Sometimes a book comes along with such a powerful blurb that you can’t help but be drawn to it. The Starless Crown, by James Rollins, is one such novel. A kind editor at Tor sent me the elevator pitch for this book back in the middle of last year and I was immediately entranced. A…
So you want to run a Little Free Library! Great, excellent, amazing! I’m an LFL steward myself, and my bookworm friends often ask what it takes to get a Little Free Library installed at or near their home. I’d love to tell you it takes brains, moxie, and spunk. But in reality, all you need…
Continue reading ➞ A Beginner’s Guide To Little Free Libraries
Every year the members of The Quill to Live gather together to plan out our reads for the next year and flag the books we are most looking forward to in order to ‘claim’ reviewer status among ourselves. We figured it might be fun to share our list of choices in case you were curious…
This post originally appeared on Tor.com During the holidays, the “spending quality time with your loved ones” refrain resounds in greeting cards, corporate emails, ads, and commercials. The winter season bursts at the seams with family-focused language and occasional jokes about how long, exactly, you can keep up with Uncle Gary’s questionable-at-best post-dinner ravings. Within…
Continue reading ➞ Five Stories About Found Family For Your Holiday TBR
The Tensorate, by Neon Yang, is a tricky set of novellas to review. Each story follows a different character for varying spans of time. They tell different stories and they vary how those stories are told. The latter ones rely on worldbuilding from the first two, expanding the world only slightly. The characters are engaging,…
How fitting: my reading goal reached its epic climax this year thanks to a steamy novella about human women gettin’ nasty with hulking blue dreamboats. That’s right, folks. I hopped on the latest BookTok bandwagon and gave a small slice of the Ice Planet Barbarians book-ematic universe a try. Ruby Dixon’s steamy spicy sci-fi saga…
The Rook & Rose series just dropped its second book, The Liar’s Knot, which is surprising given that we just ranked the first installment (The Mask of Mirrors) as one of our top books of the year. M.A. Carrick is clearly a duo that doesn’t like to waste time, especially given that these books are…
Continue reading ➞ The Liar’s Knot – Knot Your Typical Tall Tale
The accolades for Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman have been piling up for years, gaining the series a well-earned audience and catapulting it to the top of many a “Best Graphic Novels” list. But this slumberific tale sat dormant on my shelves for years, waiting patiently for the right time to escape and plop right into…
Continue reading ➞ Sandman Volume One: Preludes & Nocturnes – Power Nap
I saw Hannah Whitten's For the Wolf everywhere leading up to its release, but I never heard much about it. The book was always on my TBR, but it kept falling further and further down my list to accommodate other reads. Now after reading this awesome story, I’m sad it took me this long to…
Earlier this year, Guatam Bhatia reached out to us to review his debut novel The Wall. After reading his bio, and the synopsis of his book, it was easy to say yes. However, 2021 was as much of a beast as 2020, and that promise was harder to keep than I had planned. Fortunately, the…
Continue reading ➞ The Wall – Tear It Down To Lift Yourself Up
