Always Never by Jordi Lafebre
UGH! Always Never by Jordi Lafebre is one of those books that I loved and hated all at once! The story is simple, with a few twists as it is told from the end of our main character story to the start of it. Our two lovers unwind their love story from finally seeing each other after years, to how their fateful and slightly humorous first encounter. We see how they got to a bridge back in their hometown that symbolizes their decades long affair. […]
Low Power: A Graphic Novel (Your Pal Fred) by Michael Rex
Book one of the Your Pal Fred series opens with Fred waking after (I forget how many) centuries to a dystopian earth. He is a friendship robot who on the perky scale makes Sandy Duncan and Mr. Rogers look like grumps. And in his very special way (being kind, talking things out, staring contests, etc) saves the day. With volume two, Low Power: A Graphic Novel (Your Pal Fred) Michael Rex continues our Robot Friend Fred’s journey to make everyone friends. This time around we […]
The Adventure Zone Vol. 4: The Crystal Kingdom by Clint McElroy, Carey Pietsch (Artist), Griffin McElroy, Travis McElroy, Justin McElroy
The Adventure Zone, Vol. 5: The Eleventh Hour by Clint McElroy, Carey Pietsch (Artist), Griffin McElroy, Travis McElroy, Justin McElroy
This probably goes without saying, but I will say it, “Read volumes one to three first.” So, why am I writing this review for volumes four and five? To let you know that the series gets better as it goes along. Now, things might be a bit slow for the old school reader of D&D like graphic novels (especially at first), but the humor and accessibility for the newbie or someone not fully familiar with that format can get into it. I once gave a […]
House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas
House of Sky and Breath by Sarah J. Maas
House of Flame and Shadow by Sarah J. Maas
I know it’s cool to hate on Sarah J. Maas books, but I am a huge fan of her work. Are they high literature? No, but A Court of Thorns and Roses got me back into reading after too long of an absence. A Court of Silver Flames helped get me out of bed after 6 pets died in 6 months and I was in a depressive fugue. She does character development like nobody else, and her books are unputdownable. Book 1: House of Earth […]
The Perfect Crimes of Marian Hayes (London Highwaymen #2) by Cat Sebastian
This book is the second and final in the Highwaymen series and the fact that there isn’t a London Highwaymen #3 (and 4 and 5 and 6 and…) is a crushing blow. I loooove this world and these characters and would easily read a dozen more that showed additional POVs of the action we followed in the first installment, or expansions of other minor characters. Sebastian’s writing is sharp and fun, filling me with smirks, and the story is utterly charming, not to mention a […]
Freaky Deaky by Elmore Leonard
Written and set about twenty years after the height of the peace-and-love Sixties, Elmore Leonard’s Freaky Deaky is populated with former protesters and idealists, now beaten down by the realities of the word and looking out for themselves. Robin and Skip were so invested in the movement they would up doing federal time for blowing up a government building. Now Skip works on creating explosions on movie sets and Robin writes romance novels under a pen name, but when they put together who it was […]
