The long-awaited ninth book in Kazu Kibuishi’s young adult graphic novel Amulet series, “Waverider”, is here, and it is a fun, exciting, worthy concluThe long-awaited ninth book in Kazu Kibuishi’s young adult graphic novel Amulet series, “Waverider”, is here, and it is a fun, exciting, worthy conclusion to an excellent sci-fi/fantasy series.
Emily has uncovered the true powers of the Stonekeepers, and she has also discovered the origins of IKOL and the shadow creatures. Now, she must use her knowledge to save her family and the rest of the galaxy…
I can’t say more than that. Spoilers, you understand.
Seriously, this nine-book series is great. Highly recommended for readers of all ages....more
A cleverly disguised criticism of religion and the magical thinking associated with religious belief systems, Yann Martel's "Life of Pi" was an engagiA cleverly disguised criticism of religion and the magical thinking associated with religious belief systems, Yann Martel's "Life of Pi" was an engaging fantasy-adventure novel about a young boy shipwrecked on the high seas on a life-raft with a Bengal tiger.
This is one of those books that requires careful reading, as the narrator is, as one discovers over the course of the novel, extremely unreliable. But is his unreliability purposeful or is it a necessary and involuntary self-defense mechanism to a traumatic event that he is unable to deal with? It's up to the reader to decide.
Beautifully written and thought-provoking, "Life of Pi" was made into a decent film. The book was better....more
The third volume of BRZRKR brings to a satisfactory conclusion certainly one of the more fun if not extremely violent action-adventure graphic novel sThe third volume of BRZRKR brings to a satisfactory conclusion certainly one of the more fun if not extremely violent action-adventure graphic novel series in recent memory.
Written by Keanu Reeves and Matt Kindt, the series is just begging to be made into an HBOMax or Netflix series or a three-part movie series, starring Reeves.
While relatively short on plot, the series isn’t vapid or one-note. There’s a surprising amount of depth. Just not a lot of actual story, and what story is there is actually kind of confusing. It has a lot of moving parts but not a lot of explanation for them. Not that this detracts from the fun in any way.
What started out as a clever pastiche of Conan the Barbarian, John Wick, and The Punisher has become somewhat more of a weird science-fictional Messiah story, as the title character—-a man simply called B.—-finds out where he came from and what his ultimate purpose is.
There’s certainly nothing ambiguous about the ending, which adequately concludes the narrative arc while leaving it wide open for a sequel....more
The graphic novel series BRZRKR, written by Keanu Reeves and Matt Kindt, continues the story of the man known only as B in the second volume, compilinThe graphic novel series BRZRKR, written by Keanu Reeves and Matt Kindt, continues the story of the man known only as B in the second volume, compiling issues #5-8.
The story is a mash-up of Conan the Barbarian and John Wick, if Conan had god-like powers, was immortal, and was recruited by the United States military as one of their best assassins.
In this volume: B laments his immortality, as everyone he has ever grown attached to eventually dies while he stays young; we find out a little bit more about B’s benefactor, an extremely wealthy archaeologist looking for an ancient artifact that may hold the key to B’s origins and immortality; an experiment results in many human casualties and sends B into another dimension…
A bit more depth in this volume, and certainly toned-down on the ultra violence compared to the first volume. I’m looking forward to the third, and final, volume of this series....more
"The Courts of Chaos" is the fifth and final book in Roger Zelazny's Amber series. Rather, it is the final book in the first five-book cycle. There ar"The Courts of Chaos" is the fifth and final book in Roger Zelazny's Amber series. Rather, it is the final book in the first five-book cycle. There are five more books after this, and while I may read them someday, I'm okay with ending the series at this point.
In this book, Corwin finds out what happened to his father, who the real traitor is, what is happening to Amber, and how to stop the end of the world. All the while, he meets talking trees and animals along the way and reunites with his brother and sisters.
The conclusion is satisfactory, but I'll be honest: I just wasn't fully invested in this series to care much whether Corwin saves the day or not. I love Zelazny as a writer, but this fantasy series just kind of confirms my disinterest in the whole sword-and-sorcery fantasy genre. To me, it felt like a Dungeons & Dragons game, and I've never been a D&D fan....more
Corwin’s quest to find the traitor amongst his brothers and sisters of Amber continues. His travels and adventures in “The Hand of Oberon”, the fourthCorwin’s quest to find the traitor amongst his brothers and sisters of Amber continues. His travels and adventures in “The Hand of Oberon”, the fourth book in Roger Zelazny’s Amber series, continues, and he uncovers more clues and revelations about what happened to him, his missing father, and Amber.
