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1 week ago | 
bookriot.com | Chris Arnone
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Ah, Lumberjanes. Coming out of Boom! Studios’ Boom! Box imprint, the premise was simple enough. Five girls bunking in a cabin at summer camp. Friendship and hijinks ensue. Except Lumberjanes was so much more than that.
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2 weeks ago | 
bookriot.com | Chris Arnone
How is it that we’re already more than a quarter of the way through 2025? I’m ahead of my reading goals and still feel so far behind at the same time. I’ve packed in plenty of poetry, though, finding lots of wonderful and surprising voices emerging. It’s early, but totally time to check in with some of the best new poetry collections of 2025 so far. It’s funny how timely these collections are.
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1 month ago | 
bookriot.com | Chris Arnone
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. I’ve been a fantasy reader for as long as I can remember. I’m pretty much always up for an adventure that features magic, fantastical creatures like dragons, and clashing swords. I’m here for urban and portal fantasies, too. If there’s magic afoot, I’ll give it a try.
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1 month ago | 
bookriot.com | Cosimo Yap |Chris Arnone
Seth Ring and Blackstone PublishingWanting to follow in his heroic family’s footsteps, Mark Fields is eager to join the military and defend the massive fortress city he calls home. Then his older brother returns from deployment a burned-out wreck. As Mark quickly rises to the top of his unit and loves his new life, he doesn’t notice the dangerous friends his brother is making—until it’s too late.
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1 month ago | 
audible.com | Chris Arnone
Don't miss the sci-fi romp that inspired one of 2025's biggest blockbusters. Soon to hit the big screen is Mickey 17, the science fiction adventure directed by Academy Award winner Bong Joon-ho (Parasite, Snowpiercer) and starring Robert Pattinson (Twilight, The Batman). But you don't need to wait until you’re seated in the theater to dig into this fun film—you can dive in to the story that inspired the blockbuster right now. So, what is Mickey 17 about?
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1 month ago | 
audible.com | Chris Arnone
Catch up on everything we already know about the Hunger Games victor and mentor before his full backstory is revealed in "Sunrise on the Reaping". Suzanne Collins's The Hunger Games series is filled with complex characters. While the first three books, brilliantly narrated by Tatiana Maslany, focused primarily on Katniss Everdeen, another character captured much attention and curiosity—Haymitch Abernathy. Fans eager for Abernathy’s backstory won’t have to wait too much longer.
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1 month ago | 
bookriot.com | Chris Arnone
Head of ZeusIn his darkly fantastic re-imagining of ancient India, Gourav Mohanty dangles a vibrant cast of dubious heroes from the threads of fate. A fragile armistice may hold in the West, but everyone knows it cannot last. In the Tree Cities of the East, a Conclave of Peace has assembled to secure the future of the realm. But the delegates—deaf swordswomen and exiled snakelings, spoiled heroes and lovesick princes, immortal assassins and their apprentices—will find no sun to light their path.
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1 month ago | 
flipboard.com | Chris Arnone
NowDaisy Edgar Jones' sequin micro shorts are so short, they're basically knickersWe have long considered Daisy Edgar Jones the unofficial queen of the micro shorts trend. After all, this is the woman who essentially tore up the red carpet rule book when she wore high-shine Gucci hotpants to the 2024 BAFTAs. No surprise, it was one of the best looks of the evening. She also …2 hours agoWe could soon end wrinkles and grey hair forever, study suggests.
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2 months ago | 
bookriot.com | Chris Arnone
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. DC Comics has been using the Absolute monicker for a while now. Usually, it’s in reference to large, hardcover, deluxe editions of its comic book stories. Ever since October of last year, though, Scott Snyder has overseen a new part of the DC Comics multiverse: DC Comics’ Absolute Universe.
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2 months ago | 
bookriot.com | Kentaro Miura |Chris Arnone
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. There’s often a wish-fulfillment aspect to fantasy worlds. We’ve all read the books and series that make us wish we could live in that world, that we could wield magic or ride dragons or just live a more fantastical life. Some fantasy books, though, go the other way.
