Fueled by seething rage and unquenchable desire in the peasant-turned-mech-pilot, Wu Zetian, Xiran Jay Zhao devastates in their YA science fiction debut, Iron Widow. Drawing from Chinese culture – social, political, religious – Zhao blends brutal reality with mythology, unleashing a powerhouse in ...
Young Adult
Darkly Dreaming Disasters: Maggie Stiefvater Examines Art, Emotion and Belonging in Intricately Plotted and Explosive, ‘Mister Impossible’
Maggie Stiefvater writes with vibrancy, bringing scenes to life with crisp, impeccable detail, building layer upon layer to create exquisite scenes, words turned into art. From bland, seemingly endless farmland, to impossibly dreamed objects, not to mention the dreams themselves – decadent, ...