I really fell into the world of this book, which is Prohibition-era New York City, lower east side. The author paints such a beautiful picture of New York at that time that I felt completely transported. It's a world I'd love to visit again (hoping she writes many sequels!).The story is about a...
A brilliant new novel from a 25-year-old debut author, Racing the Dark is set in a land of volcanoes and earthquakes, plagues and typhoons, of island nations bound by fear of the spirits they imprisoned to control their volatile environment. Lana, a teenaged girl on a nameless backwater island, f...
Remember how Sebastião justified it? He said that summer kings were above morality, and he was right, and he was wrong. Gods are what people worship. Men are what die. The trouble, the truth that I realized only after I saw you facing those cameras,...
Invisible from the humans who pursued us, we were like beacons in a harbor for every creature of the spirit world. Flying fish battered the mast with their tails. A giant blue octopus poked a monstrous eye from the waters and watched us balefully; Parech noticed that in its eye swam a thousand gl...