas
May 16, 2023 | 10:40am
Jennifer Saint’s
Atalanta
Gives A Lesser Known Greek Heroine Her Due
By Lacy Baugher Milas
May 9, 2023 | 11:30am
Making the Familiar New In Rebecca Yarros's
Fourth Wing
By Alana Joli Abbott
May 8, 2023 | 12:45pm
The Salt Grows Heavy
Is an Elegant Mermaid Nightmare
By Matthew Jackson
May 3, 2023 | 10:40am
Clytemnestra
Is a Fiercely Feminist New Take on One of Greek Mythology’s Most Wicked Women
By Lacy Baugher Milas
May 2, 2023 | 10:43am
A Sleight of Shadows
Returns Readers to Kat Howard’s Unseen World
By Lacy Baugher Milas
April 27, 2023 | 10:40am
Emily Henry’s Latest Contemporary Romance Will Transport You to Your
Happy Place
By Natalie Zutter
April 25, 2023 | 10:22am
The Haunting of Alejandra
Is an Intimate Chiller
By Matthew Jackson
April 20, 2023 | 3:46pm
The Secret Service of Tea and Treason
: India Holton’s Back with Another Delightfully Whimsical Romance
By Allison Nichols
April 19, 2023 | 11:16am
The Bone Shard War
Sends Andrea Stewart’s Drowning Empire Trilogy Off In Epic Style
By Lacy Baugher Milas
April 18, 2023 | 10:33am
Peter Beagle’s
The Way Home
Is a Reminder That He’s Always Been One of Fantasy’s Greats
By Lacy Baugher Milas
April 7, 2023 | 10:30am
Coronation Year
: A Charming Historical Tale Given New Relevance By Current Events
By Lacy Baugher Milas
April 4, 2023 | 10:30am
A House with Good Bones
: A Sly, Wry Southern Gothic Nightmare
By Lacy Baugher Milas
March 28, 2023 | 10:30am
Faithless, Unbroken, Revolutionary: The Powerful Second Installment of C.L. Clark's “Magic of the Lost” Series
By Alana Joli Abbott
March 14, 2023 | 10:45am
The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi
Is a Genre-Defying, Propulsive Fantasy Romp
By Lacy Baugher Milas
March 9, 2023 | 11:22am
The Golden Spoon
Finds a Winning Recipe In a Story Of Murder at a Baking Competition
By Lacy Baugher Milas
March 8, 2023 | 11:25am
The Foxglove King
: A Stunning Series Opener With Death Magic Laced Through Every Page
By Lacy Baugher Milas
March 7, 2023 | 10:30am
The Devil on the Deep Blue Sea: Piracy, Magic, and Diablos in
The Wicked Bargain
By Alana Joli Abbott
March 1, 2023 | 1:15pm
A Day of Fallen Night
Is the Absolute Best Kind of Expansive Fantasy Epic
By Lacy Baugher Milas
February 28, 2023 | 9:30am
Users
Is an Exhausted Fairy Tale About Tech
By Emily Price
February 21, 2023 | 9:40am
Natalie Haynes Beautifully Reinvents the Legend of Medusa In
Stone Blind
By Lacy Baugher Milas
February 16, 2023 | 9:40am
Don't Fear the Reaper
Is Another Triumph From Stephen Graham Jones
By Matthew Jackson
February 8, 2023 | 9:45am
The Last Tale of the Flower Bride
: Roshani Chokshi's Adult Debut Shimmers with Dark Delights
By Lacy Baugher Milas
February 7, 2023 | 10:30am
The Villa
: A Sumptuous, Addictive Thriller with Something to Say
By Lacy Baugher Milas
January 25, 2023 | 10:30am
Begin Again
is Emma Lord's Best Book Since
Tweet Cute
By Allison Nichols
January 24, 2023 | 9:45am
How to Sell a Haunted House
Is Grady Hendrix At His Creepy, Emotional Best
By Matthew Jackson
January 17, 2023 | 9:30am
Hell Bent
Is a Vividly Rendered, Relentlessly Paced Return to the World of
Ninth House
By Lacy Baugher Milas
