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From New York Times bestselling author and artist Reza Farazmand, his first graphic novel about a young monster who moves to a big city …
Hipster monsters exploring their purpose in life and enjoying the coffee and culture of the city while helping their ghost friend explore its past. Fun premise and loved the humor. The art is in the same simple style as Poorly Drawn Lines, and fits the story well. Short but didn’t feel rushed, seemed like the right length for the story.
Olivia Dade bursts onto the scene in this delightfully fun romantic comedy set in the world of fanfiction, in which a devoted fan goes on…
Really enjoyed this! Their issues were in some ways very similar, yet they reacted in totally different ways.
I skipped most of the fanfic segments and scripts although they did thematically complement the story when I did read them, I’m just impatient, what can I say 😉
Take one ambitious politician and one determined magician with wildly different aims for their next meeting. Add a secret betrothal, a f…
Fine but too short and the characters both acted annoyingly dumb. I disliked the setup.
Perfect for fans of A Court of Thorns and Roses and Uprooted, this stand-alone, fantasy romance about a human girl and her marriage to th…
Enjoyed this Hades/Persephone spin with dark elves and humans with plant magic, I’ll read the next book. This was my first read from Elise Kova. Interesting worldbuilding and magic system, though I would have appreciated seeing a little bit more limitations on it. I liked how the heroine drew out the hero but also that his reasons for acting the way he did became more explicable as she learned about his experience.
Some minor quibbles I had were related to it feeling a little YA, with the heroine acting pretty dumb several times towards the beginning of the book. I was also a little frustrated it took so long for her to come to her senses at the end of the book as well, and feel like it would have benefited from a little bit more of a denouement. The added epilogue chapter from the author’s site helped that.
She wants one night. He wants her forever. Hayden Summers just landed the job of a lifetime taking pictures for Time magazine, but she’s…
Amarrah Brewer is desperate and grief-stricken. For ages, the town of Bitterburn has sent tribute to the Keep at the End of the World, bu…
Nice reimagining of Beauty and the Beast, faithful to the original story with dashes of inspiration from the Disney movie.
Reminded me in story but not in tone of Ursula Vernon’s version, Bryony and Roses, with a magical garden and whispering voices and two mysterious forces battling each other for the keep and it’s inhabitants.
The premise reminded me too of Uprooted, but the tone of this was somehow darker. It’s an interesting contrast in retellings, both young women making a meal as their first task at the castle, where in Bitterburn the heroine is deadened to the world with depression and abandonment and settles in to survive with cheerless competence, while in Uprooted the heroine has been torn unexpectedly from her home and family and is convinced she’ll be killed or raped and can barely hold herself together.
In the world of the Harwood Spellbook, 19th-century Angland is ruled by a powerful group of women known as the Boudiccate – but in order …
Liked it though I wish we could have seen some of their courtship! But it works in this shorter format to focus just on what makes Amy’s decision.
Tiến loves his family and his friends…but Tiến has a secret he’s been keeping from them, and it might change everything. An amazing YA gr…
Gorgeous artwork well complimented by the simple color palette. At the end there’s a really interesting explanation of the fairy tale character / costume design that I enjoyed learning as well. The way he draws hair reminds me of a coloring book I had when I was little where I thought the girls were unbearably beautiful.
I really like how the story weaves together the main character’s story, his mother’s, and several fairy tales that they read together. The fairy tales are nicely woven with the narrative, which is also moving. I especially like how casting the stories against the mother’s immigration story lend them new meaning.
Listening Length: 8 hours and 35 minutes Jay na Thalang is a demanding, driven genius. He doesn’t know how to stop or even slow down. Th…
This one is a hard read because the Hero has made some serious mistakes that are rooted in sexism, even if he has reasons for that. But so worthwhile.
Talia Hibbert returns with another charming romantic comedy about a young woman who agrees to fake date her friend after a video of him “…
Wasn’t sold on the MC but adored the love interest. Liked the honest discussion of anxiety.