Sorry I haven’t posted all week but ill try to keep up my schedule for the next one. Its been really busy, and I just haven’t been able to post. Thanks for understanding. 😇
Month: April 2018
Coyotes, Vol. 1 (Coyotes #1-4) by Sean Lewis and Caitlin Yarsky Review
Coyotes, Vol. 1 by Sean Lewis
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Goodreads Synopsis:
Women are going missing in the City of Lost Girls, a border town in the desert. Officer Frank Coffey is trying to get to the bottom of this when he meets Red, a thirteen girl with a katana blade and a mission: murder the Werewolves stalking the border picking women off one by one. When it’s discovered that the Wolves are the men of these villages, both Red and Officer Coffey are thrown together in a thriller of mythic proportions with he lives of their friends and loved ones in the balance.
KILL BILL meets THE HOWLING in this epic by creators SEAN LEWIS and CAITLIN YARSKY.
Collects issues 1 through 4.
My Review:
I absolutely LOVED this book. Probably one of my favourite graphic novels so far this month. I loved the art especially, and the story it told was gruesome and really awesome. Basically it starts off with a lot of death, and some weird dolls. A newbie on the police force walks into a crime scene, and finds a little girl among a room full of dead bodies, the city of lost girls. At first I thought that the story was all over the place, and a little confusing, but by the end I was completely caught up in it and loved every part. It’s full of strong women, coyotes, and an interesting new take on werewolves. My favourite character was probably Duchess, and I read this book in pretty much one sitting. I can’t wait to see what’s coming next. Definitely check it out if you get the chance.
Here’s a link to the book on Amazon, and another link to the Author and Illustrator’s twitter.
https://www.amazon.ca/Coyotes-Vol-1-S…
https://twitter.com/SeanChrisLewis
https://twitter.com/yarrrsky?lang=en
Thanks for reading! Check out this review and more at my blog.
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Mail day!
Hey everyone!
Sorry I haven’t been posting much aside from reviews lately.
Would you rather I post extra review or nothing when I can’t think of topics to post about?
Anyways, I got another book in the mail the other day and I’m excited to start it when I have the time! Have any of you read it already? If so, what do you think about it?
Thanks so much to S.J. Sherwood for sending me a copy! Can’t wait to start it.
The End by M. Rose Flores Review
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Goodreads Synopsis:
On Cate Mortensen’s seventeenth birthday, her family is scattered in a fight for survival, and she and her sister Melody are catapulted headfirst into a world where their phones are just hunks of plastic, they must scavenge for every bite, and they sleep with weapons in their hands. Traveling alone, and then not so alone, they follow the route their family planned to Alcatraz Island where the hope of safety and a real life awaits.
After more than a year on the road, Cate has found three things to be true. One: Zombies are a thing now. Two: Not all zombies are just zombies. Three (the game changer): Cate is immune to the infection.
My Review:
In all honesty, this was another end of the world zombie story. They’re everywhere, due to a virus outbreak, and the main characters are constantly and easily fighting them off. The book comes from the point of view of a late teenage girl named Cate who has a lot of memories to share.
The book starts off with an entire hoard of zombies closing in on the main characters, Mel and Cate. They say, how did we not see this coming, and then kill them and continue on their way with their truck and their dog. The chapters switch between then, and now, in Cate’s mind. There’s a lot of pop culture references, and backstory for the characters. I felt like this book really told me about things instead of showing me them. Although I knew a lot about the characters, I didn’t really feel like I got to know them. It also brought up random topics like self harm out of the blue, and the characters did insane tricks with their weapons for seemingly no reason other than to be flashy. It really reminded me of a certain popular tv show that I’m not into, also about zombies.
I wanted to give it three stars, but brought it up to four because I did like how easy it was to read, even if it wasn’t the most unique. I really thought that there was going to be more of a mystery to this book, but it’s really just some characters thrown into an apocalypse setting and seeing how they survive. I liked the cover. Check it out and see what you think.
Here’s a link to the book on Amazon, and another link to the author’s twitter.
https://www.amazon.ca/End-M-Rose-Flor…
Thanks for reading! Check out this review and more at my blog.
