June 26, 2020
I first learned about Midnight at the Blackbird Café when the Speculative Chic editor tagged me in a Facebook post about the book. It’s a well-known fact that reading and baking are my truest loves. The gorgeous blueberry tart on the cover immediately caught my attention because it looks so delicious. Every aspect of the book felt tailor-made for me.…
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September 23, 2019
They might not be raindrops on roses or whiskers on kittens, but that doesn’t mean that we love them any less. Welcome back to My Favorite Things, the weekly column where we grab someone in speculative circles to gab about the greatest in geek. This week, we sit down with Kate Alice Marshall, whose latest release, Rules for Vanishing, comes…
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August 3, 2019
Welcome back, denizens of geek! We’ve got another Roundup in store for you, with all the best of spec this week! I’m quivering with antici… …pation, so let’s cut the usual goofy intro and jump right in!
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July 31, 2019
The Winter of the Witch (2019) Written by: Katherine Arden Genre: Fiction Pages: 285 (Hardcover) Series: Winternight Trilogy Book #3 Publisher: Del Rey Why I Chose It: The first book in the Winternight Trilogy, The Bear and the Nightingale, is one of my favorite books that I have reviewed for Speculative Chic. I also enjoyed the second book, The Girl…
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December 28, 2018
It’s so very close to the end of 2018! We are packing away the year, clearing the debris, and preparing for the coming of 2019! May it be an excellent year in all things speculative fiction! We are looking ahead at the year to come, and we cannot help but get excited about what kinds of media will be coming…
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February 1, 2018
The Girl in the Tower (2018) Written by: Katherine Arden Genre: Fiction Pages: 346 (Hardcover) Series: Winternight Trilogy Book #2 Publisher: Del Rey Why I Chose It: I picked the first book in the Winternight trilogy, The Bear and the Nightingale, as my favorite speculative book of 2017, so of course I had to read the second book. I was…
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January 12, 2018
It’s no secret that there’s a bunch a readers here at Speculative Chic. Asking our writers what their favorite read of 2017 seemed like an easy task, but it wasn’t. When you read as many books as we do, how do you pick just one? And did it have to be a book published in 2017, or just a book…
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September 21, 2017
The Bear and the Nightingale (2017) Written by: Katherine Arden Genre: Fiction Pages: 312 (Hardback) Series: Winternight Trilogy Book #1 Publisher: Del Rey Why I Chose It: The title and cover of The Bear and the Nightingale did not immediately grab my attention. I probably wouldn’t have picked it up if I wasn’t browsing outside my comfort zone for books…
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