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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…

Tokyo 2020: How do equestrian sports work?

The 2020 Tokyo Olympics are officially underway, and that means that millions of people around the world are about to get weirdly invested in sports they had previously never heard of. I, personally, love learning about new sports and then…

Why You Need To Watch ‘Young Royals’ On Netflix

Young Royals is a show that I probably never would have come across if not for social media. You know how, every once in a while, there’s a show that’s suddenly all over your tumblr dash, and you think, what…

10 Things We Loved About ‘Any Way The Wind Blows’

Any Way The Wind Blows – the third and final book in Rainbow Rowell’s Simon Snow trilogy – was one of our most anticipated reads of 2021, and it did not disappoint. I, for one, devoured the book in about…

There’s A Free Shadowhunter Chronicles Series Coming This August!

One of the best things about being a fan of The Shadowhunter Chronicles is just how much content there is. You can stick with just the four (eventually five) main series and not miss much, but if you’re looking for…

What You Need To Know Before Reading ‘Any Way The Wind Blows’

The third and final book in Rainbow Rowell’s Simon Snow trilogy comes out this Tuesday, and we could not be more excited. This was one of our most anticipated books of 2021, promising to wrap up the stories of some…

8 Of Our Favourite Video Essayists on YouTube

With social media such a big part of our lives, it’s never been easier to get your opinion out there, and that can be both a good thing and a bad thing. With so much content being produced and so…

Cassandra Clare Shares Thomastair Art, Chain of Thorns Snippet in June Newsletter

I have to say that this time of year is always the worst time to be a fan of The Shadowhunter Chronicles. We’re still stuck in that endless wait between Shadowhunter novels, with the hype from Chain of Iron having…

Rick Riordan Updates Us On The ‘Percy Jackson’ Disney+ Show

Ever since Rick Riordan and Disney+ first announced that a Percy Jackson and the Olympians TV show was in the works, fans of the book series have been waiting with bated breath for any kind of information about the adaptation.…

Listen to all the songs from Bo Burnham’s ‘Inside’!

Bo Burnham‘s Netflix special Inside is an absolute masterpiece, by far the most accurate representation of pandemic life I’ve seen so far. I know I’m not the only person who’s spent the last few weeks unable to stop thinking about…

Why ‘Teen Wolf’ Still Holds Up, 10 Years Later

Last Saturday marked ten years since the premiere of MTV’s Teen Wolf. I, like so many people who watched the show while it was on the air, was overcome with nostalgia as I watched tributes pour in across social media…

Advanced Review: ‘This Poison Heart’ by Kalynn Bayron

This Poison Heart is the first book in a new series from Kalynn Bayron, the author of Cinderella is Dead. It follows a teenage girl named Briseis who has a natural affinity for plants. She has always been able to…