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Monday, August 17, 2015
RavenStorm Witches by Misha McKenzie
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Rating: WARTY! This is a very short novella/novelette/short-story/collection of short stories (I don't know the word count, but it...
Young Terrorists Volume 1: Pierce The Veil by Matt Pizzolo
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Rating: WARTY! The story in this graphic novel (of which I read an advance review copy) was rather different from what the blurb had ma...
Junction True by Ray Fawkes
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Rating: WARTY! I didn't like this graphic novel, of which I read an advance review copy. The story made little sense, and we were ...
Sunday, August 16, 2015
The Courage of Sarah Noble by Alice Dalgliesh
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Rating: WARTY! If I had known that this was a Newbery honor book (1955) I never would have read it. I avoid honor and medal-winning bo...
Brave Faces by Mary Arden
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Rating: WORTHY! Errata: (Note that there were no page numbers and I do not trust the ebook "location" numbers to be valid ac...
Life on the Edge by Johnjoe McFadden and Jim Al-Khalili
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Rating: WORTHY! I received this beautiful hard cover print book from Blogging for Books in exchange for an honest review. It was such ...
Friday, August 14, 2015
Tabatha by Neil Gibson and Caspar Wijngaard
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Rating: WORTHY! I favorably reviewed Twisted Dark by this author back in April 2015. Even so, this comic was much better than that on...
Ragnarok Volume 1 by Walter Simonsen
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Rating: WARTY! This is yet another graphic novel advance review copy which fails to sport even a semblance of a cover, much less any in...
Alice Cooper Welcome to my Nightmare Volume 1 by Joe Harris, Brandon Jerwa, Eman Casallos, Nacho Tenorio
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Rating: WARTY! On page 23 (in Adobe Digital Editions), one of the characters asks, "What's going on?" and at that point, ...
Thursday, August 13, 2015
The Fly: Outbreak by Brandon Seifert and Menton3
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Rating: WORTHY! The odd thing about this graphic novel is that it came without any front or end material whatsoever - the first screen ...
Love Volume Two Fox by Frédéric Brrémaud and Federico Bertolucci
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Rating: WORTHY! This is another beautifully illustrated look at wild life. No text, just images. The first one I read was The Tiger ....
Eville USA by Julia Dweck
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Rating: WORTHY! Frightfully well-illustrated with absolutely monstrous colors by Fian Arroyo, this important book is a much-needed and ...
Tovi the Penguin Goes to London by Janina Rossiter
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Rating: WORTHY! Another in a series, the first of which (at least the first one I read!) I reviewed here . I wasn't that impressed...
Boy and the Travelling Cheese by Junia Wonders
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Rating: WORTHY! Another odd and wonderful tale from the same story-teller who created Boy and the very Lonely Pony , and The Roll-Away ...
Monday, August 10, 2015
Alex + Ada Volume Three by Sarah Vaughn
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Rating: WARTY! I wrote positively of the first comic in this series by Sarah Vaughn and Jonathan Luna, but then I didn't get a cha...
Saturday, August 8, 2015
The Courtesan by Alexandra Curry
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Rating: WARTY! I had a really hard time getting into this at all, and it wasn't helped by the fact that three of the first four wom...
Toxic charity by Robert D Lupton
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Rating: WARTY! This book purports to show how charity backfires by inducing people to employ it as a permanent crutch instead of it act...
Dorothy Must Die by Danielle Paige
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Rating: WARTY! This is the first in a bizarre series which goes to at least volume three or four followed by two or three novellas, but...
Thursday, August 6, 2015
You Know You Love Me by Cecily von Ziegesar
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Rating: WARTY! Which imbecile decided that it would be a really great idea to lard up audio books with random jarring, too loud music? ...
The Music of the Spheres by Elizabeth Redfern
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Rating: WARTY! Even Tim Curry's excellent voice could not save this novel. I couldn't stand to listen to the entire thing. I ...
Joplin's Ghost by Tenanarive Due
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Rating: WARTY! This was an audio book read uninspiringly by Lizan Mitchell. This novel is centered on Scott Joplin - not Janis Joplin,...
Any Way The Wind Blows by E Lynn Harris
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Rating: WARTY! This was an audio book from the library, and it was read amateurishly by Dominic Hoffman, Bahni Turpin, and Mirron Willi...
Wednesday, August 5, 2015
Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho
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Rating: WARTY! This was an advance review copy, and we reviewers are always warned to keep that in mind, but what I keep in mind is tha...
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