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Apr 5, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Katy Rose Pool |Laura Nowlin
A heavy read about the harsh realities of tragedy and their effects on those left behind. In this companion novel to 2013’s If He Had Been With Me, three characters tell their sides of the story. Finn’s narrative starts three days before his death. He explores the progress of his unrequited love for best friend Autumn up until the day he finally expresses his feelings. Finn’s story ends with his tragic death, which leaves his close friends devastated, unmoored, and uncertain how to go on.
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Jun 1, 2023 | 
tor.com | Katy Rose Pool
No matter how many cases she solves, Marlow Briggs is still haunted by the mystery of her mother’s disappearance…We’re thrilled to share an excerpt from Garden of the Cursed by Katy Rose Pool, out from Henry Holt and Co. on June 20. Marlow wondered, as her pulse thundered in her head, which god in the Pantheon of the Ever-Drowning Mangrove she’d pissed off this time. Because clearly, someone was out to ruin her life. “What, no hello?” Adrius asked, swinging his legs off the desk.
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May 22, 2023 | 
bookishfirst.com | Katy Rose Pool
filled star filled star filled star filled star star unfilled (233) Print copy Since fleeing the gilded halls of Evergarden for the muck-filled canals of the Marshes, Marlow Briggs has made a name for herself as the best cursebreaker in Caraza City. But no matter how many cases she solves, she is still haunted by the mystery of her mother’s disappearance.
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Apr 20, 2023 | 
publishersweekly.com | Kalynn Bayron |Thien Pham |Katy Rose Pool
Frightening thrills and bloody kills abound in this meta twist on classic horror films from Bayron (This Wicked Fate). Black teenage lesbian Charity has spent the last few summers as a counselor at Camp Mirror Lake, a terror-simulation experience in which guests pay to be scared by participating in recreations of scenes from the 1980s cult classic The Curse of Camp Mirror Lake.
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Apr 20, 2023 | 
publishersweekly.com | Thien Pham |Katy Rose Pool
Maggie C. Rudd. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $17.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-3743-9033-4Rudd (I’ll Hold Your Hand) weaves an uplifting tale of connection and found family featuring an unhoused tween. Twelve-year-old, white-cued Raymond is used to his unreliable parents constantly moving house. So when he starts at yet another middle school—this time in River Mill, N.C.—he does what he does best: keeps his head down and tries to stay invisible.
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Apr 20, 2023 | 
publishersweekly.com | Julia Sarcone-Roach |Thien Pham |Katy Rose Pool
Julia Sarcone-Roach. Knopf, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-5933-0985-8When snack-obsessed Squirrel, convinced it has a magical ability to make tasty treats disappear, finds a dropped ice cream cone, it enlists as its assistant Bear, who takes long enough to awaken that the frozen treat vanishes from (i.e., melts on) a sun-warmed rock. But the two soon stumble on the perfect stage for further prestidigitation: an ice cream truck momentarily abandoned by its human owner.
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Apr 20, 2023 | 
publishersweekly.com | Katy Rose Pool |Thien Pham
Garden of the Cursed (Garden of the Cursed #1)Pool (the Age of Darkness trilogy) fuses fantasy, mystery, and romance in this transfixing duology opener set in Caraza City, where spellcraft knowledge is regulated by the politically powerful Five Families. Because of her mother’s station as the right hand of a Five Families patriarch, Marlow Briggs leads a privileged life learning spellcraft alongside the families’ young elites.
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Apr 20, 2023 | 
publishersweekly.com | Heather Fawcett |Thien Pham |Katy Rose Pool
The Islands of ElsewhereArriving from Vancouver to the tiny town of Misty Cove with their mother and baby brother Theodore, a trio of sisters become immediately enchanted with their ailing grandfather’s bluff-situated property, which overlooks the sea and includes the Fairy Islands: Fairy, Little Fairy, and Ghost.
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Apr 20, 2023 | 
publishersweekly.com | Thien Pham |Katy Rose Pool
Gabi Burton. Bloomsbury, $19.99 (432p) ISBN 978-1-5476-1037-2Seventeen-year-old Saoirse Sorkova is a beautiful, brown-skinned siren, believed extinct in the fae-ruled Kingdom of Keirdre. As a siren, she can feel and taste emotions as well as ensnare men’s minds, and she also grapples with an insatiable need to kill. Saoirse hides her lineage and lives in secret among Keirdre’s fae, witch, and human denizens, only sharing her powers with her multi-species family.
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Apr 20, 2023 | 
publishersweekly.com | Tracey Baptiste |Cedella Marley |Thien Pham |Katy Rose Pool
In Baptiste’s sweet tale of oceanic connection, a mermaid and a pirate, each portrayed with brown skin, exult in storms. “She liked to roll with the waves and dance to the beat of the rain on the sea.... He liked how the wind whipped the water and snapped the ropes.” When lightning breaks the mast of the pirate’s ship, and both beings move to secure it, the mermaid becomes tangled in the pirate’s net.
