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  • Recommended reading: Mary HK Choi, Jaime Questell, Catherynne M. Valente

      Emergecy Contact by Mary H.K. Choi  Emergecy Contact by Mary H.K. Choi is an absolute joy. Calling it a love story seems wrong, it’s more like a friendship story of two people who fall in love. And I enjoyed it so very much. Penny is an aspiring writer in her first year of college…

  • Book Review- The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter by Theodora Goss

    Book Review- The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter by Theodora Goss

    Monsters, mysteries and mayhem! Right out of a penny dreadful, The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter is a fun, enjoyable romp through the Victorian classics with a feminist twist. Take Dr Jekyll’s daughter, Mr Hyde’s daughter, Frankenstein’s daughter, a poisoner’s daughter, and an intelligent cat woman, put them all together and you get The…

  • Recommended Reads: JK Rowling, Aline Brosh McKenna, Anna Marie McLemore

    First published in Cinders Magazine Volume one Issue Six Cormoran Strike Series What with the BBC’s recent release of Strike: The Cuckcoo’s Calling and Strike: The Silkworm, we decided to revisit JK Rowling’s fantastic detective series. Writing as Robert Galbraith the series follows veteran private detective Cormoran Strike and his intelligent partner, Robin Ellacott. Rowling’s…

  • Book Review: The Extinction Trials by SM Wilson

    The Extinction Trials have been hailed as ‘Jurassic Park’ meets ‘The Hunger Games’ and that phrase definitely rings true, however the bell might sound a bit too loudly. Stormchaser Knox is a young woman who lives in a world that is ravaged by disease and poverty, over which part of it has been taken over…

  • Book Review: Owning It by Caroline Foran

    Caroline Foran’s Owning It has swept onto our shelves and excited new readers. Anxiety is something that we are all familiar with, whether in ourselves or in another person’s point of view. Anxiety has a place in our world now and it’s very welcome to have a book from someone who has experienced it for…

  • Best books of 2017 part two

      The Language of Thorns by Leigh Bardugo Leigh Bardugo is a perennial favourite of ours in Cinders, we really enjoyed her Six of Crows series and her recent Wonder Woman story Warbringer has been hailed as one of the best ever renditions of Diana of Thymiscera. The Language of Thorns however is somehting different, …

  • To the waters and the wild – Interview with Deirdre Sullivan

    Winner of the YA Book of the Year, Deirdre Sullivan, spoke with Cinders magazine about Tangleweed and Brine in October. Deirdre Sullivan is no stranger to the Irish YA literary scene what with her fabulous novel Needlework, and her Prim Improper series. Her new collection Tangleweed and Brine is something different, a set of feminist…

  • Book Review Corner: The Space Between by Meg Grehan

    First published in Cinders volume issue three Spoken word novels are a new trend in YA literature. We saw it with last year’s highly successful One by Sarah Crossan and Meg Grehan’s The Space Between uses the same format. And it uses it so very well.  Once you are a few pages into The Space…

  • Book Review Corner: Fathers Come First By Rosita Sweetman

      First published in Cinders Volume One: Issue Two It’s been a long time since I read a book that felt so much like the memoir of a very old friend. But that’s how Rosita Sweetman’s voice come across on the pag es of Fathers Come First. First printed in 1974, Lilliput Press have re-released…