Mashle: Magic and Muscles Vol 1 is a witty Harry Potter parody crossed with One Punch Man. It’s hilarious! Mash is young and massively strong. But he has no magic powers in a world that requires them. When Mash disobeys his father to pick up a cream puff in town,Continue 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
In No. 5, Vol 1, the Peace Corps Commandos are an elite caste of superhumans on a future Earth. Their first mission is to shoot the mythical elk, Ashiro. Meanwhile, sharpshooter number 5 is romancing his superior’s wife. He runs off with her. The superior sends his staff to killContinue Reading
I love keto even though I am terrible at sticking to it. However, The Dirty, Lazy, Keto 5-Ingredient Cookbook might just make me a keto fanatic again. Being gluten-free for years, it would seem to be easy to forgo a few more foods (goodbye, rice) and go full keto. AfterContinue Reading
Van Helsing, Liesel Van Helsing. Daughter of that Van Helsing. It’s Liesel Van Helsing vs the League of Monsters. The monsters include her stepfather, her half-sister, a mummy, Frankenstein’s monster, Miss Hyde, werewolves and various vampires. On Liesel’s side are Igor, Dr. Jekyll (when she is not Miss Hyde), andContinue Reading
Secrets of the Force contains a multitude of material about the creation of the first six films in the Star Wars universe. There is lesser information about the films made without George Lucas. Quotes from movie insiders including George and some of the actors do release some secrets. At overContinue Reading
My Review The Inquisition is over, but witches still have one thing to fear—associating with Zo. Zo is a gift shop owner in Midnight Spells Murder, the second entry in the Happy Camper cozy mystery series. She invites a witch to a book signing to celebrate Halloween. But the witchContinue Reading
Get used to the idea of spending a few hours questioning why you decided to read about these boring petty people. For more than half the book, millennials Remy and Alicia obsess over Jen, a beautiful girl with an uber-rich and pretentious boyfriend named Horus. They visit Horus’ house inContinue Reading
My Review Hattie is from a long line of moonshiners starting back during prohibition. She decides to open a store to sell her family’s hooch in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Unfortunately, the owner of the bar across the street is found dead on her store’s doorstep. Hattie just had an argument withContinue Reading
Who’s ready for a ghost story? Not a violent demonic possession like the latest Conjuring movie. No, a quiet and refined little story of a spirit who just won’t leave her perfect house. In The Therapist, the ghost is determined to run the new owners straight out of HER house.Continue Reading
In The 22 Murders of Madison May, Madison is indeed murdered multiple times across multiple universes by the same man, Clay. Reporter Felicity is chasing down Clay in her home universe when she also hops with Clay to the next one. Can she save Madison from Clay’s clutches? And whoContinue Reading
Using ham radio, television laugh tracks, and pop culture as examples, Seek You attempts to explain how loneliness became so widespread in our society. “The laugh track of each show was a lesson in what I was supposed to feel and know, and a promise for something I could somedayContinue Reading
Middle grader Grey has a secret friend. Sure, Lavinia lives underground and is The Ghoul Next Door in a graveyard, but ghouls just want to have fun, right? What middle-grader wouldn’t want to join Grey on the adventure of a lifetime? He must join Lavinia to search the hidden undergroundContinue Reading
Dog Eat Dog is the 23rd entry in the Andy Carpenter dog-oriented legal thriller series. And it’s a humdinger! A man on the street is beating his pug. Andy, his wife Laurie and their son Ricky are across the street walking their two dogs, Tara and Sebastian. Laurie rushes acrossContinue Reading
Regardless of where you are reading this paragraph, Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead. It’s just a fact of life. Death is enviable. However, most people don’t think about it much—if at all. Gilda is different. She thinks about death obsessively. Well, whenever she is not worrying aboutContinue Reading
Even the Amish have secrets! Ride along with Sheriff Kate Burkholder as she chases a vicious murderer in a rural Ohio town in Fallen. Rachel was Amish. She was also recently alive. But after returning to her hometown, she was beaten to death in her motel room. “Painters Mill wasContinue Reading