Well, the news has been a bit cuckoo lately and overflowing with talk of COVID-19. I’m in Japan and my brother is in Korea, and we’re right in the throes of it. But life must continue on, and I must continue with our weekly tradition: it’s time to dive into the Roundup!
Monday
Chris Cannon is our guest for My Favorite Things, and we’re celebrating her latest release with Entangled Teen — Demon Bound, the first book in the Crossroads Chronicles series. What can you expect from this week’s offering? How about an invite to the Feast of Feasts, a 15-year paranormal series with everyone’s favorite brothers, and classic snark that’s a stake through the heart! For more, you know where to look!
Tuesday
Ronya writes some excellent recommendations for books to broaden your horizons. The canon of authors and their fiction have not changed over the decades, and the works of white men dominate. But as Ronya says, “The default is a lie” — so it’s time to read authors that reflect the reality of the world we live in: one that is diverse and bigger than you can imagine. Read more here.
Wednesday
Kendra reviews K.D. Edwards‘s The Hanged Man, the second book in The Tarot Sequence. This series “imagines a modern-day Atlantis off the coast of Massachusetts, governed by powerful Courts based on the traditional Tarot deck.” After Kendra’s first outing in this series, how did the second one fare? Consult the cards here.
Also for Wednesday, we have special guest author Jus Accardo for You’re My Inspiration, the series ” dedicated to discovering what inspires a particular author and their work.” This time we’re taken a closer look at the influences behind her upcoming release Transcendent. the final book in the Denazen series. What can you expect? Comic books, Buffy, and music, oh my!
Thursday
J.L. continues her Disney+ resolution by knocking through the House of Mouse’s old catalog. For this post she’s covering the 2015 TV musical Descendants, which takes the kids of famous villains — Maleficent, the Evil Queen, Cruella de Vil, and Jafar — and follows them through high school. What’s the moral of this story? Follow the fairytale here.
Friday
We’ve just posted our Book Club Discussion for February! I‘m hosting Jeremy C. Shipp‘s The Atrocities! There’s still time to contribute to the conversation, and you can do so here.
Book Club
Here’s a reminder for what’s on the horizon:
- March — An Illusion of Thieves by Cate Glass, hosted by Kendra Merritt
- April — Steel Crow Saga by Paul Krueger, hosted by Nancy O’Toole Meservier
- May — The Tethered Mage by Melissa Caruso, hosted by Lane Robins
- June — Midnight at the Blackbird Cafe by Heather Webber, hosted by Kelly McCarty
If you want to know more about the book choices above, read here and here, and we’ll see you soon for next month’s Book Club!
Robert Frost famously wrote, “Some say the world will end in fire. Some say in ice.” Considering many people are crying out that we’re in a dystopia and will eventually turn on each other, or we’ll be annihilated by a plague, the world is on its way out. How do you think we’re going to go? If you were trapped in an apocalypse from any book, game, movie, or TV series, which one would you choose? If you’ve got answers, I’d like to see them, and we’ll see you next week.
Don’t worry; it won’t end like this.
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