Zelazny is a really good writer, which is, sadly, one of the only reasons I’m continuing on with this series, as I have, with each book, become more certain of my dislike for this type of fantasy. Perhaps ‘dislike’ is too harsh. It’s just more of a lack of enthusiasm or interest.
The next book is, supposedly, the climactic conclusion of the five-book series. (At least, the first five-book cycle. Zelazny later wrote five more.) ...more
"The Sign of the Unicorn", Roger Zelazny's third book in his Amber series, may be the turning point for me. While I enjoyed it and found nothing overt"The Sign of the Unicorn", Roger Zelazny's third book in his Amber series, may be the turning point for me. While I enjoyed it and found nothing overtly wrong with it, I began to have the sinking feeling that the rest of the series is going to be more of the same, which is what I was afraid of, as I am not normally a lover of this type of sword-and-sorcery fantasy.
It's the same reason I couldn't read past the second book in George R.R. Martin's Game of Thrones series: too many characters to keep track of, all of whom are bent on killing or overthrowing the other characters. There's lots of alliance-building, raising armies, magical conjurings, yadda yadda yadda, but to what end? Unfortunately, there is no end. It just keeps going.
The Amber series seems like it's more of the same. I'm beginning to worry, as it is a 10-book series (technically, two 5-book cycles), and rumor has it that Zelazny never actually finished the series.
I'll cross that bridge when I come to it. "The Sign of the Unicorn" was still entertaining. Corwin begins to piece together his past he can't remember due to amnesia, and he isn't sure who among his many siblings to trust. Some heavy life-(and world-) changing revelations are dropped.
Corwin of Amber has escaped the dungeon of his brother, Eric, who has usurped the throne. Along his travels, he meets fellow soldiers, one named GanelCorwin of Amber has escaped the dungeon of his brother, Eric, who has usurped the throne. Along his travels, he meets fellow soldiers, one named Ganelon, and another a lost young knight named Lancelot. Corwin travels to the land of Avalon, where he meets his brother Benedict, one of the few siblings he actually likes and isn’t trying to actively kill him.
Thus begins Roger Zelazney’s 1972 novel “The Guns of Avalon”, the second book in his high fantasy series Chronicles of Amber.
Guns and ammo from our world (which is part of the Shadow realm) don’t work in Amber. Corwin, however, discovers an alternative magical resource to replace gunpowder which allows guns to work in Amber. This could change things dramatically for the forces fighting against King Eric.
A strange young woman named Dara comes across Corwin in the woods. She claims to be the great-great-grandchild of Benedict. If true, her very existence could be a threat to Benedict. Corwin and Benedict have brothers who have no scruples and could use that knowledge against Benedict…
More fun Tolkein-esque fantasy adventure abounds within these pages, and fans of the sword-and-sorcery genre will probably love this. I’m enjoying the series so far, but I’m only in the second book. I’ll be honest: I may grow bored with the same old stuff in later books, as there are 10 books in the series....more
I’ll preface this review by saying that I received Kristen Simmons’s book “Find Him Where You Left Him Dead” as a giveaway from Goodreads and Tor PublI’ll preface this review by saying that I received Kristen Simmons’s book “Find Him Where You Left Him Dead” as a giveaway from Goodreads and Tor Publishing. Thanks to both for the free copy.
Four years ago, five eighth-grade friends walked into a cave to play a game. Only four of them walked out. Nobody knew what happened to the fifth. At least, nobody was talking.
Now, Madeline spends every waking moment studying or swimming. Emerson plays video games all day. Owen is obsessively into theatre. Dax is a drop-out who plays guitar at a coffeehouse where nobody pays him any attention. None of them have really spoken to each other in years.
One night, each of them is visited by the ghost of their missing friend, Ian, who tells them to play the game again, before dawn, so he can come back.
Thus begins Kristen Simmons’s young adult horror novel “Find Him Where You Left Him Dead”, which reads like a dark-fantasy “Jumanji” based on Japanese folklore.
Simmons does several things well in this. She creates very real, believable, and likable teen characters, all of whom would fare well in a Stephen King novel. She also sets the book, from page one, at a frenetic pace, one that keeps the reader intrigued and guessing all the way through.
