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Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Seriously, Araña is a way better name than Spider-Girl.

October 6, 2015 by narfna Leave a Comment

This was not what I was expecting at all, and I really, really liked it! Each volume in this series has been different, so you really don’t need to read them in any particular order, but this one in particular stands on its own. It’s told from the POV of Spider-Girl, Anya Corazon (who wanted her superhero name to be Araña, but no one could pronounce it properly). It could have ended up cutesy, what with the whole point of the story being that Anya […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: avengers assemble, Kelly Sue DeConnick, marvel, marvel now!, narfna, superheroes, The Avengers, the forgeries of jealousy, Warren Ellis

narfna's CBR7 Review No:136 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: avengers assemble, Kelly Sue DeConnick, marvel, marvel now!, narfna, superheroes, The Avengers, the forgeries of jealousy, Warren Ellis ·
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Gun Machine

December 24, 2014 by competitivenonfiction Leave a Comment

I read Gun Machine, because my husband gave it a strong recommendation and insisted that I would love it. He has fantastic taste in books, an generally if he says I’ll love something he’s bang on. Gun Machine was absolutely no exception. When a shootout claims the life of Detective John Tallow’s partner, he chases the suspect through a building and accidentally stumbles across an apartment filled with guns, each of which was used in an unsolved murder. No one is very happy about the prospect of opening up […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: Gun Machine, Warren Ellis

competitivenonfiction's CBR6 Review No:34 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: Gun Machine, Warren Ellis ·
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