Emily Woo Zeller and Cynthia Farrell’s dual narrations emphasize the divergent personalities of two time-traveling protagonists. Coolly portrayed by Farrell, Red sneers as she sees Blue, her foe, across a burning field. Red realizes that her attempt to alter the future was foiled by Blue, an agent of the opposition in an ongoing war that moves through time. Then, Red receives a letter from Blue—read in a taunting tone by Zeller—and the agents begin a cryptic correspondence as they sabotage each other’s missions. The two narrators deliver the rich and lyrical letters with increasing passion as each agent falls in love with her enemy. We hear their pain as they must choose between betraying each other—or their agencies. Listen, then listen again to unravel this intricate story, beautifully narrated. E.E.C. © AudioFile 2019, Portland, Maine
We swoon for a tale about the book world. How could we not? Look at the website you’re visiting! And, after dipping into Ashley Poston’s adult debut you will fall in love with this book as well. Poston’s got our number. We’ve got Poston’s The Dead Romantics; two perfect matches made for readers like you. For more perfect matches of books Poston and her characters recommend, keep reading!
“At any given time, there’s a choir of ideas and nagging voices in my head — chatter that I had to contend with I guess — in the end it ends up with this model of working and living in which everything is happening simultaneously.” Aleksandar Hemon, author of National Book Award Finalist The Lazarus […]
We’re done looking back at the best sci-fi and fantasy, horror, comics, and manga of 2018. Now we turn our gaze to the year ahead: here are the new sci-fi and fantasy books coming in 2019 that our team of bloggers and reviewers can’t wait to read. What’s your most-anticipated SFF book of 2019?
A little over one year ago, we brought you the first word of This Is How You Lose the Time War, a jointly written novella of temporal warfare and timeline-cross’d romance co-written by award-winning authors Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone. Today, we’re pleased to close that loop (a small time travel joke, y’all) with another […]
As we do every year, we’re looking ahead to the next 12 months new science fiction and fantasy books—with the help of the editors and publishers responsible for bringing them to our shelves each and every week. Here are 105 (or maybe more, depending on how you count…) new books they can’t wait for you […]