She also incorporates a lot of fascinating Japanese folklore in this, much of which is downright creepy. (This may be why Japanese horror movies are some of the creepiest damn horror movies.) From the legendary monsters such as oni and tengu to the female demon Kuchisake-onna with her “Joker”-like ear-to-ear smile, “FHWYLHD” is populated with some intensely horrifying monsters.
My one complaint with all this is that Simmons doesn’t provide a lot of exposition—-usually a good thing. In this case, however, a few more expository sentences may have come in handy to explain what these Japanese demons and creatures were and their cultural significance. A minor complaint, though, as I thought the use of real folkloric legends was way cool.
Overall, this was a very exciting YA horror novel, full of plot twists and believable teen drama. (Simmons is, according to her bio, a mental health therapist specializing in trauma survivors, so a lot of the stuff these kids are going through feels very authentic.) It also hints at a possible sequel and series....more
Quentin Tarantino wowed me with his book “Cinema Speculation”, a wonderful nonfiction book about the movies that made Tarantino the man and the directQuentin Tarantino wowed me with his book “Cinema Speculation”, a wonderful nonfiction book about the movies that made Tarantino the man and the director he is today. It was a gorgeous thought-provoking love-letter to cinema of a specific era, that era being the late-‘60s and early-‘70s.
I picked up his novelization of his film “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”, but I honestly didn’t think I was going to like it, for two main reasons: 1) I honestly believed that Tarantino’s brilliance in “Cinema Speculation” was a one-off, not necessarily because I didn’t think he could pull off another excellent book or that he couldn’t possibly be as talented of a novel-writer as he was a screenwriter or director, but simply because I thought that “Cinema Speculation” was so good that it would be hard for him to replicate it. (Never mind, of course, that “OUATIH” was published a year BEFORE “Cinema Speculation”, but whatever…) and 2) I had seen the movie “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” and, while I enjoyed it (I’ll be honest: there hasn’t been a Tarantino movie I haven’t enjoyed), I felt that it was his most flawed film to date and I had problems with the ending, that being the “fairy tale” alternate reality ending in which the lovely Sharon Tate et al. at 10050 Cielo Drive, Los Angeles, CA were not brutally murdered by four brainwashed hippies under the insane orders of Charles Manson. Honestly, I shed a few tears at the end, knowing that Tarantino’s ending was bullshit but also knowing that I wish it had happened the way Tarantino envisioned it, which, I know, was most likely his point.
So, I read the novelization.
I need to say it: it’s excellent. Fucking brilliant. And it’s also not a novelization. It’s a novel, and a damn good one. It also has very little resemblance to the film. A few scenes from the film made it into the book, but there were a lot of scenes I don’t remember seeing. (I have a feeling some of these scenes show up on the DVD bonus features or in a “Director’s Cut” version that I have not seen yet.)
The book is so different from the film that they are almost two separate entities with only the barest of similarities. This is, in my opinion, a positive.
Tarantino has written a novel that tells a beautiful story about the death of Old Hollywood, the big-studio machine that essentially controlled and helped create the City of Angels. He tells it in the story of has-been actor Rick Dalton (played by Leonardo DiCaprio in the film), stuck in the weird limbo period of the late-‘60s when big-studio Hollywood was transitioning to the New Wave of the ‘70s, in which a slew of independent and European filmmakers would reshape the market and the entire film industry in less than a decade.
There’s little to no room for old-school actors like Dalton, condemned to playing guest appearances as villains on TV westerns and cop shows. His alcoholism doesn’t help. Thankfully, he has Cliff Booth, his former stunt man/current driver/best friend (played by Brad Pitt in the film). Cliff is a good guy, if one can forgive his past transgressions, which include murdering several people including his wife and getting away with it.
Both men represent a dying breed, struggling to hold on to the only world they know and pushing back against all the crazy changes they see in the world around them, changes that they secretly know that they need to embrace in order to keep going in Tinsel Town.
I’m not sure why Tarantino chose to downplay the violence and the emphasis on the Manson Family in the novel, but it was, in the end, the right decision. This book is not about Charles Manson or the murder of Sharon Tate. It’s about Rick and Cliff.
I don’t care what the fuck Tarantino writes about in his next book, but I sure as fuck look forward to reading it....more
I’ll preface this review by saying that I received Israh Azizi’s novel “Heroes of the Empire: Book 1: The Cavalier” as a giveaway from Goodreads and PI’ll preface this review by saying that I received Israh Azizi’s novel “Heroes of the Empire: Book 1: The Cavalier” as a giveaway from Goodreads and Page Turner Press. Thanks to both for the free copy.
