6 articles in the library
V.E. Schwab opens Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil with a statement of intention so direct that it reads almost like a warning: "This is a story about hunger." Everything that…
The opening paragraph of Daughter of Crows — Mark Lawrence's first novel in his new Academy of Kindness trilogy, published March 2026 — announces what the book intends to be witho…
Joe Abercrombie's last novel set in the First Law world appeared in 2021. In the four years since, the genre moved around him, absorbed some of his sharpest ideas into its own evo…
There is a moment, roughly a hundred pages into The Lies of Locke Lamora , when you realise that you are not reading what you thought you were reading. The setup has been charming…
Every few years, a book about money sells thirty million copies. People underline sentences in it. They leave it on their desks where clients might notice. They recommend it to si…
Lauren J. A. Bear’s Aphrodite in Pieces offers a striking and intimate reimagining of one of mythology’s most iconic figures. Rather than presenting Aphrodite as the distant, unto…
