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The King is Dead by Benjamin DeanThe King is Dead is a highly enjoyable YA novel that mixes mystery, romance, and royalty. It follows the young, gay, Black King James who ascends to the throne to a swirl of scandal. Although the novel’s primary focus is on uncovering the person responsible for feeding James’ secrets to an unsympa...
I’ve written a lot about Stranger Things over the past two months. Maybe too much. Probably too much. But I guess that’s what happens when you have a BA in English, are underemployed, and don’t know how to face the shitshow that is the real world. In any case, I’ve written at length about plotlines and character arcs that were
There are a lot of characters in Stranger Things, and a truth about having that many characters and limited screentime is that a few of those characters are necessarily going to have to take a supportive role rather than helming their own storyline. That is true of every show, and it has certainly always been true of Stranger Things. Look at the way that Luc...
Kayvion Lewis’ 2023 YA heist competition novel Thieves’ Gambit was a blast of high-octane fun, and I’ve been looking forward to reading the sequel ever since setting it down (for the first time) way back then. I even reread it—something I have gotten something out of the habit of doing except when extremely enthusiastic—so that I could read Heist Royale
There has been a lot of online theorizing about what went wrong with the final season of Stranger Things. How could a show that had been so brilliant for the first four and a half seasons end on such a disappointing, anticlimactic note? One of the most viral theories is that the quality went downhill after one of the Duffer Brothers got divorce...