I’ve been burned in the past by independent and vanity press publications. Most of them look like they are independently published—-atrocious cover art, marginless text, ugly font that looks like it came off a workplace printer—-which, to be fair, isn’t a reason to dislike the book. What usually seals the deal is that it is coupled with god-awful writing—-stale plots, cardboard characters, and thinly-veiled proselytizing of a political agenda.
So, I honestly wasn’t expecting much from Israh Azizi’s young adult fantasy novel, “Heroes of the Empire: Book 1: The Cavalier” (henceforth simply called “The Cavalier”), despite the fact that I was quite enamored by the beautiful cover art and intrigued by the fact that it had a gold embossed “Book Fest Award Winner” emblem on the cover.
I’ll be honest: I’ve never heard of The Book Fest, but I looked it up, and it appears to be a legitimate organization of writers and readers online where authors can submit their books to be judged in different categories every Spring and Fall. It seems to specialize in vanity publishing. Azizi’s “The Cavalier” won a first place award in the YA fantasy/action-adventure category.
All well and good, but I’m not one to necessarily be taken in by accolades and awards.
All of this is a prelude to this sentence: I was not expecting to love this book as much as I did.
“The Cavalier” brought me back to a time in my early book-reading days when the act of reading was like an extreme sport. It took me back to when I first discovered that books could open doors to whole new worlds. It made me reconnect with why I love reading in the first place.
The novel is a well-constructed fantasy world with fully-developed characters. It is “A Game of Thrones” meets “A Knight’s Tale”. There are elements of Narnia, Middle-Earth, Star Wars and “The Hunger Games”, among other subtle references that allude to the books that Azizi clearly has read and loved.
She has created a believable protagonist in Velamir, a warrior-in-training for a war between four kingdoms. He has been trained, from a very young age, to believe that he is fighting on the side of justice. He believes he is one of the good guys.
Natassa is the daughter of the Emperor. She has begun to understand that her father is not the just and kind ruler that his people seem to think he is.
Two characters on opposite sides of a war will cross paths and re-shape an uncertain future for their world.
I truly loved this book, and my only complaint is that I have no idea how long I have to wait for the second book. Keep writing, Ms. Azizi! ...more
The third volume of Simon Spurrier’s graphic novel series The Dreaming, “One Magical Movement”, finally answers some of the questions from the previouThe third volume of Simon Spurrier’s graphic novel series The Dreaming, “One Magical Movement”, finally answers some of the questions from the previous two volumes but leaves a lot more unanswered. While I enjoyed the story overall, I’m not gonna lie: it’s a bit hectic and confusing at times, with a lot of narrative threads that simply got tied up and sometimes went nowhere. I understand Spurrier was trying a “stream-of-consciousness” kind of thing—you know, to simulate dreams and stuff—but I felt that Neil Gaiman did it much better in the original Sandman comic book series. It helps to have read that series prior to this anyway, but that doesn’t explain all the confusion. Overall, what saved this for me was the beautiful artwork (Bilquis Evely—I adore you!) and the return to the universe of Gaiman’s Sandman. If it succeeds in anything, The Dreaming is a reminder of how special and wonderful the original series was....more
Not sure what the hell is going on in Simon Spurrier’s The Dreaming Volume Two: “Empty Shells”, but I’ll be honest: I just like it for the pretty pictNot sure what the hell is going on in Simon Spurrier’s The Dreaming Volume Two: “Empty Shells”, but I’ll be honest: I just like it for the pretty pictures anyway. Bilquis Evely and Abigail Larson provide some of the best, dreamy comic book artwork I’ve seen in a while. The artwork reminds me enough of the original Sandman artwork to make me momentarily forget that this is not written by Neil Gaiman. There’s a helluva lot of characters rambling on about… stuff. Some of it’s interesting, some of it is incomprehensible. There’s a lady with a heart-shaped cigarette lighter who has a daughter who dated the Lord of Dreams but gave him a tattoo which made him vulnerable and weak and it looks like Desire had something to do with it and, meanwhile, in the Dreaming, the bug-eyed giant moth-child that now rules the Dreaming is trying to figure out what certain things mean, like dreams, and the House of Mystery is on fire but nobody cares because everybody’s stuck in an endless story-within-a-story until Nora comes along and saves the day. Anyway, that’s my take-away…...more
