Del Rey Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/publishers/del-rey/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Wed, 14 Jan 2026 01:59:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/cropped-books-on-table-2-150x150.jpg Del Rey Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/publishers/del-rey/ 32 32 38398750 Spinning Silver https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2026/01/spinning-silver/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2026/01/spinning-silver/#respond Wed, 14 Jan 2026 08:46:45 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=19412 In Spinning Silver author Naomi Novak takes the components of the fairytale Rumpelstiltskin and separates them in the same way the heroine in that story had to separate the straw to weave into gold. From seemingly unimportant, innocuous bits of chaff, Novak spins an entire storyline and then brings it all together for mesmerizing reading. […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2026/01/spinning-silver/feed/ 0 19412 The Staircase in the Woods https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/06/the-staircase-in-the-woods/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/06/the-staircase-in-the-woods/#comments Mon, 09 Jun 2025 07:13:53 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=19171 I’m not a huge horror fan, but I am easily influenced by a book’s cover and that was all it took to lead me into Chuck Wendig’s novel A Staircase in the Woods. Who could resist a cover like this? Or this premise: Five high school friends partying in the woods discover a staircase in […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/06/the-staircase-in-the-woods/feed/ 2 19171 The Seventh Veil of Salome https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/09/the-seventh-veil-of-salome/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/09/the-seventh-veil-of-salome/#respond Wed, 25 Sep 2024 07:02:50 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=18657 The Hollywood studio system reached its zenith in the 1950s. Young women and men were discovered, groomed, coached, and molded into some of the movie industry’s biggest stars. Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s new novel, The Seventh Veil of Salome uses the original Biblical tale as the underpinnings beneath the making of a big-budget picture based on Salome’s […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/09/the-seventh-veil-of-salome/feed/ 0 18657 August Reading Wrap-Up https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/09/august-reading-wrap-up-8/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/09/august-reading-wrap-up-8/#comments Tue, 03 Sep 2024 07:50:10 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=18606 August flew by, thanks to my first encounter with COVID. But I’m better now and while I didn’t get much reading or reviewing done, what I did read was diverse and interesting. Time to get back to regular review posting!   As technology advances there is more and science fiction about scenarios that feel too […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/09/august-reading-wrap-up-8/feed/ 2 18606 2022 Wrap-Up https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/01/2022-wrap-up/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/01/2022-wrap-up/#comments Thu, 05 Jan 2023 08:56:42 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=17195 I started 2023 strong with The Light Pirate, a book I found riveting, but before I go full bore into the year, I need to wrap up 2022 as I read a lot more books (180 to be exact) and never reviewed some of them. I’m also going to do something I’ve never done before: […]

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