January 16, 2023 | 9:30am
Song of Silver, Flame Like Night
Introduces An Immersive and Lyrical Fantasy Landscape
By Lacy Baugher Milas
January 4, 2023 | 10:30am
Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute
: Romance Author Talia Hibbert's YA Debut Is a Winner
By Lacy Baugher Milas
January 3, 2023 | 9:15am
Screaming On the Inside
: They Never Wanted Moms to Win
By Whitney Friedlander
December 8, 2022 | 9:19am
Bad Dolls
Proves the Remarkable Versatility of Rachel Harrison
By Paste Staff
December 7, 2022 | 9:33am
A Fire Endless
Is a Confident, Compelling Conclusion to the Elements of Cadence Series
By Lacy Baugher Milas
December 6, 2022 | 10:30am
Fable
Prequel
Saint
Takes Us Back to the World of the Narrows
By Lacy Baugher Milas
November 30, 2022 | 9:45am
Never Ever Getting Back Together
: Not Much Bad Blood for This YA Rom-Com
By Whitney Friedlander
November 29, 2022 | 12:01pm
The Cloisters
Wants Accessible Vibes, Not Accessible History
By Emily Price
November 16, 2022 | 11:45am
Tread of Angels
: A Fairly Basic Mystery Bolstered by Phenomenal Worldbuilding
By Lacy Baugher Milas
November 15, 2022 | 10:30am
Seasparrow
Is the Most Emotionally Harrowing
Graceling
Novel Yet
By Alexis Gunderson
November 14, 2022 | 12:14pm
The Resemblance
Is a Dark, Twisted Thriller That Makes a Statement About Greek Life on College Campuses
By Ashley Bissette Sumerel
November 9, 2022 | 10:14am
Hope Against the Odds In C. L. Polk's
Even Though I Knew the End
By Paste Staff
November 8, 2022 | 10:30am
Ocean's Echo
Successfully Mixes Swoony Romance and High Stakes Space Adventure
By Lacy Baugher Milas
November 3, 2022 | 12:35pm
An Ancient Classic Finds New Life in Joan He’s
Strike the Zither
By Paste Staff
October 27, 2022 | 11:19am
The Atlas Paradox's
Slow Start Eventually Builds to a Riveting Ending
By Lacy Baugher Milas
October 25, 2022 | 10:47am
Poster Girl
: A Haunting Dystopia That Will Make You Think Twice About Your Own Use of Surveillance Technology
By Ashley Bissette Sumerel
October 18, 2022 | 1:01pm
The River of Silver
Offers a Welcome Return to the World of Daevabad
By Lacy Baugher Milas
October 17, 2022 | 11:30am
Little Eve
: A Deliciously Dark Period Tale About Family, Belief, and Trauma
By Lacy Baugher Milas
October 11, 2022 | 11:30am
Hester
Gives
The Scarlet Letter
the Origin Story We Didn't Know It Needed
By Lacy Baugher Milas
October 10, 2022 | 12:02pm
Horror-Tinged Survival Tale
The Sacrifice
Is Full of Surprises
By Lacy Baugher Milas
October 5, 2022 | 12:15pm
The Secrets at the Heart of
House of Hunger
Will Keep You Up at Night
By Lacy Baugher Milas
September 29, 2022 | 10:58am
The Golden Enclaves
Is a Thrilling, Heartfelt Conclusion to the Scholomance Saga
By Lacy Baugher Milas
September 28, 2022 | 11:20am
The Witch and the Tsar
Is a Fantastical, Feminist Reimagining of Russian Folklore
By Lacy Baugher Milas
September 22, 2022 | 6:52pm
Defend the Dawn
Is a Slow, Introspective Sequel That Leaves Its Heroine Behind
By Lacy Baugher Milas
September 20, 2022 | 1:03pm
The Ballad of Never After
: Stephanie Garber’s Charming Fairytale Spinoff Spins Its Wheels
By Lacy Baugher Milas
September 16, 2022 | 12:01pm
