Under a Spell clicked with me up to the last forty pages. So many of the interactions that I would have thought had gotten old between a non-magical breather, her English-accented Guardian, a fashionista vampire, and her two hundred year old vampiric cousin eternally stuck with the looks of a sixteen year old looked […]
Under the Gun supports my running hypothesis concerning this series, i.e. the lower the stakes, the greater the pleasure. No fates of any world are thankfully entrusted to Sophie not because she can’t handle them (we know very well she can’t) but sensibly enough because it is far more enjoyable to watch her bungle […]
Under Suspicion details a rather inauspicious week or two in the life of Sophie Marceau…ah, correction…Sophie Lawson, flubbing Underworld crime fighter. Note: Underworld refers to a law firm of sorts, which, true, is well underground, about twenty floors, but specializes usually in the distribution of alimony between dragon mates, the licensing of wizards to […]
Under Attack would be better, in some ways, as a weekly strip in the funny papers alongside Garfield, gorgonzola, and briefcase-toting cavemen. The red head on the cover shares little to no athletic ability with the donut-craving klutz we are lead to believe must save the universe. This “joke”, the gun and stungun-toting […]