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Showing posts with label violence. Show all posts
Showing posts with label violence. Show all posts
Saturday, December 1, 2018

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

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Rating: WARTY! Again, what's with this nonsense with putting music on audiobooks? Did Anthony Burgess write music that he then sol...
Friday, June 1, 2018

Welcome Back by Christopher Sebela, Jonathan Brandon Sawyer, Claire Row

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Rating: WORTHY! This piqued my curiosity because it as about a character who kept reliving her life through the ages, and in assorted g...
Monday, July 24, 2017

Grand Passion by James Robinson, Tom Feister

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Rating: WORTHY! This is from an advance review copy for which I thank the publisher. Written by James Robinson, this was an unusual and...
Thursday, July 13, 2017

The Adventures of Juice Box and Shame by Liv Hadden

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Rating: WORTHY! Errata: “At least it seemed I’d peaked Cassie’s interest.” should be piqued, not peaked! “I was just wearing black s...
Monday, June 6, 2016

The Body Reader by Anne Frasier

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Rating: WORTHY! This was an novel with a really interesting set-up, which was well-written, and which actually made good on the promise...

Iron Goddess by Dharma Kelleher

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Rating: WARTY! This completes my trilogy of ladies of Lesbos literature (how about that for alliteration?!), all advance review copies....
Saturday, June 4, 2016

Truth Lies Buried by Lesley Welsh

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Rating: WORTHY! This was an advance review copy and I was very grateful to the author and publisher for the chance to review it. I love...
Saturday, January 16, 2016

Starve Vol 1 by Brian Wood, Danijel Žeželj, Dave Stewart

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Rating: WORTHY! This was one of those advance review copies Net Galley offers as a 'read now', evidently because it isn't g...

Renée by Ludovic Debeurme

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Rating: WARTY! This was one of those advance review copies Net Galley offers as a 'read now', evidently because it isn't ge...
Thursday, December 24, 2015

Dead Man's Party by Jeff Marsick

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Rating: WORTHY! With remarkable art work from Barnett Scott, and a great story from Jeff Marsick, this graphic novel, volume one of a s...

Sons of the Devil Vol 2 by Brian Brucellato

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Rating: WARTY! This story borrows heavily from the TV show Hannibal , exhibiting all of the gore, and none of the finesse. The bad psy...

Sons of the Devil Vol 1 by Brian Brucellato

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Rating: WARTY! This was a graphic novel about a psychopath who was a baby when his parents were killed, and now he has issues galore, t...
Sunday, March 22, 2015

The Girl Who Played With Fire Adapted by Denise Mina

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Title: The Girl Who Played With Fire Author: Denise Mina Publisher: DC Comics (Warner Bros) Rating: WORTHY! Art by Andrea Mut...
Saturday, March 21, 2015

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo Part 2 Adapted by Denise Mina

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Title: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo Part 2 Author: Denise Mina Publisher: DC Comics (Warner Bros) Rating: WORTHY! Art by A...

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo Part 1 Adapted by Denise Mina

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Title: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo Part 1 Author: Denise Mina Publisher: DC Comics (Warner Bros) Rating: WORTHY! Art by A...
Wednesday, November 12, 2014

The Sham by Ellen Allen

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Title: The Sham Author: Ellen Allen Publisher: BookBaby Rating: WORTHY! Errata: p122 "...Ma...
Thursday, January 17, 2013

You Against Me by Jenny Downham

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Title: You Against Me Author: Jenny Downham Publisher: David Fickling Rating: WORTHY! Despite being proffered as young-adult...