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Past Tense by Star Spider Review
Past Tense by Star Spider
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Goodreads Synopsis:
How do you live after death?
Julie Nolan is a pretty average girl with pretty average problems. She’s been in love with her best friend, Lorelei, ever since they met in grade three. Only Lorelei doesn’t know about it — she’s too busy trying to set Julie up with Henry, her ex, who Julie finds, in a word, vapid.
But life gets more complicated when Julie comes home to find her mother insisting that her heart is gone. Pretty soon it becomes clear: Julie’s mom believes that she has died.
How is Julie supposed to navigate her first year of high school now, while she’s making midnight trips to the graveyard to cover her mother with dirt, lay flowers and make up eulogies? And why is Henry the only person Julie feels comfortable turning to? If she wants to get through this, Julie’s going to have to find the strength she never knew she had, and to learn how to listen to both her mom’s heart and her own.
My Review:
The description really drew me to this book, It seemed so different than anything else I’ve read lately. Although only in grade nine, Julie (sometimes pronounced Jewel-ie) knows she’s in love with her best friend Lorelei. She tried once to call her parents by their first names, but that just ended with her mom crying and her reverting back to calling them mom and dad. They live in modern day Toronto here in the regular world.
Though this book isn’t supernatural or anything, that doesn’t mean I didn’t enjoy it. In fact, I thought it was a well needed break from those other books. Julie’s worried Lorelei is too cool for her, too pretty and too good to date her, so she never tries anything. Then one day her world is rocked in a pretty unusual way. She comes home to find her infant brother JC (James Christopher) screaming his head off. After changing him and entertaining him a little, she’s almost certain they’re home alone, until she finds their mother standing completely still in the kitchen, unresponsive. Finally after cleaning her up she gets an answer out of her, that her heart is missing. This begins the longest part of Julie’s life so far.
Overall I really liked this book. Although the characters are a lot younger than I am, I never felt like I was too old to be reading it. Julie deals with something terrifying, but still is able to deal with it despite her life falling apart around her. It’s a really good read, and I’m glad I got the chance to read it. Definitely check it out if you get the chance.
Here’s the link to the book on Amazon, and another link to the author’s Twitter.
https://www.amazon.ca/Past-Tense-Nove…
https://twitter.com/MusingStar
Thanks for reading! Check out this review and more at my blog.
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The Diminished (Untitled Duology #1) by Kaitlyn Sage Patterson Review
The Diminished by Kaitlyn Sage Patterson
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Goodreads Synopsis:
In the Alskad Empire, nearly all are born with a twin, two halves to form one whole…yet some face the world alone.
The singleborn
A rare few are singleborn in each generation, and therefore given the right to rule by the gods and goddesses. Bo Trousillion is one of these few, born into the royal line and destined to rule. Though he has been chosen to succeed his great-aunt, Queen Runa, as the leader of the Alskad Empire, Bo has never felt equal to the grand future before him.
The diminished
When one twin dies, the other usually follows, unable to face the world without their other half. Those who survive are considered diminished, doomed to succumb to the violent grief that inevitably destroys everyone whose twin has died. Such is the fate of Vi Abernathy, whose twin sister died in infancy. Raised by the anchorites of the temple after her family cast her off, Vi has spent her whole life scheming for a way to escape and live out what’s left of her life in peace.
As their sixteenth birthdays approach, Bo and Vi face very different futures—one a life of luxury as the heir to the throne, the other years of backbreaking work as a temple servant. But a long-held secret and the fate of the empire are destined to bring them together in a way they never could have imagined.
My Review:
Honestly I really wanted to put this rating up to five stars, but I couldn’t because I just couldn’t get into the book until about three quarters of the way through. I really liked the cover, and the description sounded amazing, but the writing was a little hard to read and the story was very slow up until pretty much the end.
In a world filled with twins, Vi is one of the diminished. That means she lost her twin, and one day will succumb to the grief that comes along with that, and she will become violent. She lost her other half when she was a baby, and although she’s just approaching her sixteenth birthday at the start of the book, she’s grown up hated and feared by others, for something far out of her control. Her only friend, Sawny, is leaving her with his twin sister Lily, and she’s beside herself. Most parents dump off their “dimmy” children, because they can’t handle the stigma. She’s barely fed, and barely alive, while the temple brats around her live lavish lives. Vi is basically a slave.