Nona the Ninth
: Tamsyn Muir's Locked Tomb Series Remains Defiantly Weird and Strangely Beautiful
By Lacy Baugher Milas
September 13, 2022 | 10:42am
Good Trouble in Aiden Thomas’s
The Sunbearer Trials
By Paste Staff
September 10, 2022 | 10:25am
The House with the Golden Door
Is a Nuanced Expansion of
The Wolf Den’s
World
By Lacy Baugher Milas
September 7, 2022 | 12:05pm
Who
Are
the Monsters?: Class and Cruelty in Tanvi Berwah’s
Monsters Born and Made
By Paste Staff
September 6, 2022 | 2:45pm
The Pieces of Lush Gothic Fantasy
Belladonna
Make For a Compelling Brew
By Lacy Baugher Milas
August 30, 2022 | 11:15am
Star Wars: The Princess and the Scoundrel
is More Than Just a Tie-In Novel
By Natalie Zutter
August 27, 2022 | 1:00pm
Lightlark
Proves that Popular Formulas Work For a Reason
By Lacy Baugher Milas
August 26, 2022 | 11:31am
Bringing a Hero Home:
Terminal Peace
Deftly Concludes the Janitors of the Post-Apocalypse Series
By Paste Staff
August 25, 2022 | 10:32am
The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy
Is a Whimsical, Poignant Fantasy Romance
By Carly Lane
August 24, 2022 | 11:01am
Babel
Is an Ambitious Epic That Doesn’t Trust Its Audience Enough
By Lacy Baugher Milas
August 23, 2022 | 11:01am
The Oleander Sword
Is a Gut-Wrenching Sequel With a Killer Cliffhanger
By Lacy Baugher Milas
August 16, 2022 | 1:15pm
The Rabbit Hutch
Is a Frenetic Debut About Alienation
By Emily Price
August 15, 2022 | 1:35pm
Stealing Spirits in Harlem Renaissance DC: The Heist Fantasy of Leslye Penelope’s
The Monsters We Defy
By Paste Staff
August 9, 2022 | 11:05am
Violet Made of Thorns
Is a Fast-Paced Fairytale With a Refreshingly Difficult Heroine
By Lacy Baugher Milas
July 28, 2022 | 11:04am
A Strange And Stubborn Endurance
: A Fantasy Romance That Proves Trust is the Sexiest Thing of All
By Lacy Baugher Milas
July 27, 2022 | 10:30am
The Book of Gothel
Reimagines
Rapunzel’s
Witch As the Hero of Her Own Story
By Lacy Baugher Milas
July 26, 2022 | 1:15pm
The Daughter of Doctor Moreau
Is a Stirring Rumination on Faith, Family, and Humanity
By Samantha Sullivan
July 20, 2022 | 12:33pm
Just Like Home
: Sarah Gailey Exorcises Our Grisly Obsession with True Crime
By Natalie Zutter
July 19, 2022 | 12:30pm
What Moves the Dead
Is Delicate, Atmospheric, and Thoroughly Creepy
By Lacy Baugher Milas
July 15, 2022 | 12:15pm
Lapvona
Is a Morality Tale With an Empty Heart
By Emily Price
July 13, 2022 | 2:19pm
The It Girl
Is a Compulsively Readable Mystery About Memory and Loss
By Lacy Baugher Milas
July 12, 2022 | 11:30am
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Is Gabrielle Zevin at Her Most Expansive
By Alexis Gunderson
July 7, 2022 | 1:15pm
This Vicious Grace
Has All the Elements of a Perfect YA Fantasy Romance
By Lacy Baugher Milas
July 4, 2022 | 11:15am
Our Crooked Hearts
is a Witchy Tale of Sisterhood with Serious
The Craft
Vibes
By Lacy Baugher Milas
June 29, 2022 | 4:02pm
Blade Breaker
: Victoria Aveyard’s Epic Fantasy Sequel Ups the Stakes For All
By Lacy Baugher Milas
June 28, 2022 | 11:00am
A Tale of Two Nolas: Alex Jennings’s
The Ballad of Perilous Graves
By Paste Staff
June 27, 2022 | 3:00pm
The House Across the Lake
