After reading and enjoying The Name of the Star last year, I was looking forward to, even if I wasn’t exactly highly anticipating, its sequel, The Madness Underneath. I figured it would be another procedural for Rory and the ghost-busting…
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The Young Folks’ Best Books of 2013
The Young Folks team has come together to list the very best in entertainment and pop culture for the year 2013! From Eleanor and Park to the Bloodlines series, our tastes in books may slightly differ, but there’s no…
Audiobook Review: ‘The Runaway Queen’ by Cassandra Clare & Maureen Johnson
The second installment of The Bane Chronicles offers up a better story with a different look at the Magnus Bane we all love. The Runaway Queen follows Magnus in France during the French Revolution. Magnus loves France and everything the…
Audiobook Review: ‘What Really Happened in Peru’ by Cassandra Clare & Sarah Rees Brennan
In collaboration with authors Sarah Rees Brennan (Unspoken) and Maureen Johnson (Shades of London), Cassandra Clare is releasing a ten part series of novellas about different adventures in Magnus Bane’s long and quite interesting immortal life. The first of The…
Book News: Clare, Brennan, and Johnson to Pen The Bane Chronicles
Last week, the trio of Cassandra Clare (the Mortal Instruments and Infernal Devices series), Sarah Rees Brennan (the Demon’s Lexicon trilogy, Unspoken), and Maureen Johnson (the 13 Little Blue Envelopes duology, the Shades of London series) teased that they had…
Book Review: ‘The Name of the Star’ by Maureen Johnson
Sometimes when a need a little more convincing to a buy a book, I read the praising blurbs on the front or back cover. The Name of the Star had three of these blurbs, all from authors I am familiar…
‘The Essex Serpent’ series premiere review: Fear and faith anchor a moody historical drama
Fear grips the coast of England in Apple TV+’s new miniseries The Essex Serpent. But does fear divide people, or unite them? The first two episodes, “The Blackwater” and “Matters of the Heart,” give us a more complicated answer to that…