Books are our pathway to a different world. They keep us going. They keep us focused. They take us away from the world around us. One book that we have been loving lately is Daughter of the Pirate King. Here’s…
Turning the Pages: Daughter of the Pirate King by Tricia Levenseller
Title: Daughter of the Pirate King Author: Tricia Levenseller Our Blurb: A fast paced page turner that will having you screaming as you turn to the last page, “WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?” Synopsis: A 17-year-old pirate captain intentionally allows herself to…
Turning the Pages: Empress of a Thousand Skies Review
Title: Empress of a Thousand Skies Author: Rhoda Belleza Publisher: Razorbill Author Bio: Rhoda Belleza was raised in Los Angeles, where she grew up writing X-Files fan fiction and stuffing her face with avocados. She’s a children’s editor at…
Diversity in Fiction: Goodbye to Stereotypes
In a recent Criminology lecture that I attended, the discussion turned to the harmful effects of media reporting on crime rates, specifically, how the repetitions of certain racist phrases contributed to Canadian and American citizens believing that crime rates were increasing…
Kami Garcia and Jonathan Maberry Discuss Their Favorite X-Files Episodes
It’s Tuesday, so you know what that means – new books. Releasing today are two books that any X-Files fan needs to get their hands on – The X-Files Origins: Agent of Chaos and The X-Files Origins: Devil’s Advocate. We…
Perrie Edwards Confirms That Zayn Malik Broke Up With Her Via Text
The thing about todays world is you can really offer up receipts for anything. If people put anything in writing and sometimes, even if they don’t – you can produce the proof that someone has done something, said something or…
Sarah J. Maas’ Throne of Glass Series Headed to Hulu
Sarah J. Mass’ fans rejoice! The Throne of Glass series is headed to Hulu! The streaming service is developing Queen of Shadows, an epic fantasy adventure TV series based on the books. The Mark Gordon Company will serve as the…
Three Dark Crowns Just Didn’t Hit Home For Me
Where do I begin? When I read a book – 9 times out of 10 know what I am getting in to. However, when I sat down to read Three Dark Crowns – I didn’t know what I was getting…
Roman Crazy Is The Romance Book We Didn’t Know We Needed
Love. No matter which way you slice it, at times it’s the hardest thing in the world and at times it’s the easiest. It’s a mixture. It’s part of the reason that I am a huge fan of Christina…
Exclusive Interview with After Series author Anna Todd
Anna Todd understands fandom. Giving how she got her start, this should come as no surprise to anyone reading. In a way, she’s still one of us. And yet, as refreshing as reading her books is, as thrilling as following…
Books that made me who I am
I grew up on books. Books raised me. Or, my parents raised me, but they did so with the help of a lot of books. There was never a forbidden topic in my house when I was growing up, nor…
We Talk With Author Ilana Manaster About ‘Doreen’
Authors are our people. We were excited to sit and talk to Ilana Manaster about her book Doreen. Here’s the synopsis: If Doreen Gray were to take a selfie upon her arrival at the elite ChandlerAcademy, it would capture a…
Author Catherine Egan Interview: We’re Talking ‘Julia Vanishes’
As you all know, we’re big fans of authors and we love talking to them. We have the honor of speaking with Catherine Egan as part of her blog tour for Julia Vanishes. The book, which was released on June…
We Talk With ‘Breaker’ Author, Kat Ellis
Books are amazing. They give insight to new worlds. Some are worlds that we are used to and some are worlds that we aren’t. Now, I will admit – that books about serial killers, ghosts, and anything scary – well,…
What Exactly Is A “True” Fan?
If you ask Google for a definition (and isn’t that how we all get our definitions?) of “true fan” a handy little box pops up at the top of the results, and what it says is this: A true fan is somebody…
Cassie Clare To Publish New Series All About Magnus Bane
The Bane Chronicles were amazing and grew our never ending love for Magnus. Now, we have more to look forward to. It was announced this AM that Cassie Clare will be releasing a new series, all about Magnus Bane. The…
The Myth of Fanservice
I contemplated starting this piece with a definition. We can’t talk of a subject we don’t understand, after all. I decided against it for one particular reason: we all think we know what fanservice is all about. Not only that,…
What’re You Reading: Damien Darhk from ‘Arrow’
Fangirlish writers adore their fictional characters. We all have our favorites from a variety of television shows especially. So in a fit of genius or insanity because we are all fannishly busy stressing over making sure readers have preview guides, recaps and…
What’re You Reading: Simon Lewis From ‘Shadowhunters’
Fangirlish writers adore their fictional characters. We all have our favorites from a variety of television shows especially. So in a fit of genius or insanity because we are all fannishly busy stressing over making sure readers have preview guides, recaps and…
What’re You Reading: Octavia Blake from ‘The 100’
Fangirlish writers adore their fictional characters. We all have our favorites from a variety of television shows especially. So in a fit of genius or insanity because we are all fannishly busy stressing over making sure readers have preview guides,…
What’re You Reading: Cat Grant from ‘Supergirl’
Fangirlish writers adore their fictional characters. We all have our favorites from a variety of television shows especially. So in a fit of genius or insanity because we are all fannishly busy stressing over making sure readers have preview guides, recaps…
