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Book Review: Chain of Thorns Is a Pleasant, but Forgettable, Read

Warning: minor spoilers for Chain of Thorns by Cassandra Clare. No major plot spoilers, but if you’d like to go in completely blind, don’t read this! When you’re as familiar with an author’s work as I am with Cassandra Clare’s,…

Kat McNamara and Dom Sherwood Want Us To Relive Shadowhunters, For Some Reason

We will say this about Shadowhunters, the chaotic mess of a show that aired from 2016 to 2019 on Freeform and Netflix: it always gave us lots to talk about. So, so much to talk about. For that reason, maybe…

Advance Review: She Gets the Girl Is Funny, and Full of Heart

Like so many members of the online book community, I grew up on YA literature – most of which follows high school age characters and deals with themes relevant to people in that age group. Also like many others in…

Book Review: ‘The Grimrose Girls’ is a Slightly Unhinged and Very Fun Murder Mystery

The Grimrose Girls is a Once Upon A Time-style fairytale retelling and a slightly unhinged high school murder mystery.

Rick Riordan and Mark Oshiro to Co-Write a New Book About Nico and Will!

We can never get enough of the characters from Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, and it looks like we’ll get to see even more of them in a new book set to be released in summer 2023.…

Netflix Renews ‘Young Royals’ For A Season 2!

‘Young Royals’ was one of the biggest and most pleasant surprises of Netflix’s summer 2021 lineup. The Swedish show follows Prince Wilhelm as he navigates life at an elite boarding school – and falls in love with one of his…

Fangirlish: Our Playlist For Kit and Ty From ‘The Shadowhunter Chronicles’

When Cassandra Clare first announced Secrets of Blackthorn Hall, a free, online series of stories set in the Shadowhunter Chronicles universe, a lot of us were hoping it would mean that we’d get a glimpse of Kit and Ty before…

Advanced Review: ‘The Misadventures of an Amateur Naturalist’ Puts A Sapphic Twist On A Classic Fairytale

Fairy tale retellings are everywhere these days, it seems, and they never seem to get old. There’s something at once comforting and exciting about reading a lot of different takes on the same story. You know what’s going to happen,…

‘The Shadowhunter Chronicles’: Our Wishlist For ‘Secrets of Blackthorn Hall’

In one week, we will have new, canon Shadowhunter Chronicles content, as Secrets of Blackthorn Hall is set to begin for real over on Tumblr. If you’re not up to date on this new project, here’s the basic rundown: Secrets…

Advanced Review: ‘Truth of the Divine’ is an Interesting Read, if a Difficult One

I received an advanced copy of Truth of the Divine in exchange for an honest review. Thank you to Netgalley for giving me the chance to read it! In trying to sort out my many, many thoughts and feelings about…