Getting back into gear with some SFF reviews! I've been following each volume of Monstress ever since I read the first volume up on Netgalley some time ago. So this is no different, despite my not having made it to the 2019 NYCC; despite BookCon being cancelled this year. All the same, I do love [...]
Initial Thoughts: I've always been wary of AI, but then an AI mixed in with a different personality complex? Yeah, definitely worth wars being fought over. THE GHOST AND THE MACHINE by L.B. Garrison May 2020 Science fiction Rated: 3.5 / 5 cookies Desperate to pay off her debts, Mandy agrees to have her mind [...]
Initial Thoughts: I hereby apologize to all you Rhysand believers. I love him now. I didn't think I ever would even if he IS sex on a stick...but I love him now. So terribly deeply. And I love Feyre's entire growth as a character. And I absolutely loved the progression of the story and the [...]
Initial Thoughts: Can this get any more EPIC? The answer is YES. There are pirates and animalistic Arcanics (THERE'S A SHARK GIRL WHAT) and old gods that eerily remind me of Alucard's crazy demon form in Hellsing. And lawd, when's the next set coming out because MORE PLS. MONSTRESS, VOL. 2: THE BLOOD by Marjorie [...]
Initial Thoughts: A speculative Asia during the 1900s with a largely matriarchal society on BOTH sides of a brutal human-beast war? New. Favorite. Series. EVER. MONSTRESS, VOL. 1 by Marjorie M. Liu (author), Sana Takeda (illustrator) Image Comics, July 2016 Graphic novel, science fiction, fantasy Rated: 5 / 5 cookies e-ARC provided by NetGalley Set in [...]
Story and Somnomancy 