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One Last Stop, the sophomore speculative queer romance from Casey McQuiston (of Red, White, and Royal Blue notoriety) is about August Landry, a bisexual disaster who runs away from her controlling mother and towards NYU, hoping that maybe she’ll figure out a major before she graduates. She gets a job, three quirky housemates, and an instant Big Lesbian Crush on the very hot butch woman she runs into on the subway. And then August keeps running into her. Over and over again. Same place, any t...

Rule of Wolves is a book that reads less like a pack of wolves growling at succession and more like a group of super zoomy dogs at a park after winter. The plot runs around, the characters rarely stay still, and you’re left unsure of whose lead to follow, but like, great for these dogs, honestly, they’re just like, really, happy to be here. The seventh book in the Grishaverse series and the follow-up novel to King of Scars, Rule of Wolves trails after young King Nikolai in his pursuit of ...

The Shadow and Bone Netflix series is so close we can almost touch Ben Barnes’ scruffy 5 o’clock shadow he’s been effortlessly maintaining. With a rich fantasy world that author Leigh Bardugo has styled ‘Tsarpunk’, the Shadow and Bone series is full of engaging characters, elemental magic, and, of course, a hell of a lot of darkness. As Netflix adapts the first five books of the Grishaverse into a show, we’ve only gotten hints about what the content’s going to be like, and where ...

A group of friends lean in; it’s the final battle, the end of an epic campaign, years in the making. The only thing that stands between them and the ultimate triumph of good over evil is the roll of a single die… Well, that’s how Dungeons and Dragons does it, anyway. But genre games are as varied as genre fiction, and most don’t require the time or monetary investment that a thick, rules-heavy D&D campaign often asks for. The stories told around the table (or over Zoom!) with your adve...

Earlier this year,  A Memory Called Empire author Arkady Martine appeared in conversation with Amal El-Mohtar, co-author of  This Is How You Lose the Time War, as part of the Brooklyn Book Festival. Now, you can watch their conversation at your leisure: El-Mohtar has posted the video of their discussion to YouTube. A Memory Called Empire, the first book in Martine’s Teixcalaan series, was published last year to widespread acclaim; it won the Hugo Award for Best Novel, and was nominated for ...