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1 month ago | 
reactormag.com | Alex Brown |Christina Orlando
“There is an art to smiling in a way that others will believe. It is always important to include the eyes; otherwise, people will know you hate them.”
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
bookcrushin.com | Alex Brown |Kate Pearsall |Katya de Becerra |Kelly BookCrushin
Why on Earth: An Alien Invasion Anthology edited by Rosie Thor & Vania Stoyanova should be on your radar, because nothing says escapism *in these times* as much as aliens! Like literally…beam me up, get me away from here! đ Also, I just love anthologies, reading short stories feels so accomplishing…not too much filler – story gets right to the point…I might be weird. Also, the cover is gorgeous!! Plus, nothing like some alien invasion to help you realize your identity and love.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
reactormag.com | Alex Brown
As glad as I am to see the last of 2024, I’m also not exactly looking forward to 2025. So let’s stay here in the cozy liminal space of transition a little longer, shall we? It may be January, but I’m here to shout about ten excellent short science fiction, fantasy, and horror stories I read from December (and a couple from November and October that I missed). We’ve got monsters, murder, and queer angst. Our narrator’s tío has a book that changes as he ages.
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
reactormag.com | Alex Brown
Nobody does revolutions and rebellions quite like young adult science fiction and fantasy. In YA, teens are always rising up against their overlords and taking down empires. Adult fiction tends to have a lot of hemming and hawing over what to do and how to do it, but YA fiction tends to get right to the overthrowing. Someone hands a kid a sword and shoves them in the direction of the imperial figurehead or the kid steals a sword and charges off of some hastily patched together plan.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
reactormag.com | Alex Brown
And we’re back with the second installment of the Martha Wells Book Club. This time we’re diving into books two and three of the Raksura series, The Serpent Sea and The Siren Depths. I was eager to get back to Moon, Jade, Chime, and the rest of my adorable flying lizard people, and these two books hit all my expectations. “Moon had been consort to Jade, sister queen of the Indigo Cloud Court, for eleven days and nobody had tried to kill him yet.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
reactormag.com | Alex Brown
Will you join me on a journey down, down, down the road, down the Witches’ Road? Where all that’s wrong is right and all that’s bad is good? I’m sure you can tell, but I’m a wee bit obsessed with wicked witches as of late. I wandered high and low to find these five witchy titles—sorry not sorry about all the Agatha All Along references, you’re just gonna have to deal with it.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
reactormag.com | Alex Brown |Alison Stine
The end of the year is a pretty slow time for traditional publishing when it comes to young adult speculative fiction. No new trends to report, so fans of vampires and romantasy, this is still your rodeo. That said, there are also some interesting things happening with historical fantasy. The pickings get slim in November and December, but there’s still plenty to get excited about. Here are the twelve YA science fiction, fantasy, and horror books coming up that I’m eagerly awaiting.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
reactormag.com | Alex Brown
Horror should be read all year long, but especially in October. Where I live, October is the month where you can feel the season’s change. Things cool off and the light turns golden in the afternoon. The fog rolls in, the rain returns, and the leaves turn brown and fall (mostly on the non-native trees, but still). October is when I revisit my favorite slashers and monster movies. And it’s also when short fiction magazines start cranking out the horror stories.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
reactormag.com | Alex Brown |Susanna Clarke
I’m back with more reading recommendations, this time for television characters who should probably spend less time trying to kill people and more time with a good book. I don’t know if you’re as obsessed with Agatha All Along as I am—raise your hand if you’ve had “The Witches Road” stuck on repeat in their head for the last several weeks—but it has completely taken over my life. This motley coven is living rent free in my brain, with no intention of leaving anytime soon.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
bookcrushin.com | Alex Brown |Amber Clement |A.S. King |Z.R. Ellor
Young Adult New Releases October 15th 2024 We have hit the middle of October and we have a big release day, with over 15 YA books hitting shelves today – check them out below – and you can catch the rest of the month’s releases on our Bookshop page, and if you are still looking for some Halloweeny vibes we have a curated list for that too! The Shadow Road by K.D. Kirchmeier Published by: Bloomsbury YA Genres: Fantasy , Sci-Fi , Young Adult Bookshop Goodreads A tale of survival as dragon-like...
