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  • Gotham City Sirens (2024)

    It’s been years since their original series and in the decades since fans have been clamoring for the return of Gotham’s most famous villainesses. Finally the DC gods have heard their pleas with a 4 issue mini-series. It was. . . okay. Now I’m not a regular DC comic reader so maybe there have been…

  • Book of the Month: Hemlock Island

    Yep, we’re already on the next book of the month. It was a quick read thanks to Armstrong’s exciting cliffhangers and short chapters that make one want to keep going, and going until it’s 2 in the morning and the mystery is revealed. The titular Hemlock Island is owned by author/writer, Laney. Well the cabin…

  • Twisted Tales: Princess of Thieves Review

    What if Maid Marian was the real outlaw? Three years after her beloved uncle, King Richard, and best friend, Robin of Locksley went to war, and Maid Marian went to Paris for schooling, Marian is back. The war is over and her uncle promised her a spot on his council. But she is greeted at…

  • Saddlehill Academy

    10 years since readers were introduced to Sasha Silver and Lauren Towers, and we are back! But not to the colonial greens of Canterwood Crest. Instead we head a few hours away to the rolling lawns of Saddlehill Academy where a new horse girl aspires to live up to her idols while facing drama at…

  • Asgardians: Odin Review

    Since I loved, loved, loved O’Connor’s Olympians series, I obviously had to check out his newest offering. The Asgardians! A quartet on the slightly less popular but just as well known Norse pantheon. As one can guess, the first book focuses on the All-Father, Odin, leader of the Aesir Gods and covers the creation myth…

  • Twisted Tales: Sally’s Lament Review

    What if Sally discovered Christmas Town? Dr. Finklestein rarely allows his creation to go outside his lab. She’s not ready? What more could she want? It’s safe with him? But Sally wants freedom, she wants to be apart of the community of Halloween Town. She wants more. She soon finds out that so does the…

  • Prince of Glass and Midnight

    Prince August of Charmant has simple aspirations for life. He doesn’t want to gain land or fight dragons like legendary kings because he knows wanting more leads to greedy rulers. He wants to help his kingdom and solve their problems.  He is less enthusiastic about his lonely father’s insistence that he get marry. August liked…

  • Latinx History Month

    This Could Be Us by Kennedy Ryan No, this has nothing to the controversial Blake Lively movie. I’d actually argue it is more well-written than that storyline but I digress.

  • Book of the Month: Bobbie Faye’s Very (very, very) Bad Day

    I think I covered this one quite a bit in my original review and didn’t glean new insights upon rereading it so I’ll primarily focus on my friend’s thoughts. Primarily, she thought it was hilarious and her Louisiana friend confirmed that some of the crazy situations felt like it could fit in Baton Rogue in…

  • Isabel and the Rogue Review

    Isabel Luna is like the Jan Brady of the Brady Bunch. A middle sister longing to break out of everyone’s shadow and be more than people think of her. That’s what the author initially believed of her creation too, but as you get to know Isabel, the reader and one Captain Sirius Dovan learn there’s…