In I Am Not Starfire, Mandy Anders, the teenage daughter of superhero single mom Starfire, is pretty damn relatable. Not the “daughter of a superhero” part, but everything else.
REVIEW: A Psalm for the Wild-Built Is a Balm for the Mild Guilt
The most wholesomely self-indulgent thing you can do this summer is stretch out with A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Becky Chambers’ new novella about a travelling monk philosophizing with a thoughtful robot. Go ahead and nestle into a functional utopia for a little while—pour yourself a cup of tea and enjoy it.
REVIEW: The Mystery of The Meanest Teacher Makes John Constantine Endearing
Kid Constantine is the only person in his world who can do magic. Naturally, he uses that ability to dimension hop into a much better candy store than he has locally. Here he immediately steals and eats the most delicious chocolate in the multiverse, only to discover that this is the eternal chocolate that keeps…
The Witness for the Dead Spoiler-Free Review
The Witness for the Dead, Katherine Addison’s much anticipated follow up to The Goblin Emperor, is an engrossing murder mystery in a richly imagined world.
A WWAC Guide To Gumroad Day
Today is Gumroad Day, the day when the indie publishing platform lets creators take home 100% of all sales made on their site. In the interest of that, we here at WWAC thought we’d share a few of our favorite recommendations!
Murderbot Doesn’t Love Parenting. Murderbot Just Wants to Watch Its Shows.
With the upcoming release of Fugitive Telemetry, the sixth book in the Murderbot Diaries series by Martha Wells, I have been thinking about how Murderbot explores more and more of what it means to be a person in each book. Specifically, I’m thinking about the family relationships it encounters and participates in in Network Effect,…
WWAC Reads!
If you’d like a reading recommendation of any kind, WWAC has your back. Here at WWAC, our recent voracious reading has been varied. Lots of us have been cozying up with recent celebrated speculative fiction, WWAC Boss Publisher Wendy Browne has been delving into nonfiction, and I recently read an exciting Young Adult novel that…
REVIEW: House of El: The Shadow Threat
House of El: The Shadow Threat had me hooked almost immediately, and if you want to see likable young adults try to save their society, this is the tightly plotted, fast-paced, and lushly illustrated book for you.
Fugitive Telemetry lets Murderbot Crack the Case: Spoiler-free Review
Fugitive Telemetry, the sixth Murderbot book in the bestselling science fiction series by Martha Wells, has the beats I love from locked room murder mysteries and procedural crime dramas, and it has the voice and themes I love from the Murderbot series. It’s just as engaging and affirming as the rest of the series has…
REVIEW: Recent Reads from DC Kids: Everyone Gets an Origin Story!
Lately, I’ve been catching up on a year’s worth of DC’s graphic novels for kids and teens, growing more and more attached to checking out graphic novels digitally from my library systems, and becoming well-versed in the sprawling stories radiating outwards from Gotham and Metropolis. Perhaps understandably, most of these feel like origin stories, hinting…
REVIEW: Fangs is a Sharp and Cozy Package
If you like your seasonal spookiness kind and romantic, then Fangs by Sarah Andersen will be just right for you. In a series of punchlined pages, it gently tells the story of a vampire and a werewolf dating and finding out just how compatible they are.
REVIEW: Folktales and Family Collide in The Magic Fish
I’ve been enchanted by Trung Le Nguyen’s art since I saw his travel journal comics on Twitter in February of 2019 so I was really excited to see the announcement for his debut graphic novel, The Magic Fish.