Bo, on the other hand, has lived an amazing life as one of the few single born people in the world. He’s set to take over as heir to the throne on his sixteenth birthday, and although there have been a few assassination attempts throughout his life, none really stuck. He’s royalty by blood, and that’s how he’ll stay. Though they live completely different lives, they’re both filled with an unimaginable amount of loneliness, being surrounded by twins constantly. The book switches viewpoints between the two characters.
Although I really enjoyed the last quarter of the book, the rest of it was a slow burn, so slowly in fact that I found myself reading for hours and still getting nowhere with this story. I was so bummed out by that, because it sounded amazing and like something I would love. Although I’m still interested in what happens next with the characters and the world they’re in, I’m hoping that it picks up a little faster than this one did. Check it out and see what you think.
Here’s a link to the book on Amazon, and another link to the authors Twitter.
https://www.amazon.ca/Diminished-Kait…
https://twitter.com/verykaitlynsage
Thanks for reading! Check out this review and more at my blog.
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Ace of Shades (The Shadow Game #1) by Amanda Foody Review
Ace of Shades by Amanda Foody
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Goodreads Synopsis:
Welcome to the City of Sin, where casino families reign, gangs infest the streets…
and secrets hide in every shadow.
Enne Salta was raised as a proper young lady, and no lady would willingly visit New Reynes, the so-called City of Sin. But when her mother goes missing, Enne must leave her finishing school—and her reputation—behind to follow her mother’s trail to the city where no one survives uncorrupted.
Frightened and alone, her only lead is a name: Levi Glaisyer. Unfortunately, Levi is not the gentleman she expected—he’s a street lord and a con man. Levi is also only one payment away from cleaning up a rapidly unraveling investment scam, so he doesn’t have time to investigate a woman leading a dangerous double life. Enne’s offer of compensation, however, could be the solution to all his problems.
Their search for clues leads them through glamorous casinos, illicit cabarets and into the clutches of a ruthless mafia donna. As Enne unearths an impossible secret about her past, Levi’s enemies catch up to them, ensnaring him in a vicious execution game where the players always lose. To save him, Enne will need to surrender herself to the city…
And she’ll need to play.
My Review:
Erienne Abacus Salta, or Enne, is seventeen years old, and on a mission. Her mother told her four months ago that if she wasn’t back in two months, she was dead. She’s been on a boat for fifteen days, and at the beginning of the book, has just landed in the City of Sin, New Reynes. It’s not a place for children or for girls like Enne, but she has to find out what happened. All she has is her rules, and a strange token. Every person in this world has two powers or talents, inherited from each parent. The stronger one is called the blood talent, and the lesser is called the split talent. Hers is dancing and math, although she’s never been very good at math. This book is exciting and completely different than any of the other books I’ve read lately. I read it in one sitting, and I couldn’t wait to see what happened next.
The viewpoints switch between Enne, and an eighteen year old boy named Levi, who’s talents are sensing auras and making orbs. Although, he doesn’t really use the second one anymore, he’s the Lord of the Irons, a well known street gang. Everyone in it has a distinct tattoo on their forearms, the symbol of a card. He meets Enne when he tries to steal her money, but instead finds a note from her mother and changes his mind. He doesn’t want to help her, but she says she’ll pay him and he’s in no position to decline money. An unlikely pair, but they spend most of the book together hunting down secrets.
Basically this book is one big thrilling scavenger hunt. The world is so unlike our own, using powers and orbs to hold their currency, volts, but some things never change, like the gangs. The characters are so realistic and exciting and I’m really glad I got to know them. They developed so much throughout this book, and I can’t wait to see what happens in the next one. I really chose this book because I liked the cover and the description sounded good, but I didn’t expect to like it this much. It has everything, mysteries, murder, a little bit of romance, and just the right amount of danger to pull everything together. Definitely check it out if you get the chance.
