Join Mikie & Darnel as we talk about Sinners. Directed by Ryan Coogler and starring Michael B Jordan (twice!), it’s an unapologetically black film steeped in culture. It’s equal parts a horror movie and a celebration of the legacy music has to the black diaspora.
Vampire of El Norte by Isabel Cañas had me hooked from the start. The creatures here are exactly what I want from a vampire story. They were dark, menacing, and genuinely terrifying.
Grr, arg! I grew up on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and was SO ready to jump back into the universe with a new entry. In Every Generation by Kendare Blake had such an exciting premise: bringing the Slayer mythos into a new era with a fresh spin. The story takes place nearly two decades after end of season 7 of BtVS and follows Frankie, Willow’s daughter, a witch and somehow the new Slayer.
Middle books in trilogies are tricky. You’ve got to carry the momentum of book one while setting up the last book, and One Girl in All the World definitely leans into that “middle book” energy.
Blood, rage, and ruin. A Dowry of Blood by S.T. Gibson is a love letter written like the kind of poetry that makes you stop mid-page just to breathe it in. Told through the eyes of Constanta, one of Dracula’s wives, it’s less a gothic romance and more the long, unflinching memoir of someone who’s survived the most intoxicating and destructive relationship of their life.
At its core, this is a vampire novel—but not your typical, cookie-cutter vamps. SMG pulls from Mexico’s indigenous mythologies to create a gritty, bloody underworld that feels alive in a way most supernatural urban settings don’t.