Archives for April 2016

(ARC) REVIEW • Baby Didn’t Burn (Burning by Danielle Rollins)

April 8, 2016 Comments : 5

Burning

Tucked away, deep in the woods, Brunesfield Correctional Facility’s cold walls and empty hallways keep dangerous girls away from the world . . . girls like Angela Davis, whose fate was determined by one bad decision. After a few years in juvie, Angela is finally close to her release, but everything changes the day a new warden with dark plans takes over. Angela knows evil when she sees it, and as strange disappearances and frightening incidents happen more and more frequently, it becomes clear that Brunesfield could be the end of them. Angela and her friends must find a way to get out, but how can they save themselves from very place keeping them locked away?[/note]

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[note note_color=”#BFD1D1″ text_color=”#ffffff”]I received this book for free from Bloomsbury for review consideration. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.[/note]

First sentence: “Peach sneers at us.”

Why I wanted to read Burning: It was marketed as Orange is the New Black meets Carrie, and well, I was intrigued! I needed a bit of creepiness in my life, and did Burning manage to deliver? Ehhh, it was simply okay.

Comics

Image Expo • Future Image Comics Releases

April 7, 2016 Comments : 2

from panel to panel

I love comics and graphic novels, so what do I do with that love? Well, I turn it into a new feature!

From Panel to Panel is a new feature where I talk about the awesome (and perhaps not-so awesome) comic books and graphic novels I’ve read. Basically, this will be me pushing them onto your laps. You’re welcome.

Holy, comics galore! This is what we’ve been waiting for—the time of the year when Image Comics announces a bunch of awesome new comics they’re going to publish in the next year. April 6th was that day! What an exciting morning!

In Seattle, Image Expo announced many awesome new comic series in Image Comic’s future. And guys, we may be waiting a while for these comics, but they need to be on your radar. There’s astral projectors, ballerina-spies, vigilantism, alien invasions to stop an Earth invasion, Black Monday and magic, and much more.

*GLITTERBOMB*

[note note_color=”#F4744D” text_color=”#ffffff”]WRITER: Jim Zub (Wayward)
ARTIST: Djibril Morissette-Phan
COLORIST: K. Michael Russell (Hack/Slash: Son of Samhain, Judge Dredd)
LETTERER: Marshall Dillon
TENTATIVE RELEASE DATE: Late Summer 2016[/note]

WHAT IS THIS ABOUT? Fame always comes with a price. For Farrah, the main character of Glitterbomb, she can’t get any film or TV roles due to her age, and because of whatever situations, she finds herself becoming “a conduit for supernatural forces when her entertainment career fails to take off.”¹ It will explore fame culture and revenge. According to Zub, this actress “wants to tear this Hollywood system down, and she’s doing to do it in the most violent, horrific way possible.”² (Get an exclusive look at the story and the art at AV Club.)

WHY I’M EXCITED ABOUT THIS: Love the art + fascinated by fame culture and how this comic will tackle it with supernatural elements.

Reviews

(ARC) REVIEW • A Tale of Magic and Doppelgängers (Tell the Wind and Fire by Sarah Rees Brennan)

April 5, 2016 Comments : 5

Tell the Wind and Fire

In a city divided between opulent luxury in the Light and fierce privations in the Dark, a determined young woman survives by guarding her secrets.

Lucie Manette was born in the Dark half of the city, but careful manipulations won her a home in the Light, celebrity status, and a rich, loving boyfriend. Now she just wants to keep her head down, but her boyfriend has a dark secret of his own—one involving an apparent stranger who is destitute and despised. Lucie alone knows the young men’s deadly connection, and even as the knowledge leads her to make a grave mistake, she can trust no one with the truth.

Blood and secrets alike spill out when revolution erupts. With both halves of the city burning, and mercy nowhere to be found, can Lucie save either boy—or herself?[/note]

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[note note_color=”#BFD1D1″ text_color=”#ffffff”]I received this book for free from HMH Books for Young Readers for review consideration. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.[/note]

First sentence: “It was the best of times until it was the worst of times.”

Was A Tale of Two Cities as convoluted as Tell the Wind and Fire? (Probably, because it is a Dickens’ book.)

What you get in Tell the Wind and Fire are the following: a city divided into the Light and the Dark; a story inspired by A Tale of Two Cities but with magic; a complicated relationship between Light and Dark that sparks unrest on both sides; a girl born in the Dark, but escaped by manipulating the system; doppelgängers born from death; revolutionaries, and so much more.

Discussion

TOO MUCH TBR · April 2016

April 4, 2016 Comments : 7

april tbr

March, what a month! It was, by far, the best reading and review month ever. I don’t know if April can top it. I’m hoping because I have a bunch of books to get through. Book Gods, please give me the mood to read all the April releases I need to get through!

For those who do not know, Too Much TBR is a way to help me see which books I really need to read and tackle them. Is it effective? Perhaps. It helps a lot seeing a visual of the books on my TBR pile.

Let’s discuss what I read last month, and what I’m reading this month!

Comics

FROM PANEL TO PANEL · What do you call a city with no name? (The Nameless City by Faith Erin Hicks)

April 2, 2016 Comments : 3

Ask four different groups of people what city you’ve stepped into, and you’ll be told different names. Daidu, Yanjing, Monkh, DanDao, what is this city’s name?

For the natives—the ones who were born and raised on the land—they simply call it The Nameless City.

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