An Overwhelmed Creative

I just can't get enough of I Hate Fairyland. It's genius. The dark comic book by Skottie Young keeps me on my toes wanting to see what's going to happen next, and it never disappoints. In the third volume, our heroine (or villain, I should say) Gert, wants to be a Good Girl. The first issue in the collection is when she finds out she wants to be good after going to a convention and meeting one of her "fans". Then we get a peek into Larry, her sarcastic fly helper, and how he got to be by her side. After that, she goes on a quest to be good (and fails), until she finally gets what she wants by completing a task set by a weird wizard with a... I'd rather not say, but it's hilarious. And just as you think she's finally going home, then... What can I say, it's a must-read. I highly recommend this comic book. I'm on my way to Amazon.com to get vol. 4 myself. Cheers! Disclaimer: As an Amazon Associate this post earns from qualifying...

I was a little confused with this book at first. This is one of my daughter's recommendations. Apparently, it's one of her favorite series of all time. I honestly wasn't convinced until the end. Now, I'm hooked, but it took me a while to get there. The story is a bit like that old Michael Douglas movie The Game . Remember that one? Well, in Stephanie Garber's book, Caraval is a game very much like the one Michael Douglas "plays" in the movie. You get confused between what's real and what isn't. The story follows two sisters who are abused by their father. Their mother runs away when they're younger and their father becomes cruel (hitting then, killing their friends to show them they misbehaved ) . They live on an island where they can't escape (if they try they get caught and they get punished by their father). Their only fantasy of an escape it to one day attend a game, Caraval , because once upon a time their grandmothe...

I found A Discovery of Witches on Sundance after it was heavily advertised on Twitter and Facebook. (So, yes, ads work, LOL) I got a month's subscription of Sundance and began to watch it. Initially, I enjoyed that the characters were just regular people with one tiny difference - one was a witch, the other a vampire. I learned there are vampires, witches, and demons in this series and that none of them were crazy lunatics like in other books I've read. On the contrary, they were all rational beings who were basically human with extraordinary abilities. I didn't finish season 1. Instead, I got the audiobook. Being supernatural creatures in the human world, I consider this Urban Fantasy. So, I decided to give the book a try to compare it to my own series (which is part of my experiment with audiobooks). I must say I was a little disappointed. The book was too long. Longer than it needed to be. There was some action, but it took forever to come an...

I was drawn to this graphic novel at the library after reading the names Mark Millar and Greg Capullo. Although the art was great and the stories kind of made sense, there was something that didn't connect with me. Things happen, for what I think, with no real explanation. Also, it all happens so fast and in such a convenient way that it left a bad taste in my mouth. Granted, the idea of life after death was intriguing, but it didn't leave me satisfied and made me feel like life is, well, pointless. You end your life and start another and it ends and you start another and it ends and you start another. That or... it's purgatory. Except our heroes were supposed to be really good people in real  life, so what's up with that. Is it just an existence we all need to live through to keep going? I don't know. Like I say, it didn't fill me. Something was missing. It didn't convince me. I rarely tell you guys not to go ahead and read something, but this is o...

I got this book when I saw it at a Half Price Books because I enjoyed reading In the Dark, Dark Wood , also by Ruth Ware. Just like In the Dark, Dark Wood , The Woman in Cabin 10 is about an unreliable narrator who thinks she has witnessed a crime and gets in trouble for it. The premise of the book takes place in a small luxury cruise ship (with only ten cabins), where our main character is a reporter who is subbing for her boss. She is out of her league to start with, but worse than that, she is attacked by a burglar in her own home a few days prior to embarkation day, so she is shaken and hasn't had much sleep, which makes her jumpy and confused to boot. But, the fact remains, she's seen a woman in cabin 10 that apparently no one else has seen. Could she be the body she thought she heard splashing overboard? The story takes you through her confusion, making you wonder if what she thinks happened, actually happened, and all the while she tries to ask for help in a...