Reader Girls Blog

World Weaver Press' newest anthology, Scarecrow , Volume Three of Rhonda Parrish's Magical Menageries will be released on Tuesday, August 4th.  We are thrilled to be part of the cover reveal and here it is! About the anthology: Hay-men, mommets, tattie bogles, kakashi, tao-tao—whether formed of straw or other materials, the tradition of scarecrows is pervasive in farming cultures around the world. The scarecrow serves as decoy, proxy, and effigy—human but not human. We create them in our image and ask them to protect our crops and by extension our very survival, but we refrain from giving them the things a creation might crave—souls, brains, free-will, love. In Scarecrow, fifteen authors of speculative fiction explore what such creatures might do to gain the things they need or, more dangerously, think they want. Within these pages, ancient enemies join together to destroy a mad mommet, a scarecrow who is a crow protects solar fields and stores long-lost family secr...

Welcome. We are today's stop on the Stone Rider blog tour presented by Random House Children's Books. Along with our review, we also have a giveaway. Enter! Stone Rider  by David Hofmeyr YA dystopia Hardcover/eBook, 336 pages Published July 14th 2015 by Delacorte (first published January 1st 2015) In the vein of The Outsiders and the early Western novels of Elmore Leonard, this inventive debut novel, a cross between the cult classic Mad Max movie series and Cormac McCarthy’s The Road , blends adrenaline-fueled action with an improbable yet tender romance to offer a rich and vivid portrayal of misfits and loners forced together in their struggle for a better life. Adam Stone wants freedom and peace. He wants a chance to escape Blackwater, the dust-bowl desert town he grew up in. Most of all, he wants the beautiful Sadie Blood. Alongside Sadie and the dangerous outsider Kane, Adam will ride the Blackwater Trail in a brutal race that will test them all, bod...