Here’s a link to the book on Amazon, and another link to the authors twitter.
https://www.amazon.ca/Ace-Shades-Aman…
https://twitter.com/AmandaFoody
Thanks for reading! Check out this review and more at my blog.
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Retcon, Vol. 1: Reverse Engineered by Matt Nixon, & Toby Cypress Review
Retcon, Vol. 1: Reverse Engineered by Matt Nixon
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Goodreads Synopsis:
Binder and the team make another go at saving the world but it won’t be enough. Watch them fail again for the first time.
Collects issues 1 through 4.
My Review:
You ever just know you’re going to like a book from the cover? That’s this one, for me. I really enjoyed the style of the art, it’s a lot different than any of the other ones I’ve read lately. It starts out with an old man with a big mouth. He’s in an alcoholics anonymous meeting, spilling all the government secrets he can, and showing proof. Of course that can’t happen, so people are in place to take him down.
Overall I really liked reading this and I can’t even imagine what will happen next, I love it. This story is crazy and supernatural. I didn’t want to put it down, and when I was done I just wanted to read another volume. It has everything, it’s thrilling and mysterious, but also gory and exciting. It has genies, demons, demon handlers, werebears, witches and who knows what else? Definitely check it out if you get the chance.
Here’s a link to the book on Amazon, and another link to the Author and Artist’s Twitter.
https://www.amazon.ca/Retcon-Reverse-…
https://twitter.com/mattnixon?lang=en
https://twitter.com/punkrockjazz?lang=en
Thanks for reading! Check out this review and more at my blog.
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Gasolina, Vol. 1 by Sean Mackiewicz, Niko Walter, & Mat Lopes Review
Gasolina, Vol. 1 by Sean Mackiewicz
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Goodreads Synopsis:
Fugitives. Rebels. Newlyweds. In their journey south from El Norte, Amalia and Randy have played many roles in order to survive. Now, they must become unlikely leaders in the fight against a new cartel, who uses inhuman tactics to ignite the most monstrous war Mexico–and the world–has ever seen.
Everything burns in this new series from creators Sean Mackiewicz and Niko Walter, where love and devotion can only be measured in fire and blood.
Collects GASOLINA #1-6.
My Review:
I wasn’t exactly sure what this book was going to be about, but the cover and the description combined convinced me to give it a chance. Inside is a horrible (in the best way possible) and exciting book that I didn’t expect to love as much as I did. The art style is a lot different than the other graphic novels I’ve read lately, and at the end all I could think about was how much I wanted to read the next volume. It starts off with two people chatting in a field, with a big bonfire burning in the background. There’s all these weird beetles, and you just know there’s gonna be a good mystery. No one really knows why, but dead bodies have been turning up all over the place with various gore. Some have their heads chopped of, some are covered in these weird bites, and a lot of them end up being burned. The local police thinks it’s some kind of big cartel thing, but what they don’t know is that it’s really some kind of weird death cult.
I absolutely loved reading this, and I didn’t want to put it down for a second in case I missed something. The gore is awesome and cartoony in a way I didn’t expect. I’m really glad I got the chance to read it, and you should definitely check it out if you get the chance.
Here’s a link to the authors Twitter, and another link to the book on Amazon.
https://twitter.com/SeanMackiewicz
https://twitter.com/_matlopes_
https://www.amazon.ca/Gasolina-1-Sean…
Thanks for reading! Check out this review and more at my blog.
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March Favourite
Hi! Happy Easter to those who celebrate it.
Sorry I didn’t post much aside from reviews last week. Been really busy, but I’m staying up late trying to get stuff done. Anyways, how are you? Lets move on.
Although I read a lot of really good books for this month, two really stood out for me and those two are;
SINdicate by J.T Nicholas,
And
How to Appear Normal at Social Events: And Other Essential Wisdom by Lord Birthday
Those two books were amazing in completely different ways! Ill link the reviews for both below. Definitely check them out if you get the chance!
SINdicate (The New Lyons Sequence #2) by J.T. Nicholas Review
How to Appear Normal at Social Events: And Other Essential Wisdom by Lord Birthday Review
Thanks for reading!
Let me know what you thought about those books, or what your favourite books were that you read last month!
Hope you have a good night.
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