Okay, let’s get this out of the way: If you’re looking to recreate the singular reading experience you had with Ready Player One, to recapture that same magical feeling of wonder and awesomeness, you’re going to be disappointed with this book. Just, straight up. Armada is not RPO. They have similarities, but there also a lot of differences, and those differences are going to cause a lot of people not to like this one very much. Them’s just the facts. RPO, as far as I’m concerned, […]
The first half of this book is a joke, the second half is pretty okay, actually.
This book is an unholy mess of contradictions and swirling tide pools of unnecessary words. So, there are one of two ways this review could go: 1) I think of every single criticism I can that bothered me while reading this book and I write them all down until the review balloons up to the size of a small baby elephant (which is a pretty big size for a review), also including the things I think it did right as well; or 2) I take the […]
A bit of a disappointing last book for Judy Blume.
Like most children born in the 1970s and 1980s (and I hope, the 1990s), Judy Blume books made frequent and prolonged appearances in my household. My personal favorites were always the Fudge books. I was (and still am) a lover of scatological and body humor, so Fudge eating his brother Peter’s turtle always appealed to me on a base level. And of course, Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret was there to ease me into puberty and ask all the awkward questions. I never got around to reading her […]
Great book ruined by atrocious art.
Cognitive dissonance is balls. So, look. I love Kelly Sue DeConnick’s writing. I love Carol Danvers. In general, I am a huge fan of everything that is going down in this book. BUT THE ART WAS SO DISTRACTING AND I HATED IT. The first two issues were okay. Dexter Soy continued his run from the first volume. And while I’m not a fan of his art, either, at least he manages to draw people that look like actual people. Starting at issue #9, Filipe Andrade […]
Time-traveling serial killer: SOLD.
I mean. Come on. Just, this author did not have to do any work at all in selling this book to a publisher. And the publisher had no trouble marketing it. Obviously. Time-traveling serial killer sells itself. All this book had to do was show up and it would have been popular, just because we all wanted to read the book about the time-traveling serial killer. Luckily, this book is far from phoned in. It maybe even goes a bit further in the other direction. […]
This book shouldn’t have worked, but it totally, totally does.
I actually Double Cannonballed this sonnuvabitch a little less than a month ago, that’s how behind I am in reviews. But I’m glad I did it with this book, which is one I picked up due to curiosity, and ended up really enjoying despite a near certainty that I wouldn’t. There were so many red flags here. It’s YA. It’s buzzy. The male and female protagonists were obviously meant to fall in love against insurmountable odds. The setup of the worldbuilding indicated a tired hodgepodge […]
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