Books

'The New Age of Heroes' has released two new superheroes for us to love: Sideways and The Silencer. Read one comic book enthusiast's review of the tandem comic books here, on Black Girl Nerds!

Ask any Star Wars fan about Grand Admiral Thrawn and the majority of them will smile and tell you about their favorite parts of the Heir To The Empire, the book series where Timothy Zahn first introduced readers to the Grand Admiral. When the new canon was introduced, many believed they would never see the...

I recently reviewed the middle grade novel Like Vanessa, and if you've read my review, then you already know how much I love this book. I loved it so much that I reached out through the networks to speak with the author and tell her how much I enjoyed it. Tami was gracious enough to...

Tor has been publishing a lot of novellas lately, and Mapping the Interior, by Blackfeet Native-American writer Stephen Graham Jones is one of those. Promoted as a horror story, it does include some very tensed, creepy and gore-ish moments, but it's above all a story about father and son relationships, particularly in the context...

Within a decade, Nnedi Okorafor has established herself as one of the most powerful and recognized Black voices in current science-fiction and fantasy. Her range is pretty impressive, from YA stories like Akata Witch, to writing Black Panther issues, to sci-fi novels like The Book of Phoenix (shortlisted for a Clarke Award), and to...

Like Vanessa, the debut middle grade novel by Tami Charles, is truly one of the most beautiful books I’ve read in a long time. It’s been a minute since I’ve cried reading a book, and let me tell you, I was crying Black girl magic thug tears by the end. It’s 1983, and Vanessa Martin is...

What's going on in the TV world? https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=55&v=yltdDq0xgmg Marvel has released a new promo for their upcoming series, Cloak and Dagger. The series will debut on Freeform on June 7 with a world premiere at SXSW on March 11. It follows two teenagers, Tyrone Johnson (Aubrey Joseph) and Tandy Bowen (Olivia Holt) from different backgrounds. They find...

Rather than opening this review with a bit of fluff, I’m just going to cut straight to the chase: Justina Ireland’s Dread Nation should be added to your TBR list immediately. I don’t quite know what my expectations were going in, but I read the summary and got strong Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter and...

"For those who don't know Bingo Love, I see it as Moonlight meets Black Mirror's San Junipero episode." A happy little thrum of recognition rolled off of the crowd gathered at Amalgam Comics & Coffeehouse when author Tee Franklin described her gorgeous book as such. I had just finished reading Bingo Love at my table...

Sometimes, it’s hard to review a book. You sit down to write a review, and (if you love it) you ask yourself, “what parts of the book am I going to talk about?” When it comes to Children of Blood and Bone (written by Tomi Adeyemi), I can go on and on about how...