The second, and final, issue of Joe Hill/Gabriel Rodriguez's "Locke & Key" cross-over event with Neil Gaiman's "The Sandman" is awesome. Mary Locke, dThe second, and final, issue of Joe Hill/Gabriel Rodriguez's "Locke & Key" cross-over event with Neil Gaiman's "The Sandman" is awesome. Mary Locke, donning the Dream Lord's magical regalia and cleverly making a copy of Lucifer's Key to Hell, goes to Hell in search of her twin brother, killed in Europe during the War. With the help of Fiddler's Green and Etrigan the Demon, Mary wages war against Lucifer's army. Her secret weapon? The enemy's serious underestimation of her... ...more
In today’s episode of “The Bold and the Barbaric”, a.k.a. The Savage Avengers Volume 5, subtitled “The Defilement of All Things By The Cannibal-SorcerIn today’s episode of “The Bold and the Barbaric”, a.k.a. The Savage Avengers Volume 5, subtitled “The Defilement of All Things By The Cannibal-Sorcerer Kulan Gath” (I shit you not: that is the friggin’ title on the cover…), which happens to be a special Christmas issue: Dr. Strange meets an old friend on the street, Shuma Gorath, who is now homeless and wounded, so Strange invites him in to the Sanctum for tea and crumpets; Kang the Conquerer wants to buy She-Hulk a nice present, so he sells his banjo to pay for a gold brush, only to find that She-Hulk cut off all of her hair to sell it in order to pay for a golden pick for Kang; Dr. Doom is visited by three ghosts at midnight, and he evaporates them with his soul-destroying photon blaster; Conan travels back in time to kill young Kulan Gath, before the evil sorcerer becomes evil, but instead of striking the innocent child dead, Conan teaches him the ways of the barbarian—swordplay, bloodletting, rending of flesh, taking women by force—-and Santa Claus rewards him with a new golden battle-axe, which Conan promptly uses to bash Santa Claus’s brains in. *
Merry X-mas!
*This is not at all what happens in this book, btw. ...more
Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman Book Two, in which: Dream’s sister, Death, reveals to him that he has a pretty horrible track record with women because he’sNeil Gaiman’s The Sandman Book Two, in which: Dream’s sister, Death, reveals to him that he has a pretty horrible track record with women because he’s kind of a dick, and, surprisingly, he agrees; out of a sense of guilt, Morpheus travels to Hell to save an ex-girlfriend that he had banished there several thousand years ago because she wouldn’t be his queen (total dick move); expecting to go to war with Hell, Morpheus finds that Lucifer has just up and quit, unleashing all the demons and the dead unto Earth and other realms and leaving Morpheus the keys to Hell; Gods and deities are flocking to the Dreaming to strike a deal with Morpheus in regards to taking possession of the keys; Barbie (a character from “The Doll’s House”) has lost her connection with her dream-world, which has serious repercussions in the Dreaming and the real world; the tragic story of Orpheus, son of Morpheus, is told, revealing that not only was Morpheus a shitty boyfriend but also a shitty dad…
It’s hard to believe that these stories are thirty years old, as they seem as fresh and exciting as they were when I first read them in high school. ...more
Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman is, by far, my favorite comic book series of all time. I have recently taken to re-reading them from the beginning and, unliNeil Gaiman’s The Sandman is, by far, my favorite comic book series of all time. I have recently taken to re-reading them from the beginning and, unlike many other things I treasured from childhood in the ‘80s (the TV show “The Dukes of Hazzard”, the movie “The Lost Boys”, just to name two), they have managed to remain cool as hell.
It was with some trepidation that I picked up Simon Spurrier’s graphic novel series The Dreaming, which is set in the Sandman universe. I wasn’t sure about it, mainly because Neil Gaiman had very little to do with it. (He’s credited as having written the story that Spurrier and other writers have fleshed out in comic book form.) Even though I have read other stuff by Spurrier and recognize that he is a good writer, the fact remains: he is not Gaiman.
Volume One, “Pathways and Emanations”, starts much the same way that the original Sandman series started back in 1988: Dream (a.k.a. Morpheus a.k.a. the Lord of Dreams, one of the all-powerful Endless) has gone missing from the Dreaming, the world that exists between wakefulness and sleep.
