Buffyverse Comics: Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8, Vol. 2
The Story so Far: I am reading and reviewing the Buffyverse comic series’ that are canon with the television shows they are based on, including Buffy Season 8, Fray, Spike, Angel & Faith and Angel: After the Fall among others. I will post a final reading list when I’ve caught up to season 10. I’ve […]
A very superhero book review of “Sidekick”!
Sidekick takes everything you love about chick lit comedies like Bridget Jones’s Diary and throws them into the superhero realm. Author, Auralee Wallace delivers laughs, action and heart in her début novel. Bremy St. James used to be an heiress; now she sleeps beside a toilet in a tiny apartment. She left her old life […]
Book Review: The Museum of Intangible Things
Fair warning: This is not your typical YA road trip novel. I don’t want you to expect it to be something it’s not. I’m glad that I knew that The Museum of Intangible Things dealt A LOT with mental illness before I started, because it wasn’t what I expected from the cover and blurb, and […]
Successful Kickstarter Campaign Means the Return of Reading Rainbow
Did you guys know that one in four kids in the US will grow up illiterate? I didn’t, but LeVar Burton sure does. The well-known host of Reading Rainbow has not given up on these children and the show’s mission to promote reading and literacy in kids everywhere. In 2012, Reading Rainbow launched its iPad […]
7 Books to Read Before They Hit the Big Screen
This summer is going to see a WHOLE bunch of book to movie adaptations. If you’re a bibliophile like me, having one of your most loved books adapted for the big screen is one of your favorite things (or least favorite depending on the adaptation). I like to read the book, if I haven’t […]
Olde School – A new age of hard knocks
Fairy tales merge with the modern era in Selah Janel’s dark fantasy adventure Olde School. “Caught in a tug of war between past and future, that’s what I am.” Paddlelump “Padd” Stonemonger is a business man first and a troll second. He runs a successful troll bridge that leads to a beautiful clearing and a […]
Book Review: Awesome Jones
Imagine a fairy tale read by Stan Lee: romance and magic combined with high-flying, comic book action. The result is Awesome Jones. you have to start believing that you can be the man you want to be. Awesome is a regular guy living in an extraordinary world where superheroes patrol the city and wield incredible […]
Revisiting John Green’s Novel The Fault in Our Stars
With the upcoming release of The Fault in Our Stars movie starring Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort, I think we should have a little revisit of the 2012 novel it’s based on. You know, to refresh readers and prepare them for the ugly crying they’ll be doing in the theater. I mean, I teared up […]
‘Twilight’ Author Producing ‘Anna Dressed in Blood’ Movie
Anna Dressed in Blood is coming to the big screen thanks to none other than Stephenie Meyer, author of the Twilight Saga. Meyer’s production company Fickle Fish Films works to bring new author’s work to the big screen. The tagline for Kendare Blake’s 2011 ghost story is “just your average boy-meets-girl, girl-kills-people story.” Best. Tagline. […]
Book Review: The Truth About Alice
Jennifer Mathieu packs a punch. Her debut novel opens with rumors of Alice Franklin, the girl they say slept with two guys at a party. The girl who caused Brandon Fitzsimmons to die in a car accident. She used to be cool. She used to be well-liked, so what happened? Setting us straight are four […]
Watch the Gone Girl Official Trailer
The trailer for the film Gone Girl has been released and, like all other promotional materials for this upcoming movie from the poster to the website, it looks amazing. Author, Gillian Flynn has written the screenplay for the film based on her bestselling novel by the same name about a woman who goes missing on […]
Moretz to Star in The Fifth Wave, Dark Places and If I Stay
Chloë Grace Moretz has signed on to play Cassie in the movie adaptation of Rick Yancy’s young-adult, science-fiction novel “The 5th Wave” Later this year, Moretz will also star in “If I Stay” and “Dark Places: A Novel“. All three of these films are based on books. But these aren’t just books. These are really […]
Top Five Young Adult Fiction Clichés
Seven years, four books, and five awful movies ago Twilight was released and since then the young adult genre has exploded with new paranormal romance titles. Say what you will about Twilight, but that one book has since altered the entire genre, doing for YA novels what Halloween did for horror movies. Now the following […]
The Hollows series by Kim Harrison
Welcome to the city of Cincinnati. It is 40 years after the T4-Angel virus wiped out 25% of the human population, and the Inderlanders have come out of the woodwork. Vampires, Weres, and Witches are just the tip of the iceberg. Humans have moved to the city, grouping together in fear, leaving the suburbs, known […]