Reviews for fantasy books.
With this series we jump back in time to Hellboy’s early cases working with the B.P.R.D. These cases take place between 1952 and 1954 and are all little mini stories with Hellboy and the first group of agents he worked with. This was a great collection. I really enjoyed seeing a young and inexperienced Hellboy … More Review: Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1952-1954 by Mike Mignola
It’s been a year since Ginseng’s was entrusted to Greta and she is still mourning. While struggling to help Ginseng, Greta is also struggling to create something spectacular to impress a master blacksmith. This was another wonderful addition to this series and continues Greta and Minette’s story. I really adore these two. Since the previous … More Review: The Tea Dragon Tapestry by Kay O’Neill
In this one we go back in time to when Hesekiel and Erik were still adventuring. This takes place in Erik’s home village and focuses on his niece, Rinn. While foraging for ingredients for the village Rinn comes across a dragon, Aedhan, who has been sleeping for eighty years. Rinn was a sweet, kind, and … More Review: The Tea Dragon Festival by Kay O’Neill
This was an adorable graphic novel. This story focuses on Greta, a blacksmith apprentice, who is now also learning to care for tea dragons with Heskiel and Erik. While at the tea shop she meets Minette, who has amnesia. They quickly bond over the dragons and grow closer with each passing season. Greta was a … More Review: The Tea Dragon Society by Kay O’Neill
“Death is only the end if you assume the story is about you.” Nilanjana Sikdar is an outsider in the town of Night Vale. She works for Carlos and relies on facts and logic as her guiding principles. When Carlos gives her a special assignment to investigate a mysterious rumbling in the desert it leads … More Review: It Devours! by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor
Well this was an interesting and weird comic! The Screw-on Head, with his faithful manservant Mr. Groin and his dog, Mr. Dog, are sent by President Lincoln to fight Emperor Zombie. Yes, I know that is a strange sentence but that is what this story was, strange. The Screw-on Head was just a weirdly strange, … More Review: The Amazing Screw-On Head and Other Curious Objects by Mike Mignola
After watching the tv series for this book, I knew I had to read it. I am glad I waited until this version of the audiobook came out though because it was wonderful having the actual actors from the tv show do the narration. Michael Sheen and David Tennant were wonderful narrators and I got … More Review: Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
Trigger Warnings: sexual assault, physical and mental abuse, toxic relationships This book covers episodes 1-25 of the webtoons comic. This is a wonderful retelling of Hades and Persephone’s story. This is mostly told from Persephone’s POV and how she is struggling to finally have a life now that she is away from her controlling mother. … More Review: Lore Olympus: Volume One by Rachel Smythe
Seraph and her family are finally headed home after saving Tier and the Emperor. But things in Redern are not how they left them. Evil has been attacking and new issues arise from the damage done to Tier’s order. This was just as enjoyable as the first book. This family is so fascinating and wholesome. … More Review: Raven’s Strike by Patricia Briggs
Seraph is a Raven mage, and among the last of the Travelers that are trying to keep evil at bay. When her brother is killed she finds herself saved by ex-soldier Tier who takes her home. They build a life together but evil returns years later. It has been years since I read this book … More Review: Raven’s Shadow by Patricia Briggs
This audiobook contains adaptations from volumes 4-6 of The Sandman comics. This was another enjoyable adaptation of this series. I really enjoyed the comics and the first audiobook so I was very happy to finally get my hands on this volume. The voice actors they chose for each character were wonderful and they really brought … More Review: The Sandman: Act II by Neil Gaiman and Dirk Maggs
When twins Dani and Dorian miss the bus to magic school they never thought they would wind up being declared traitors to their own kind. After making friends with a local troublemaker, a princess, and a teacher who can see into the future, they think they might be able to clear their names. This was … More ARC Review: Hooky by Miriam Bonastre Tur
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