It’s a roller-coaster ride, no doubt. One filled with swords and skeletons. Which begs the question: can a necromancer be ride-or-die? Or are they ride-AND-die?
Living Dead Girls
Gideon The Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
It’s the Podcast but in Color!
The Adventure Zone: Here There Be Gerblins by Clint McElroy, Griffin McElroy, Justin McElroy, Travis McElroy, Carey Pietsch
Ah TAZ, I can’t believe it’s only been a bit over a year since I finished the first arc. For those unfamiliar, The Adventure Zone podcast or, TAZ as it’s known to its fans, is the McElroy Brothers, (Justin, Travis and Griffin) and their father (Clint) playing D&D. The story they create in the first installment of the series, Here There Be Gerblins, is yer basic go-there-get-the-thing quest. Standard D&D stuff. That is a woefully reductive description of a storytelling experience that was so magical that I wish I could erase it out […]
The Woodcutter doesn’t cut wood and this book didn’t cut it for me.
The Woodcutter by Kate Danley
I read Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik last year and it left me jonesing for more fairy tales. So when I saw the Woodcutter on Kindle Unlimited, I snatched it up. Plus, look at how pretty the cover is! I’m a sucker for a good cover. The Woodcutter is a magical person who lives in the Wood and maintains the peace between humans and the fae. At the beginning of the book, he finds Cinderella dead in the Wood, with no mark on her to […]
If you like Lovecraftian horror, you might like this better than I did.
Maplecroft (The Borden Dispatches, #1) by Cherie Priest
Before you read too much of my blather, the gist of this review will be that this book was Not For Me. Those two stars mean, “not to my tastes or preferences,” not “this book is very flawed and here’s why.” The review might still be of interest for you for the purposes of finding out if the book might be For You. Maplecroft is an epistolary novel that posits the what if of: What if Lizzie Borden famously murdered her parents for a good […]
You’re My Best Friend
Pizza and Taco: Who’s the Best? by Stephen Shaskan
One of the things I like about graphic novels is that they do not “look” like a book. They are books, but they have this feeling they are not really a book to a reluctant or early reader. Does this make them the best format to read? Maybe/Maybe not. But you and your friends can vote on it, like best friends Pizza and Taco do in Pizza and Taco: Who’s the Best? But like any election, there is a lead up to why there is […]
West Coast Magical Noir
Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey
Sarah Gailey’s Magic for Liars is a magical noir in two ways: it’s magical in the sense of being addictive and transporting, and it’s also magical in the more straightforward sense, which is to say, it’s a noir in which most of the characters are, indeed, mages. Ivy Gamble, who has spent her life feeling inadequate compared to her magically-gifted sister, Tabitha, has turned into the hard-drinking, hard-living PI of the noir tradition–and, in keeping with predecessors like Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe, Ivy lives in […]
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