Miss Nanoka was orphaned when a sinkhole swallowed up her parents and their car in modern Japan. Now-cursed Nanoka is sometimes sent to the same area fifty years earlier. In Mao Vol 2, Nanoka and the exorcist Mao are still looking for the cat demon, Byoki, in that same eraContinue Reading
My Review In Punkin Strudel Mayhem, Jolie and Ava are best friends and business partners in a restaurant. The two are so close, they are both pregnant. Jolie with twins. Something happens on a chill October day and Jolie is launched into the Betwixt & In-between World. The nightmarish WorldContinue Reading
Cities disappear in this spinoff from the Sky series, A Hole in the World. The tale is a military thriller with a supernatural twist. I’m not sure if it is because I jumped into this series late, but A Hole in the World is a miss for me. About halfContinue Reading
In Mao Vol 1, Nanoka is a schoolgirl with a tragic history. While traveling with her parents, their car falls into a deep sinkhole. While seven-year-old Nanoka is saved, her parents are both dead. When she returns to the site years later trying to discover what happened, she passes intoContinue Reading
If you love your pets and you know what D&D stands for, you are in for an uproarious read with the fully illustrated Campaigns & Companions. “GM: The sorceress carefully places the glowing bottle on the workbench next to her. ‘Take heed, brave adventurers,’ she intones, ‘for contained within thisContinue Reading
Nine more episodes from this action-filled series await you in Undead Unluck Vol 3. Fuuko Izumi, nicknamed Unluck, has the power of unluck. Anyone who touches her skin-to-skin dies. She meets and teams up with the immortal Undead who she nicknames Andy. In the last volume Andy was possessed byContinue Reading
Mashle: Magic and Muscles Vol 2 continues the mashup of Harry Potter and One Punch Man. Mash has no magic abilities in a world that requires them. In Vol 1, he wins entry to his country’s preeminent magic school, Easton Magic Academy (think Hogwarts) based solely on his phenomenal strengthContinue Reading
In the sequel to the bestselling Hollow Kingdom, we find S.T. the crow raising a human infant named Dee. With the help of his bird buddies, the owls, and other various Feral Creatures. The humans have wrecked the Earth, what else is new. Now, a virus, possibly from the human’sContinue Reading
There is a dance. Then, a school practice exercise that turns into a real fight. RWBY: The Official Manga Vol 3 is the last volume in this prequel to the anime series. I’m sure I would have enjoyed this entire series more if I had watched the anime first. AsContinue Reading
Fuuko Izumi, nicknamed Unluck, has the power of unluck. Anyone who touches her skin-to-skin dies. In the last volume, she meets the immortal Undead and promptly names him Andy. They decide to team up. In Undead Unluck Vol 2, the duo finds a group of fellow negators. But to join,Continue Reading
In An Unkindness of Ravens, a girl named Waverly goes missing at Danforth High. A new girl, Wilma who looks uncannily like Waverly, is given her old locker. Because of her psychic abilities, Wilma can see an invisible message left in her locker filled with satanic imagery. Waverly was partContinue Reading
The demihuman dwarf, Sirgrus, has a problem. Someone has killed his human private eye partner in the new noir novel, Sirgrus Blackmane Demihuman Gumshoe and the Dark-Elf. The Dark-Elf is the nightclub where the murder happened. Luckily, they allow demihumans, so Sirgrus decides to investigate his partner’s death. The plotContinue Reading
I have no idea what I just read—but I love it—but I love it. [with apologies to The Weeknd] Within Without is unlike any other book I have ever read. It’s like Dark City, Tenet, and Alice in Wonderland had a baby. Then dropped that baby in a 6D blackContinue Reading
“I ain’t no zombie. I’m undead! Maybe you can snuff out my ridiculously long life!!”—from Undead Unluck Vol 1. Fuuko Izumi, nicknamed Unluck, has the power of unluck. Anyone who touches her skin-to-skin dies. When she meets the immortal Undead, she names him Andy. Andy hopes she can kill him.Continue Reading
The Wolf Mile is a fast-paced mashup of The Hunger Games and Game of Thrones! Tyler is looking for his missing sister, Morgan. Lana is looking to heal after an assault at a college party. Both believe their answer lies within the Pantheon. The Pantheon is a collection of sevenContinue Reading
Sorrowland is a completely unexpected, but ultimately disappointing, tale. Fifteen and pregnant, Vern runs away from everything she knows. The abusive husband and cult that she is fleeing hunts her down in the nearby woods, but she evades them. Meanwhile, Vern gives birth to twins while learning to live offContinue Reading