A beautiful new edition of Moreno-Garcia's stunning debut, featuring an illustrated cover by legendary artist Jim Tierney
Mexico City, 1988. Long before iTunes or MP3s, you said "I love you" with a mixtape. Meche, awkward and fifteen, discovers how to cast spells using music, and with her friends Sebastian and Daniela will piece together their broken families, and even find love...
Two decades after abandoning the metropolis, Meche returns for her estranged father's funeral, reviving memories from her childhood she thought she buried a long time ago. What really happened back then? Is there any magic left?
Silvia Moreno-Garcia is the author of the novels Velvet Was the Night, Mexican Gothic, Gods of Jade and Shadow, and a bunch of other books. She has also edited several anthologies, including the World Fantasy Award-winning She Walks in Shadows (a.k.a. Cthulhu’s Daughters).
The end of 2015 marks the completion of this blog’s first year of existence, and what a year to start with: we can’t remember the last 12-month period that gave us such a strong run of new science fiction and fantasy books, spanning every subgenre on the shelves. Below, we’ve selected 25 of our favorites—these […]
This week’s new releases prove magic is nothing to mess with. Sure, it seems like using your ability to alter the world through music is a good idea—until you’re addicted to using it like a drug, or banished into exile for a quarter-century, or turned into an uncontrollable fiend. Be careful out there, kids.
In the city of Guerdon, the church bells ring with the cries of long-conquered gods, saints and alchemists wage war in the streets, and armageddon is all but at hand. A trio of misfit thieves is all that stands against a complex network of competing gods and mages—and the destruction they will wreak. To commemorate […]
There is often an awfulness to pretty things. Roses have their thorns, poetry its dirges, Shakespeare his tragedies. Even the prettiest people hide their own ugly little secrets.
A good Halloween read must embody number of key qualities: dark, of course, but not too bleak, with a little pep in its step, and a touch of gallows humor or black comedy. Maybe it’s scary, or maybe it revels in a milder form of spooky. The best Halloween books deal in monsters and lore, often keeping one […]
