Hello, and welcome to the first-ever yearly reading reflection. This year, I asked our writers to sit down and take a little time to reflect on their reading years and see if they had any thoughts that bubbled to the surface when looking at their collective readings. Specifically, I asked them to go through and…
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While we don’t often review novellas for The Quill to Live, we thought we would do an end-of-year wrap-up of some stand-out shorts that we collectively read in 2024. We did not read enough of a sample of novellas to definitively plant a flag in the ground and say these are the best, but they…
How much mileage can Stephen King get out of a scary town with a crazy, powerful monster lurking in the sewers? A whole, whole lot. It is a beefy book packed with horrific moments, worst fears, and a myriad of stories that all sit in the center of an interconnected web. Derry, Maine is not…
Welcome back to another Quill to Live year-end book roundup. Nine years we have been doing this, so please get excited for our ten-year anniversary this coming March! 2024 has been an interesting year for science fiction, fantasy, and horror. This year, the QTL team decided to slow down a bit. We diversified our reads,…
This year I have read a lot of books that feature revolutions. Adrian Tchaikovsky is no slouch when it comes to exploring this topic, but delivers a bigger punch than usual with his latest, Alien Clay. I immediately latched onto its premise, seeing it as a spiritual successor to Cage of Souls, a book that…
When I attended Holly Black’s book tour earlier this year, she shared that Wren, her main character in The Prisoner’s Throne series, was hard to write because she wouldn’t “protag.” Meaning that Wren did not want to participate in the events unfolding around her, which made her a very interesting character to follow. Well, I…
Continue reading ➞ The Peculiar Garden of Harriet Hunt – Dig It
Jason Pargin, also known as David Wong, is an author we reviewed a while back but haven’t returned to in some time. I recently got curious as to what he has been up to and found that he put out an entire trilogy while I wasn’t looking. Zoey Ashe is a dystopian cyberpunk trilogy about…
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