KNoelMoore

Also: I'm currently reading Barbed Wire Heart by Tess Sharpe, and Harley McKenna is an amazing character. A drug lord's daughter using her power in the criminal underworld to punish rapists and provide security to battered women? Absolute badassery.

Marcella Riggins from V. E. Schwab’s Vengeful. Technically she’s the bad guy, but watching her systemically go after the men who mistreated her and not only destroy them, but become more powerful than all of them combined, is so damn satisfying that it’s hard not to end up rooting… Read More

Not mine, but: my cousin's name is Gus. Not Augustus, not Angus, his legal name is just Gus. Apparently his older brother got to help choose the name, and he was obsessed with the Disney movie Cinderella at the time, so he picked the name Gus-Gus, after the little mouse. My aunt thought… Read More

Not mine, but: my cousin's name is Gus. Not Augustus, not Angus, his legal name is just Gus. Apparently his older brother got to help choose the name

Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick. This was the book that inspired me to learn ASL, and I never get tired of revisiting it.

The InCryptid series by Seanan McGuire is great to begin with (monsters! Talking mice! Ballroom dancing!), but the hilarious, sometimes a little too relatable relationships between the Price siblings, their sometimes-disapproving parents, black sheep cousins, and oddball grandparents,… Read More

Anything and everything by Cat Winters (one of my all-time favorite authors) fits this definition, but I’d like to specifically recommend her beautiful Gothic ghost story “The Uninvited,” because it shines a light on a part of history that not enough people know about, and that unfortunately… Read More

I am a veteran horror fan and an avid reader of psychological thrillers and true crime, and to this day the one book that has legitimately given me nightmares is “The Call” by Peadar O’Guilin. It’s an Irish YA novel about a world where everyone, at some point between the ages of 13… Read More