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Bunnatine, Immy, Demon Lover, and Ghost Boyfriend walk into a bar…

Get In Trouble by Kelly Link

June 9, 2020 by andtheIToldYouSos 2 Comments

Well, sometimes it’s a bar filled with men raised by wolves. Sometimes it’s a space ship. A warehouse full of mysterious sleeping people. A magical house full of “summer people”. A haunted house on a space ship. A lake where a few dozen nudists disappeared in the seventies. The penthouse party at a hotel full of dentists and super heroes. The crumbling remains of a Wizard of Oz theme park. A pocket universe that opened above Florida. Kelly Link writes things that are fantastic and […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: Appalachia, coming-of-age, despair, Kelly Link, Love, magical realism, melancholy, pulitzer noms, super heroes

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR12 Review No:56 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction · Tags: Appalachia, coming-of-age, despair, Kelly Link, Love, magical realism, melancholy, pulitzer noms, super heroes ·
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Time for the Little Sister

Heroine's Journey by Sarah Kuhn

August 24, 2019 by Jen K Leave a Comment

I read the first two novels in this trilogy last year and really enjoyed them.  They have a very comic book feel, focusing on romantic heroines with superpowers.  Many of the scenes are ridiculously over the top but entertaining (such as possessed wedding dresses and armies of angry brides).  This novel is set a few years after the original two which took place within a short amount of each other.  This is due to the fact that this novel follows Bea Tanaka, the younger sister […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Romance Tagged With: Heroine Complex, Heroine's Journey, Sarah Kuhn, super heroes, supernatural

Jen K's CBR11 Review No:36 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Romance · Tags: Heroine Complex, Heroine's Journey, Sarah Kuhn, super heroes, supernatural ·
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Fast times at DC High

DC Super Hero Girls: Search for Atlantis by Shea Fontana

January 10, 2019 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

I should have realized this was a book farther in the series than I originally thought, but DC Super Hero Girls: Search for Atlantis is book seven in the series. However, while it is a standalone novel, you should probably have some basic knowledge who the characters are. Therefore, finding the first few books would be your best bet. Author and illustrator Shea Fontana and Yancey Labat continue the Super High School girl’s stories with this graphic novel. We see all the girls of the […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books Tagged With: DC Universe, Shea Fontana, super heroes, Yancey Labat

BlackRaven's CBR11 Review No:15 · Genres: Children's Books, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books · Tags: DC Universe, Shea Fontana, super heroes, Yancey Labat ·
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Super Powereds Year Four, by Drew Hayes

All good things must come to an end

August 1, 2018 by crystalclear 3 Comments

This book is a kind of bittersweet, in that it’s the last one in the main series.  It’s a crazy long four books (well, five if you count the spinoff**) and it truly is the end of a journey.  We’ve seen these characters grow from immature teens to adults who are willing to make tough decisions, and who are tangled in things far beyond them.  The four years (or more) you spend at college change who you are as a person, and we get to […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fiction Tagged With: #CBR10, awesome, cbr10bingo, college, Drew Hayes, super heroes, Super Powereds

crystalclear's CBR10 Review No:19 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fiction · Tags: #CBR10, awesome, cbr10bingo, college, Drew Hayes, super heroes, Super Powereds ·
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Lucky 13 and Heroes are still fun

July 27, 2018 by CoffeeShopReader 1 Comment

Usually by this point with an author, I’ve gotten bored/annoyed or they’ve gotten predictable. This is Drew Hayes book number 13 for me, and no author fatigue in sight. The only other author I can think of with this kind of reading record for me is Terry Pratchett. Drew Hayes is not Sir Terry, but not in a bad way. Even though Corpies is set in the same world as Super Powereds, and includes some character crossover, there’s still enough new characters and situations that […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: Corpies, Drew Hayes, spinoff, super heroes, Super Powereds

CoffeeShopReader's CBR10 Review No:46 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: Corpies, Drew Hayes, spinoff, super heroes, Super Powereds ·
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Forging Hephaestus cover

Awesome, but not my favorite Drew Hayes

July 5, 2018 by crystalclear Leave a Comment

And so we embark on another journey into the strange world that is Drew Hayes’ imagination.  How this guy can come up with so many different, yet complete universes boggles the mind. This one is similar, on paper at least, to his Super Powereds universe.  But it’s very different in some very key ways.   Like in Super Powereds, we have people with abilities.  These people are called metahumans, or metas. Metas can be formed in different ways.  They can gain powers during an accident […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: #CBR10, Drew Hayes, super heroes, villains

crystalclear's CBR10 Review No:3 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: #CBR10, Drew Hayes, super heroes, villains ·
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