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Provocative Southern Noir Thriller All The Sinners Bleed Is S.A. Crosby’s Best Yet By Lacy Baugher Milas June 7, 2023 | 11:20am
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

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