By Brian Michael Bendis, David W. Mack (Illustrator), Michael Gaydos (Illustrator)Format: PaperbackPublished: January 1st, 2003Age: AdultGenre: Sci-Fi/Fantasy – Crime Rating: 5/5 Stars In Alias, Volume 2, superhero turned PI Jessica Jones investigates the disappearance of a teenage girl, with little but the girl’s collage books to get clues from. As she gradually pieces it together, she gets an eyeopenerContinueContinue reading “Graphic Novel Review: Jessica Jones: Alias, Vol. 2”
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One Sentence Book Reviews – Part 3
I keep meaning to do these a bit more often, but other stuff often gets in the way and, well, it’s been a long time! But they seem to be popular posts so here’s another one. These are one sentence book reviews for the last 5 books I’ve read at the time of writing. OneContinueContinue reading “One Sentence Book Reviews – Part 3”
Book Review: Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert
Format: PaperbackPublished: November 5th, 2019Age: AdultGenre: Contemporary Romance Rating: 5/5 Stars If you’ve been following the blog for a bit, it’ll probably come as no surprise that I was really excited to read this. After reading Take a Hint, Dani Brown, I was keen to go back to book 1 and experience The Brown SistersContinueContinue reading “Book Review: Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert”
Book Review: Unladylike Lessons in Love by Amita Murray
Format: ebookPublished: May 16th, 2023Age: AdultGenre: Historical (Regency) Romance Rating: 5/5 Stars I love Regency Romance, but I especially love when Regency Romance moves us a bit away from the ton and gives us characters a bit different, with separate struggles than dukes and earls. So, I was very much looking forward to Amita Murray’sContinueContinue reading “Book Review: Unladylike Lessons in Love by Amita Murray”
Graphic Novel Review: Fables, Vol. 4: March of the Wooden Soldiers
By Bill Willingham (Writer), Mark Buckingham (Artist), Craig Hamilton (Artist), Steve Leialoha (Artist), P. Craig Russell (Artist)Format: PaperbackPublished: November 30th, 2004Age: AdultGenre: Urban Fantasy Rating: 5/5 Stars I’m really enjoying these graphic novels. If you’re not familiar, Fables is about fairy tale characters living in the real world. In the fourth volume, the first refugee in centuriesContinueContinue reading “Graphic Novel Review: Fables, Vol. 4: March of the Wooden Soldiers”
Book Review: The Hemlock Queen by Hannah F. Whitten
Format: ebookPublished: April 9th, 2024Age: AdultGenre: Fantasy Rating: 5/5 Stars I loved this. I think sometimes a second book can not-quite-hit in a series. There’s a lot it has to do – continuing the story from the previous book, introducing new elements to keep it a little fresh, raise the stakes and keep you hookedContinueContinue reading “Book Review: The Hemlock Queen by Hannah F. Whitten”
Book Review: To Gaze Upon Wicked Gods by Molly X. Chang
Format: HardbackPublished: April 16th, 2024Age: Young AdultGenre: Fantasy Rating: 5/5 Stars Indulge me for just a moment – I ended up reading this book at the same time I was reading Hannah Whitten’s The Hemlock Queen. They’re not two books I would naturally pair together, but they do compliment one another. Both main characters haveContinueContinue reading “Book Review: To Gaze Upon Wicked Gods by Molly X. Chang”
Book Review: Write Great Dialogue by Irving Weinman
Format: PaperbackPublished: January 1st, 2012Age: AdultGenre: Nonfiction – Reference – Writing Rating: 3/5 Stars This is a writing guide designed to teach you how to write dialogue – it’s not as simple as merely mimicking the way people speak, and it’s a very tricky area of writing. I think Weinman does a good job ofContinueContinue reading “Book Review: Write Great Dialogue by Irving Weinman”
Book Review: The Governess Affair by Courtney Milan
Format: ebookPublished: April 21st, 2012Age: AdultGenre: Historical Romance (Regency) Rating: 5/5 Stars When Serena Barton plants herself outside the home of a duke, Hugo Marshall thinks she will be as easy to take care of as any of the other ‘troubles’ he’s sorted for his employer. His ruthless ambition has earned him a place atContinueContinue reading “Book Review: The Governess Affair by Courtney Milan”
Book Review: The Celts: Search for a Civilization by Alice Roberts
Format: PaperbackPublished: October 5th, 2015Age: AdultGenre: Nonfiction – History Rating: 5/5 Stars This has been on my TBR for a good while, and I was really glad I finally got to it. ‘Celts’, as a whole, are a tricky subject. There are many people who claim to be ‘Celtic’, but even now there’s a lackContinueContinue reading “Book Review: The Celts: Search for a Civilization by Alice Roberts”
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