Mike Carey

The gift that keeps on giving

The Girl With All the Gifts by M. R. Carey

October 24, 2018 by octothorp Leave a Comment

This was my “cannonballer says!” square for bingo and it’s kind of a twofer as maydays’ comment on alwaysanswersb’s review doubled down on my decision to buy the book. And honestly, enough of you guys have recommended this one that I was leaning toward buying this before maydays let me know this was written by Mike Carey (I’m a huge comic book reader but keep my cannonball reviews to prose), but alwaysanswersb really made me interested. I’m spending a lot of words on the review, but much like AAB, I don’t want to give too much away plot-wise. You’ve also […]

10/24/2018 | Post by octothorp

Tom Taylor’s journey comes to an end

The Unwritten, vol 10: War Stories and The Unwritten, vol 11: Apocalypse by Mike Carey and Peter Gross

December 27, 2017 by Malin 1 Comment

Tom Taylor is trying to find his way back to his friends, moving through a number of children’s stories. Even when he’s reunited with his storyteller father, Wilson Taylor, who by writing a popular fantasy series where the main character shared Tom’s name, pretty much gave him the abilities to move through all manner of works of fiction, and his friends, the world is in chaos, as the Leviathan, the source of all the stories in the world, is gravely wounded. The boundaries between stories are thin and unreliable and it’s difficult to tell what is real and what is […]

12/27/2017 | Post by Malin

Post-Apocalyptic Tale of Wonder

The Girl with All the Gifts by M.R. Carey

December 26, 2017 by teresaelectro Leave a Comment

I’ve been meaning to read The Girl with All the Gifts since the film came out last year. As usual, I kept putting it off until one of my book clubs assigned it. This was voted as the Mocha Girls Read supernatural pick for October. I read nearly half of it in one day, finally finished it up in December. I’m glad that I did, still a wild ride despite hearing spoilers during the in person discussion. I’m not a fiercely against them when it comes to books. The majority of the book is seen through the eyes of a young […]

12/26/2017 | Post by teresaelectro

A pretty disappointing crossover – not sorry I waited so long to read it

The Unwritten, vol 9: The Unwritten Fables by Mike Carey, Bill Willingham, Peter Gross and Mark Buckingham

December 23, 2017 by Malin Leave a Comment

Tommy Taylor has been separated from his friends and is desperately trying to find a way back to them. He also needs to stop the ancient adversary, Pullman, from killing the legendary Leviathan once and for all, but is waylaid on his journey when the various witches and magical personages of Fabletown attempt to summon the greatest mage the worlds have ever seen, in order to stop the menace threatening their own realms. Tommy is pretty sure he’s not the person they’re looking for, but it’s clear that the remaining (and rapidly decreasing) citizens of Fabletown need all the help […]

12/23/2017 | Post by Malin

Revisiting an old friend

Vicious Circle by Mike Carey

October 8, 2017 by Bothari43 2 Comments

I’ve read a couple yawners lately, so I needed something GOOD. I needed a dose of Felix Castor! I know Harry Dresden is beloved around here, but I’ve never really been a fan. I MUCH prefer Felix. He’s an exorcist in London. He works with the police occasionally, getting in touch with the recently deceased, and otherwise acting like a private investigator for clients with ghost trouble. He’s a conflicted atheist exorcist, though, which means he doesn’t actually like performing exorcisms, since he doesn’t know what happens to those souls once they’re gone. Felix has a lot going on. His […]

10/8/2017 | Post by Bothari43

I still don’t know what to do with this.

The Unwritten, Vol. 11: Apocalypse by Mike Carey & Peter Gross

January 17, 2016 by narfna 2 Comments

It’s been days since I finished this, and I still don’t know what I think about it. I don’t even know if I liked it or if I hated it or if it was a good ending or a bad ending, or if it was even an ending. Like, yes, OBVIOUSLY it was an ending literally because the series is over, but good endings FEEL like endings, you know? Does that answer my question as to whether this is good or not? I have no idea. Seriously, I’ve been thinking and thinking about this and I don’t even know what […]

1/17/2016 | Post by narfna

Penultimate shenanigans.

The Unwritten, Vol. 10: War Stories by Mike Carey & Peter Gross

January 14, 2016 by narfna Leave a Comment

The penultimate book in The Unwritten was a bit of a letdown. It felt really unfocused. Granted, the whole thing is about stories coming unraveled, and that might be the point, but either way, it wasn’t a super great reading experience. I feel like there could have been a better way to convey a world that’s lost its purpose without having the story feel a little bit purposeless as well. Tom has finally made it back to the real world after a year of being lost in storyworld. When we first started the series, the Cabal’s messing with Leviathan to […]

1/14/2016 | Post by narfna

A disappointing crossover with Fables.

The Unwritten, Vol. 9: The Unwritten Fables by Mike Carey, Bill Willingham, Peter Gross, & Mark Buckingham

January 14, 2016 by narfna 4 Comments

Okay, first of all, what the hell has been going on in Fables while I’ve been away? Shit is MESSED UP. Second of all, this was way more of a Fables story than it was an Unwritten story, and it was a clunky Fables story at that. I haven’t checked in with Fables in years, and the last one I read was Vol. 6, Homelands. That ended in a very, very different place than this one began in, but it’s not hard to get into the groove of what’s going on. In fact, they go out of their way to make […]