Bookfessional: To be read . . . It’s so common a concept amongst avid readers that breaking down the acronym was probably unnecessary. BUT. There are as many ways of categorizing and organizing a TBR list/pile/MOUNTAIN/etc. as there are individuals who keep one. I’m pretty sure I fall on the ridiculous end of the size […]
Seanan McGuire is one of those awesome authors who constantly writes extras for her series. While some of them are found in anthologies—the bane of many thrifty readers—many more of them are available for FREE on her author website. More recently, McGuire has also been adding one additional story, usually from either her OCTOBER DAYE […]
(Minor) SPOILERS for the first two seasons are in this post. The further down you get, the bigger the potential spoiler. FYI. I unapologetically love most sci-fi TV series. Star Trek in most of its incarnations, Stargate SG-1, Stargate: Atlantis, Farscape, V, The Event, Firefly, The 100, and most recently The Expanse, but out of […]
2016 was the year of the graphic novel for me—between Fables and Monstress, I was well and truly hooked, but it was Brian K. Vaughan’s SAGA that blew my mind and showed me that, similar to (good) poetry, graphic novels could pack all the insights and feelings of a first person POV full-length novel into […]
Bookfessional: The Rules Before I started reviewing at Rabid Reads, I either liked a book or I didn’t. I didn’t analyze the whys or think critically about what specifically kept me turning the pages of one story and throwing my hands up in disgust with another. BUT. Such a laissez-faire attitude does not make for […]
Here’s the thing . . . this is a fantastically clever and beautifully written story. Valente tackles the subject of “what does it mean to be alive?” and if she left it at that, this would have easily been a 4.5 or even a 5.0 star read. But she didn’t. What I liked: She created […]
With a title like LAZARUS, it should be obvious that this graphic novel has something to do with someone coming back from the dead . . . But I didn’t really think about that (tangentially related to my reluctance to read blurbs, I think), or the implications, and I had a momentary panic attack during […]
I think I’ve been fairly upfront about my love of Marvel on Netflix. I’m a big fan of DC too . . . Hell, I just love superheroes. BUT. I have to admit, when I was settling in for my IRON FIST binge, I asked myself, “How many rich boys can go missing/presumed dead, only […]
First of all, b/c I’ve already been asked numerous times, YES, this is an entirely new trilogy, unrelated to Lawrence’s previous works. So if you tried to read PRINCE OF THORNS and DNFed it b/c you couldn’t tolerate that little shit of an MC (I’ve been assured that he gets better around 40%, but I […]
When I found out that Faith Hunter, author of beloved JANE YELLOWROCK series, was writing a new urban fantasy series about fae in my backyard (Oak Ridge, TN), I whooped. Literally. Out loud. At a convention. It was kind of embarrassing. *whispers* I got over it. And after the awesomeness that was this second installment, […]
I’ve been looking forward to getting Antimony’s POV in a full-length InCryptid novel since I read Blocked on McGuire’s website. If you haven’t read Blocked (or any of the other short stories from her or Elsie’s POV), you probably don’t know what to expect. Alex and Verity paint the youngest Price sibling in a somewhat […]