My name is Michele and I’m a failure. It’s no surprise given the state of the world. *gestures, or possibly waves smoke away from face* I’ve been failure as a reader, and especially as a reviewer. This blog has been quiet for too long, and while I’d like to think I’m going to change that […]
Klaus: How Santa Claus Began by Grant Morrison, illustrated by Dan Mora BOOM! Studios, 2019 ISBN-13: 9781684153930 Available: Hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) Klaus arrives in the town of Grimsvig during Yuletide to trade furs, and finds it a sad shell of what it once was. Grimsvig is under the control of Baron Magnus, a harsh man […]
The Raven by Dani Lamia Level 4 Press, Inc. ISBN-13: 978-1933769707 Available: Preorder paperback, Kindle edition, MP3 ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) I received a .pdf ARC of this from the publisher. Rebekah is bullied horrendously at school, mostly cruel jokes originating with popular Coralie Renner and her friends. Things get much worse when Beka accidentally spills a drink on her […]
BOOK REVIEW: HOWL BY SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON
March 28, 2023Howl by Shaun David Hutchinson Simon & Schuster, 2022 ISBN: 978-1-5344-7092-7 Available: Hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition, audiobook ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) Virgil Knox is a gay teen who has moved from Seattle to live with his grandparents in his father’s rural hometown in the South with his father while his parents resolve their divorce. Following a party, he finds himself […]
BOOK REVIEW: THE HONEYS BY RYAN LA SALA
March 21, 2023The Honeys by Ryan La Sala PUSH, 2022 ISBN-13 : 978-1338745313 Available: Hardcover, paperback, KIndle edition, audiobook. ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) When genderfluid teen Mars Matthias’ twin sister Carikube dies violently in front of them after running away from summer camp, Mars insists on attending the camp for the rest of the summer. They agree […]
BOOK REVIEW: RUINSONG BY JULIA EMBER
March 14, 2023Ruinsong by Julia Ember Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2020 ISBN-13 : 978-0374313357 Available: Hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com) In this YA dark fantasy, Cadence is a corporeal mage whose magic comes through singing. While she comes from poverty, she is now the principal singer for the queen. Queen Elene, also originally a commoner, overthrew […]
BOOK REVIEW: ANGEL FALLS BY JULIA RUST AND DAVID SURFACE
March 9, 2023Angel Falls by Julia Rust and David Surface YAP Books, 2022 ISBN-13 : 978-1949140330 Available: Hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition. ( Bookshop.org |Amazon.com ) In the 1600s, a large group of women and children colonists of Beauport, Massachusetts disappeared, killed by the Indians they displaced. A year later, they started to return. Those who believed […]
Tales from Harrow County, Volume 1: Death’s Choir by Cullen Bunn, art by Naomi Franquiz Dark Horse, 2020 ISBN-13: 97815067168 Available: Paperback, Kindle edition, comiXology ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) Award-winning, Eisner-nominated Southern Gothic horror returns in Tales from Harrow County, Volume 1: Death’s Choir. The story focuses on Bernice Anderson as she has taken on the mantle of steward of […]
Abe Sapien: Dark and Terrible Volume 1 by Mike Mignola, John Arcudi, and Scott Allie, art by Sebastián Fiumara and Max Fiumara Dark Horse Comics, 2022 ISBN-13: 9781506733784 Available: Hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition, Comixology. ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) Abe, a humanoid amphibious man and member of the B.P.R.D, after awakening from a coma and mutated, leaves the B.P.R.D. to […]
T.V. Review: Mayfair Witches- Episode 6- Transference
February 21, 2023**There will be spoilers for the show and the books.** And the show and the books take their huge split here. It was inevitable, given that The Witching Hour is a thousand page book and still ends on a cliffhanger where Lasher’s endgame is just then revealed. Again, how many authors could get away with […]