I like books.
This link opens in a pop-up window
The Executives control Oichi's senses, her voice, her life. Until the day they kill her. An executive clan gives the …
I think this is the sort of book that would be amazing if it only had a better artist. As it is, it's confused and the plot doesn't really hold together.
"Step into The City of Brass, the spellbinding debut from S. A. Chakraborty--an imaginative alchemy …
Is good solid book, with characters that aren’t idiots and are all playing to further their own agendas while still making nice in public. There is magic and violence and road trip to begin with, but once you get to the city it becomes far more political and tense as everyone realizes what a powder keg they are sitting on.
I especially liked that there is no wish fulfillment in this book. There is no Manly Bigpants/Mary Sue character here. The lead protagonist is a girl who thinks she’s an expert manipulator but is still weak for abs or a friendly face (and the other characters know and comment on this teenager thinking she’s such hot shit), and the male dreamboat is a religious zealot out of time who is borderline abusive and controlling, and again the book knows this.
Harry Potter this is not, and even the male dreamboat …
Is good solid book, with characters that aren’t idiots and are all playing to further their own agendas while still making nice in public. There is magic and violence and road trip to begin with, but once you get to the city it becomes far more political and tense as everyone realizes what a powder keg they are sitting on.
I especially liked that there is no wish fulfillment in this book. There is no Manly Bigpants/Mary Sue character here. The lead protagonist is a girl who thinks she’s an expert manipulator but is still weak for abs or a friendly face (and the other characters know and comment on this teenager thinking she’s such hot shit), and the male dreamboat is a religious zealot out of time who is borderline abusive and controlling, and again the book knows this.
Harry Potter this is not, and even the male dreamboat has a good reason for looking the way he does: he died and a woman who knew what she liked made him a new body and put his soul into it.
Actually pretty great. The atmosphere would float away but fuck it, I think the idea of everyone flying is excellent.
A new, cataclysmic chapter of the Descender saga is here! All the various factions who …
Cringe inducing cheesiness.
It was free on Hoopla.
"Two of Warren Ellis' acclaimed science fiction stories are collected here in Deluxe format with …
It's okay. It's very much generic Ellis.
"With his infectious love of storytelling in all its forms, his rich characterization and his …
It's a bit too contrived. Jean has huge amounts of plot armor, the All-Defector must eat up incredible amounts of computation in simulation, and the macguffin jewel really doesn't make any sense when you look at it more closely.
Kurt Busiek: Astro city (2018)
"The Broken Man returns, revealing secrets that will draw you deep into his broken life, and into turn-of-the-century Astro City, …
Who is Lottie Person? Is she a gorgeous, fun-loving social media star with a perfect …
Made me want to stab myself in the hand with a plastic spork.
I like having a black single mother beating up drug lords to support her child.
I mean, it’s a hellscape society, but it’s better than having a white billionaire beat up on the mentally ill.
Reeling from recent events, even Hawkeye wants to know what his new status quo is. Who's with him? Who's against …
When Marjorie, a practical teen in charge of her family's laundry business, encounters Wendell, a …
It’s an okay young adult book.
Maika, Kippa, and Ren journey to Thyria in search of answers to her past... and discover a new, terrible threat.
