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Charles Forsman: I am not okay with this (2017)
"Sydney appears to be a normal, rudderless, suburban 15-year-old freshman. But she harbors a secret that threatens to overwhelm her."--Page …
Revenge. It's something Sigrud je Harkvaldsson is very, very good at. Maybe the only thing. …
I love these books just as much as I love the Craft sequence by Max Gladstone. There is just something about the world building here that makes the magic real, and the Gods fearsome and terrifying.
Decent.
Gail Simone: Clean room (2016)
"Journalist Chloe Pierce had no idea that her fiance Philip's decision to pick up a …
Not as good as the first one, but the nice hick neighbors are lovely.
Gail Simone: Clean room (2017)
"In this new installment of Gail Simone's CLEAN ROOM, go back to the beginning to …
Pretty good but ends very suddenly. The demons don’t make much sense when you think about it, but this is more of a style-based book than a thinking thriller.
From back cover: The lunar colony is slowly winding down, like a small town circumvented …
It’s more of a scene poem than anything else. There is no plot. The art isn’t great either. But it’s short!
It’s a silly book, but the glory of it is that it doesn’t try too hard for comedy, and instead looks at the inner life of someone who still isn’t really sure whether she even likes being male or female (protagonist is Asian, female, bi and genderqueer), or liking men or women, and then throws her into a world in which she is a superhero with powers and forces that are going to result in people getting hurt and her hurting people whether she likes it or not. And some times she does like it, and is not sure if that’s her or not either.
The ambiguity over free will, identity, feelings (sparks have “halos” and darklings have “shadows” that inspire awe and/or terror from being in their presence) contribute to an undertone of body horror even as she enjoys having superpowers. It is like Worms in this aspect.
Unfortunately …
It’s a silly book, but the glory of it is that it doesn’t try too hard for comedy, and instead looks at the inner life of someone who still isn’t really sure whether she even likes being male or female (protagonist is Asian, female, bi and genderqueer), or liking men or women, and then throws her into a world in which she is a superhero with powers and forces that are going to result in people getting hurt and her hurting people whether she likes it or not. And some times she does like it, and is not sure if that’s her or not either.
The ambiguity over free will, identity, feelings (sparks have “halos” and darklings have “shadows” that inspire awe and/or terror from being in their presence) contribute to an undertone of body horror even as she enjoys having superpowers. It is like Worms in this aspect.
Unfortunately the other characters are not nearly as well fleshed out, although it’s a question whether this is because Kim doesn’t really see her college friends as real people after a point.
also the geek cred name dropping of xkcd was really annoying after a point.
In our unique genomes, every one of us carries the story of our species--births, deaths, disease, war, famine, migration, and …
You only think you know this story. In 1991, Jeffrey Dahmer—the most notorious serial killer since Jack the Ripper—seared himself …
The most important myth in Ancient Egypt is faithfully retold in glorious color! Horus, son of Isis, vows bloody revenge …
A collection of short comics about various women.
119 pages ; 21 cm
Makes no sense. It’s not magic realism, and the backstory only makes it worse.