Lucien, left in charge of the Dreaming, tasks Matthew, the raven, with trying to find the Lord of Dreams, with no success. The Dreaming, meanwhile, is falling apart. Again. And the inhabitants—-dreams and nightmares alike—-are beginning to form factions against one another. Add to the mix an ominous figure that has escaped from a prison that Morpheus put him in eons ago, Judge Gallows, and a strange geometric apparition that seems to be alive and growing.
I’m not sure how, but Spurrier (and a team of other writers) manages to succeed in creating an excellent and exciting new chapter in the Sandman mythos. Perhaps Spurrier’s saucy humor (his extremely subtle rips on Trump and his followers will not go unnoticed), the numerous references to previous Sandman storylines, and the wonderful artwork by Bilquis Evely (and a team of other artists) are the reason for the success....more
Things are coming to an exciting climax in Kazu Kibuishi’s eighth book in the Amulet graphic novel series, “Supernova”. A space fleet has been launcheThings are coming to an exciting climax in Kazu Kibuishi’s eighth book in the Amulet graphic novel series, “Supernova”. A space fleet has been launched to the planet that seems to be the source of the shadow-creatures that are slowly taking over all the planets in the galaxy, including Earth. Emily is stuck in the form of the fiery bird-creature, but there is still a remnant within that is human and fighting against the Voice. Prince Trellis has rightly taken his place as leader of the Elves after it is revealed that his father, the Elf-King, died many years ago and his body was possessed by the Voice.
Book Nine is shaping up to be the final battle between the Voice and the stonekeepers. I can’t wait… ...more
Halloween is right around the corner. To celebrate and get in the spirit, I have been reading a plethora of spooky novels that have been on my list foHalloween is right around the corner. To celebrate and get in the spirit, I have been reading a plethora of spooky novels that have been on my list for years. One of those is Roger Zelazny’s “A Night in Lonesome October”. Published in 1993, the book was, sadly, the last book Zelazny published before he died two years later.
I had heard about this book (on Goodreads, of course), but it was just one of those “to read” books that sat on my virtual shelf for years. It is often rated up there with Ray Bradbury’s “The October Country” and on lists with books by Neil Gaiman and Clive Barker.
But wait: isn’t Zelazny best known for his science fiction? Why is he listed with authors better known for horror or dark fantasy?
Who cares? “A Night in Lonesome October” is a great book, regardless of how one classifies it. Straddling a fine line between cosmic horror, Victorian-era gothic romance, and dark comedy, Zelazny’s novel is a love letter to old monster movies and classic horror authors like Mary Shelley, Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, H.P. Lovecraft, and Ray Bradbury (a contemporary of Zelazny’s but clearly one he respected enough to emulate).
It probably won’t be spoiling anything by saying that the novel is narrated by an intrepid hound-dog named Snuff. His job is to keep Things from escaping into our world. His master, Jack, is a sorcerer of some kind. They are involved in a particular Game, one that has been played for eons. Its players are playing for high stakes: on the one side are those that want to open the inter-dimensional gates to let in the Elder Gods, which would mean the end of humanity as we know it. On the other side, of course, are those that want to close the gates and let humanity live.
The players are: the Good Doctor and his hulking Experiment, a man apparently built from body parts of other men; Larry Talbot, who is cursed to turn into a werewolf every full moon; the Vicar, who appears to be grooming his own stepdaughter to be a sacrifice to the Elder Gods; the Count, a very old vampire from the Old Country; and a sorceress named Jill. Oh, and don’t forget the Great Detective, with his limping partner, who is trying to solve a series of murders that are linked to this so-called Game. There are, of course, the familiars. Snuff is Jack’s familiar. There is also a cat, a snake, and an owl, all of which also play an important part in the story.
If you don’t like talking dogs, cosmic horror, dark comedy, or books that make you second-guess character’s motives until the very last page, then this book isn’t for you. If, however, you love books like Bradbury’s “Something Wicked This Way Comes” and Gaiman’s “The Sandman” graphic novel series, then this will be a natural win....more
In Kazu Kibuishi's seventh book in the Amulet series, "Firelight": the team arrive at Algos Island, which appears to once have been occupied but has nIn Kazu Kibuishi's seventh book in the Amulet series, "Firelight": the team arrive at Algos Island, which appears to once have been occupied but has now become a ghost town, literally; Emily is haunted by memories of her dad, but the weird thing is that they are memories of events that never happened; the group attempts to find out what happened in Prince Trellis's childhood that turned his father evil; the discovery of an ancient spaceship at the bottom of the sea leads to a revelation about the source of the shadow creatures, and their secret purpose......more
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