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The unofficial Best and Worst List 2025 (so far!)

November 21, 2025 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

I know I put in the official Best and Worst List but honestly out of almost 600 reviews (and several I haven’t posted yet) I’m going to have more than three best and one worst. Therefore, I am going to honor y’all with my list of only the ones I have posted a review for here that could have been used. The bold are the ones I used in the official count, italics almost used and the rest were on the list. WORST DAYGLOAYHOLE #1 […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, History, Horror, Mystery, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Religion, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Suspense, Young Adult

Genres: Biography/Memoir, Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, History, Horror, Mystery, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Religion, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Suspense, Young Adult · Tags: ·
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Well, I had an experience.

DAYGLOAYHOLE #1 by Ben Passmore

November 20, 2025 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

I was not going to review DAYGLOAYHOLE #1 by Ben Passmore. Mostly because I really disliked it. I mean I cannot stress how much I really disliked this book. The second reason is you can only get this book via Silver Sprocket’s website. This is probably because it is more of a zine or comic book store comic (so I guess you might be able to locate it at your local comic store), and less of a traditional graphic novel.  But when I realized that […]

Filed Under: Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, History, Horror, Mystery, Religion, Romance, Science Fiction, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: Ben Passmore, Dystopian, Social Themes

BlackRaven's CBR17 Review No:513 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, History, Horror, Mystery, Religion, Romance, Science Fiction, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction, Suspense · Tags: Ben Passmore, Dystopian, Social Themes ·
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Not as Good as Hyperbole and a Half

Solutions and Other Problems by Allie Brosh

November 19, 2025 by esmemoria Leave a Comment

I adored Allie Brosh’s Hyperbole and a Half blog, and especially resonated with her cartoons about depression. I picked up Solutions and Other Problems, her second book, in the hopes it would be just as funny and affecting. While it was both of these things at times, overall the book just wasn’t as strong as her previous work. The book is primarily about funny anecdotes, childhood stories, and wacky takes on things. To be honest, they felt kind of forced and not particularly humorous. They […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Graphic Novels/Comic Books Tagged With: Allie Brosh

esmemoria's CBR17 Review No:61 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Graphic Novels/Comic Books · Tags: Allie Brosh ·
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The woman and the slave girl

Raging Clouds by Yudori

November 19, 2025 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Books sometimes find me. I was going to the library to pick up some I had ordered and Raging Clouds by Yudori was sitting off to the side of the entrance. I almost didn’t go that way to the checkout desk (I usually go left, not right) but something made me go right. And there it was. Fat, shiny and new. It was shyly facing away from me. And that’s the last time this book was shy. Even the librarian when I checked it out wasn’t […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, History, Religion, Romance, Young Adult Tagged With: #Netherlands, 16th century, feminist, korea, LGBTQ, literary, patriarchal society, science, Yudori

BlackRaven's CBR17 Review No:507 · Genres: Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, History, Religion, Romance, Young Adult · Tags: #Netherlands, 16th century, feminist, korea, LGBTQ, literary, patriarchal society, science, Yudori ·
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I found a new place to dwell

Heartbreak Hotel by Micol Arianna Beltramini

November 19, 2025 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Several books on my recent HBR (Have Been Read) list have had similar feelings and/or themes. And yet, each one is its own unique read. Heartbreak Hotel by Micol Arianna Beltramini and illustrator Agnese Innocente falls into this “alike but not alike” category. This coming of age story is similar to the stories The History of Everything: A Graphic Novel by Victoria Evans, Raging Clouds by Yudori, and The Flip Side by Jason Walz. Yet, it is also its own work and has its own […]

Filed Under: Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, Mystery, Romance, Speculative Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: Agnese Innocente, Death, emotions, friendship, grief, LGBTQ, Micol Arianna Beltramini, Social Themes

BlackRaven's CBR17 Review No:506 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, Mystery, Romance, Speculative Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: Agnese Innocente, Death, emotions, friendship, grief, LGBTQ, Micol Arianna Beltramini, Social Themes ·
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Fish Fingers

Gyo by Junji Ito

November 15, 2025 by Caesar's Wife Leave a Comment

Gyo follows the increasingly grotesque misfortunes of Tadashi, a young man enjoying a seaside getaway with his girlfriend at his uncle’s coastal home when an inexplicably foul smell begins to fill the air. This isn’t your standard low-tide whiff — it’s an invasive, putrid stench that sends his already-germaphobic girlfriend into a spiral. Soon after, accompanied by strange swooshing noises, Tadashi spots the first of what becomes a full-blown invasion: a dead fish scuttling across the land on mechanical metal legs. From there, the story […]

Filed Under: Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Horror, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: Junji Ito

Caesar's Wife's CBR17 Review No:18 · Genres: Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Horror, Speculative Fiction · Tags: Junji Ito ·
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