Love Kills by Danilo Beyruth
What do I want to say about the graphic novel Love Kills by Danilo Beyruth? This book was majorly screwed up! I mean, I liked it, despite the ending being blunt, ending on a smack you in the face realization, then nothing afterwards, but overall everything works out well. Though, I would say things lend themselves to be more of a 3.5 and not “just” a three, as I was not a fan of the violent images in some cases, but still thought they set […]
Inbetweens by Faith Erin Hicks
When you are a fan of an author, or at least with me, I find one of two things happening with a book: Either I love it so much that even if it is bad, I don’t notice. I am just a fan blinded by my fangirling mind. Or I am terribly disappointed and figure that there is no way my author wrote it, as I have way too high expectations for it. Thankfully Inbetweens by Faith Erin Hicks was neither. It is in between […]
The Magical, Wonderful Bul Bul Bird by Jonathan Kruk and Rob Bridges
When I sit to write out a draft of a review of The Magical, Wonderful Bul Bul Bird by Jonathan Kruk and illustrator Rob Bridges, I have trouble finding the right words. After mentioning that the book is a rich story, with elegant illustrations that are keeping with traditional inspiration and modern sensibilities making what the author and illustrator made an interesting experience to read. Well,that is pretty much it. One could mention that the book is longer than the usual picture book, but I […]
Tongues, Volume 1 by Anders Nilsen
Tongues, Vol. 1 by Anders Nilsen I have NO idea what was read. The stories all bounce all over the place. The images are busy, the text mixes and gets lost in the illustrations. The images are colorless but are not black and white. The characters are unlikable, even Astrid, who might be the one that will save the world. Or destroy it. It’s still up in the air. There is nothing good and positive. Even The Prisoner has faults and he seems to […]
The Boy Who Became a Parrot: A Foolish Biography of Edward Lear Who Invented Nonsense by Wolverton Hill and Laura Carlin
I kept seeing the title The Boy Who Became a Parrot: A Foolish Biography of Edward Lear Who Invented Nonsense by Wolverton Hill and illustrator Laura Carlin on multiple promotions, lists and emails. I was starting to think I did not want to read it as I have a thing about not reading something that is too popular. This is because I figure, a popular book will sell, be given love. The not so popular book needs someone to find it, to give it the […]
Odessa by Gabrielle Sher
Gabrielle Sher’s Odessa started from her doctoral dissertation titled “Who Made Us Monsters? Narrative Psychology and The Female Jewish Gothic.” I assume it evolved a lot to go from academic writing to horror novel, but I think the question was answered. The book doesn’t explain much. It doesn’t have a historic context note, there are no explanations or translations for the many words that I believe are Yiddish. This works because Sher is very good at giving you enough context to figure. For example, you […]