: A Hauntingly Familiar Tale—Until It’s Not
By Amanda Mullen
June 23, 2022 | 4:03pm
Juniper and Thorn
Is a Lush Fairytale with a Dark Heart
By Lacy Baugher Milas
June 21, 2022 | 10:01am
A Mirror Mended
: Alix E. Harrow’s Fractured Fairytales Series Remains Delightful
By Lacy Baugher Milas
June 15, 2022 | 11:30am
Geraldine Brooks’s
Horse
is a Sweeping Look Back at Both Horseracing and Race in America
By Lacy Baugher Milas
June 14, 2022 | 11:15am
Hell Followed with Us
Is a Furious Post-Apocalyptic Tale of Queer Survival
By Lacy Baugher Milas
June 10, 2022 | 2:01pm
Counterfeit
Is a Complicated Tale of Friendship, Lies, and Knockoff Handbags
By Lacy Baugher Milas
June 8, 2022 | 10:31am
For The Throne
: Hannah Whitten’s Dark and Thrilling Wilderwood Saga Sticks the Landing
By Lacy Baugher Milas
June 7, 2022 | 10:15am
A Procedural Without Police: B. L. Blanchard’s
The Peacekeeper
By Paste Staff
June 6, 2022 | 3:01pm
David Sedaris Grows Up with
Happy-Go-Lucky
By Whitney Friedlander
May 31, 2022 | 1:15pm
Hide
: Kiersten White’s Adult Horror Debut is a Supernatural Roller Coaster
By Lacy Baugher Milas
May 24, 2022 | 10:01am
Secrets, Lies, and Jinn: Chelsea Abdullah's
The Stardust Thief
By Paste Staff
May 18, 2022 | 10:22am
Breezy Romantic Thriller
My Summer Darlings
Takes Summer Obsession to New Heights
By Lacy Baugher Milas
May 17, 2022 | 10:30am
Family of Liars
: A Serviceable Return to the World of
We Were Liars
By Amanda Mullen
May 10, 2022 | 10:30am
I Kissed Shara Wheeler
: Casey McQuiston’s YA Debut is a Charming Queer Mystery
By Lacy Baugher Milas
May 9, 2022 | 11:01am
Book Lovers
: Emily Henry’s Charming Meta Romance for the Hallmark Cynics
By Natalie Zutter
May 5, 2022 | 9:50am
Book of Night
: YA Star Holly Black Levels Up with Her Dark Adult Debut
By Lacy Baugher Milas
May 3, 2022 | 10:15am
Nettle & Bone
Mixes Horror and Heart in a Bittersweet, Complex Dark Fantasy
By Lacy Baugher Milas
April 27, 2022 | 1:00pm
Kaikeyi
Brilliantly Reimagines a Despised Queen from Indian Mythology
By Lacy Baugher Milas
April 26, 2022 | 11:01am
Blood Sugar
: An Unsettling but Gripping Character Study
By Amanda Mullen
April 19, 2022 | 11:01am
In a Garden Burning Gold
Messily Mixes Rich Political Fantasy with Intergenerational Trauma
By Lacy Baugher Milas
April 5, 2022 | 11:01am
The Wolf Den
is a Fierce, Feminist Tale of a Vibrant and Brutal Pompeii
By Lacy Baugher Milas
March 29, 2022 | 10:00am
The Bone Orchard
: A Necromantic Political Fantasy That Could Use Some Pruning
By Natalie Zutter
March 22, 2022 | 11:15am
The Book of Cold Cases
is a Haunting Tale About Facing Ghosts
By Amanda Mullen
March 16, 2022 | 11:35am
Secret Identity
: A Noir Mystery About the Uncredited Heroes of Comics History
By Natalie Zutter
March 15, 2022 | 1:01pm
The Atlas Six
: The Dark Fantasy Viral Sensation is the Real Deal
By Lacy Baugher Milas
March 4, 2022 | 10:15am
Delilah Green Doesn't Care
: A Sexy Queer Romance with Emotional Heft
By Delia Harrington
February 23, 2022 | 10:30am
The Paris Apartment
Sets a Dark Mystery in the City of Light
By Lacy Baugher Milas
February 22, 2022 | 3:03pm
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