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  • Book Tie Ins

    Now I’m not talking about the junior novelizations of movies and tv show episodes. I’m talking about books that seek to expand the universe and give side characters their time in the limelight like the dozens of Star Wars books. However, I never read or seen the full Star Wars trilogy so I don’t have…

  • Book Highlight: Dangerous Creatures

    This spin off duology from Kim Garcia and Margaret Stohl’s Beautiful Creatures quartet follows fan favorites, Wesley “Link” Lincoln and Ridley Duchaness. The adorkable wannabe rocker and the emotionally-stunted bad girl of the Duchaness clan. This is mainly Ridley’s story as you can tell from the beginning that she is fully aware of her Dark…

  • Musical Books

    What are your opinions on musical books? I have read quite a few last year and thoroughly enjoy not only getting to read the lyrics with its footnotes of inspiration and changed lines (while bopping to the soundtrack, of course) but I love getting a behind the scenes look from crafting the script, finding producers,…

  • Women’s History Month Books P8

    Now for my final post for Women’s History Month. Woo woo, I can’t believe I got to 8! #NotYourPrincess by Lisa Charleyboy and Mary Beth Leatherdale This book is chock-full of essays, paintings, essays, inteviews stories and other mediums from Native American and First Nation women all over North America. It seeks to repair some…

  • Dionysos: The New God Review

    Hey, it’s my birthday and I got the final book of George O’Connor’s The Olympians series as a gift.  And is Dionysos a fitting conclusion to this 10+ year series? You bet it is.  For those who don’t know, The Olympians is a comic series tackling each god in the Greek pantheon, depicting their fantastical…

  • Book Highlight: DC Comic Bombshells

    Okay so if you are a DC fan and badass women fan, you must read Marguerite Bennet’s amazing series, DC Comic Bombshells! It has badassery, it has feminism, it has women fighting nazis, it has women fighting bigots, it has women fighting in WWII, it has Eleanor Roosevelt as President! Really what could be a…

  • Curse of the Blue Tattoo Review

    Starting right after Jacky is taken off the deck of the Dolphin, she is sent to Boston’s Peabody Lawson’s School for Young Ladies. The proper place for a female, but not the proper place for Jacky. Even though she’s determined to become a proper lady for her dear midshipman, Jaimy, our favorite sailor is meant…

  • Bobbie Faye’s Very (very, very, very) Bad Day Review

    I found this in my search for my comedoc mysteries like Stephanie Plum. While funny, I found it to be more like a comedic action flick on steroids.

  • Book Highlight: Confessions of a Slightly Neurotic Hitwoman #1-2

    I’ll confess first, I thought this was going to be another funny crime comedy book in the vein of Stephanie Plum. While it did have some aspects of that since Maggie’s concussion gave her the magical ability to understand animals, and its all based in NJ, it has a lot more heart. Maggie has issues,…

  • Things You Won’t Say Review

    This was a very timely novel in light of police brutality in the news and everywhere else.