My Review of: XGeneration 1: You Don’t Know Me (XGeneration, #1) by Brad Magnarella

XGeneration 1: You Don’t Know Me by Brad Magnarella
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

Goodreads Synopsis: Part X-Files, part Freaks and Geeks, and totally ’80s!

In the fall of 1984, Cold War tensions between Washington and Moscow are close to breaking.

But in sleepy Gainesville, Florida, fourteen-year-old Janis Graystone is mainly worried about starting high school, earning a spot on the varsity soccer team, and keeping her older sister from running her life. And then there are her paranormal experiences. Experiences where she awakens in her backyard — out of her body — with the disturbing sense that someone is watching her.

For Scott Spruel, the start of high school means the chance to start over. And he’s willing to ditch everything — computer hacking, Dungeons & Dragons marathons, even his comic book collection (well, except for his X-Men) — if it means getting closer to Janis, the secret love of his life. But what about the eerie delay on his telephone, a delay he senses through powers he is only beginning to understand?

As clocks tick down, Janis and Scott will need the other’s help. But first they’ll have to find one another and that means traversing Thirteenth Street High’s caste system, which can be as brutal as it is unforgiving…

XGeneration is a teen paranormal mystery series, inspired by classic superhero comics and the 1980s.

My Review: Honestly, I really tried to like this book, and although it had a good synopsis I just couldn’t get into it and don’t think this was a book for me. First of all, nothing really exciting happened until the last 5% of the book, life was just completely normal for Scott and Janis for most of the story and that just didn’t hook me. Although X-Men was referred a lot, there wasn’t anything in the story that reminded me of it aside from their powers and names. The characters seemed too young for their age, and the other characters that seemed important weren’t. I didn’t feel worried for either Janis or Scott until the end, and even then it wasn’t for very long. It was an awkward read, the characters emotions and the way they reacted to situations seemed irrational, and the background characters didn’t really have anything to do with the main story. I probably won’t read the next book. That’s really all I have to say about that. Check it out and see what you think. Thanks for reading.

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My Review of: Punk Rock Jesus by Sean Gordon Murphy

Punk Rock Jesus by Sean Gordon Murphy

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Goodreads Synopsis: A New York Times Bestseller!

A reality TV show starring a clone of Jesus Christ causes chaos across the U.S. of the near future in PUNK ROCK JESUS, a new graphic novel written and drawn by Sean Murphy, the acclaimed illustrator of JOE THE BARBARIAN and AMERICAN VAMPIRE.

J2 causes both outrage and adulation. Religious zealots either love or hate the show, angry politicians worry about its influence on the nation, and members of the scientific community fear the implications of cloning a human being at all, let alone the Son of God.

Thomas McKael is the clones’s bodyguard and former IRA operative, who despite his turbulent past is hired to protect the new Jesus—a baby who captivates the world, but grows up to become an angry teenager.

When falling ratings force the network to cut Jesus’s mother from the series the young star runs away, renounces his religious heritage and forms a punk rock band. And what starts off as babysitting for Thomas becomes an epic battle, as Jesus goes to war against the corporate media complex that created him.

Along with his artistic credits on JOE THE BARBARIAN and AMERICAN VAMPIRE: SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST, Murphy also wrote and illustrated the graphic novel OFF ROAD (Oni Press), and cowrote OUTER ORBIT (Dark Horse Comics).

My Review: The first time I saw this book, I was in a comic store and honestly didn’t know what to think. It looked awesome on the outside, the cover is what drew me towards it in the first place, but I really didn’t know what to expect when I opened it. All I knew is that I’d have to read it at some point. This book is an epic read, and I really enjoyed it. I’m not really a comic person usually, mostly because I finish them too quickly, but this seemed like a good fit for me, being a big thick book of comics. I was sucked in from the very first page, and instantly fell in love with the enticing story line. The characters are awesome, and they seem like they could be real people, reacting to the craziness happening around them. They also grew and developed throughout the story, and I always love that. I really became attached to them. I definitely recommend checking out this book if you like an action packed story line, characters who stand up for themselves, and of course, reality TV. I know I’ll be reading this book again. Thanks for reading!

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My Review of: Artificial Gods (Night’s Dream #3) by Thomm Quackenbush

Artificial Gods by Thomm Quackenbush
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Goodreads Synopsis: Jasmine Woods looks forward to a calm summer at home in a small town in upstate New York. On her first night there, she witnesses an object in the sky she cannot identify. Though she is perfectly willing to brush it off as swamp gas reflected off Venus, two men arrive at her door the next day to harass her into silence.

My Review: Honestly this book was a roller coaster for me. I got really attatched to the characters, especially Chrys and Jasmine. And of course, aliens. I love aliens. The cover for this book is pretty cool, although I didn’t realize this was the third book of a series when I started reading it, and despite restarting this book about four times before finally finishing it, it was an awesome read. Although it was a bit wordy, it kept my attention and sucked me right in. I especially loved how the charracters developed throughout the story, some of them clearly traumatized from the events, and they really could have been real people with real emotions reacting to the things happening around them. A few other things I really liked in this book were; Aliens Anonymous (ALEENS) a support group for believers, that skywatching was illegal in the town they lived in, that the bookw as more about sisterly love than romantic love, and how it started out like any other typical (MOB) alien story, but morphed into something completely different. I definitely reccomend checking this book out, and even though I didn’t read the first two books in the series, I slid right into the story line like it was a standalone book. Thanks for reading.

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