Read of the Week: ‘Rain’ (Paper Gods #2) by Amanda Sun

American Katie Green has decided to stay in Japan. She’s started to build a life in the city of Shizuoka, and she can’t imagine leaving behind her friends, her aunt and especially Tomohiro, the guy she’s fallen in love with.…

Book Review: Ink (Paper Gods #1) by Amanda Sun

When you read a lot of books, especially YA, sometimes they tend to blur altogether. A book needs a certain quality to stand out amongst the rapidly growing genre, and Amanda Sun’s new book, Ink, definitely has that. Ink’s backdrop…

Read of the Week: ‘Joyride’ by Anna Banks

A popular guy and a shy girl with a secret become unlikely accomplices for midnight pranking, and are soon in over their heads—with the law and with each other—in this sparkling standalone from NYT-bestselling author Anna Banks. It’s been years…

Top 10 YA 2013 Summer Releases

Summer’s right around the corner, and aside from all the catching up you’ll have to be doing thanks to our list of YA Summer Reads, there’ll be plenty of newbies out just in time, too! With genres all across the…

‘Magic The Gathering’ and ‘Warhammer 40K’ join for an unstoppable force in TCG history

The first big release of Magic the Gathering’s new crossover series, Universes Beyond, sees the joining of two of the biggest properties in tabletop gaming. We now approach a nexus of events which may leave people confused. Longtime Magic the…

The 60 best LGBTQ+ films of the 21st Century so far

While Queer films have been in existence for the entirety of cinema (here’s a great article about some of the earliest examples at the Nerdist), there’s certainly been a notable—or perhaps, simply more highlighted—boom in LGBTQ+ storytelling in the 21st…

The Best Enemies-to-Lovers Romances, Recommended by Our Favorite Authors

Ah, the enemies-to-lovers trope. In my opinion, a true god-tier trope. Done well, this trope propels any book into instant favorites. And who doesn’t love…