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Nick and Charlie are in love. Still.

Heartstopper volume 5: A Graphic Novel by Alice Oseman

April 9, 2024 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Heartstopper volume 5: A Graphic Novel by Alice Oseman is more of the same with the characters Nick, Charlie, their family and their friends. While we focus on Nick and Charlie (as the other volumes have done) Oseman has added a few areas that are “outside” of the boy’s knowledge (such as there is a flashback with Charlie’s mom and one with a teacher), and there are a few areas that are just “Nick focused” or just “Charlie focused” as usual. There are some sexual […]

Shake your Team Pom!

The Adventures of Team Pom V01: Squid Happen by Isabel Roxas

The Adventures of Team Pom V02: The Last Dodo by Isabel Roxas

April 5, 2024 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

I have been trying to read The Adventures of Team Pom V01: Squid Happen and The Adventures of Team Pom V02: The Last Dodo for I do not know how long! I found an online reader copy ages ago, and when I recently uncovered it, unlike the others that are older and have been deactivated, these two never went away. And I am glad it did not, as Isabel Roxas has one funny story series on their hands. Publisher description says for book one: it […]

February-March 2024 Leftovers

The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors by Dan Jones

A Lowcountry Bride by Preslaysa Williams

Bone White by Ronald Malfi

Alexander the Great by Phillip Freeman

Nero: Matricide, Murder and Music in Imperial Rome by Anthony Everitt and Roddy Ashworth

Beyond a Boundary by C.L.R. James

A Stab in the Dark by Lawrence Block

The Killing Kind by John Connolly

Shōgun by James Clavell

Nobody's Angel by Jack Clark

A Murder in Hollywood: The Untold Story of Tinseltown's Most Shocking Crime by Casey Sherman

Village in the Dark by Iris Yamashita

Nestlings by Nat Cassidy

Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic by Tom Holland

The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age by Michael Woolraich

April 3, 2024 by Jake Leave a Comment

Rain, rain, go away. I thought my reading count looked too low and then I realized I didn’t do leftovers for February, so here’s Feb-March combined. The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and Rise of the Tudors ***** Jones is such a talented historian. Gets all the important stuff of the Wars of the Roses in great detail and lets the story entertain. His Templars book will soon be on my radar. A Lowcountry Bride**** Had to read this for a library […]

This school has spirit

Spirited V02 Go, Ghoul, Go! by Liv Livingston

April 2, 2024 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

The one thing I have with sequels is that if I read them too far apart, I forget parts of book one/the book(s) before. And that happened with Spirited V02 Go, Ghoul, Go! by Liv Livingston and Glass House Graphics. I mean, I remembered that Liv is the only living person (if you don’t count the werewolves and creatures of the swamp and such, I don’t count vampires) in a school of mostly ghosts. I remembered that she has two good friends, a “mean-girl” in […]

The Witch is a you know… so some heroes gotta stop her

The Witch's Throne volume one by Cedric Caballes

April 2, 2024 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

I like graphic novels, enjoy some fantasy and if a story has comedy and adventure, that is not a turn off. And The Witch’s Throne volume one by Cedric Caballes is all the above. Set up as if you are playing a Dungeons & Dragon like online game, there are multiple stories going along simultaneously with about a dozen main characters. However, it is not always clear when you are moving onto them, and with the several characters and several story-lines all at once, things […]

Step up to the Plate

Out of Left Field by Jonah Newman

March 26, 2024 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

I saw the online reader’s copy of Out of Left Field, several months ago and I saved the link for a rainy day. And recently I saw that it was due soon (the end of March 2024 to be precise) and figured I better give it a shot or I would probably lose the chance. What started as a memoir for Jonah Newman, turned into a fiction rendition of his life. Things are clever, humorous, cozy, familiar, fresh, and relatable. Things move quickly enough in […]

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