7.28.2011
Will Supervillains Be On the Final?
author: Naomi Novik, illustrator: Yishan Li
Series: Liberty Vocational vol. 1
Overall Grade: A+
So I was browsing the manga section when Naomi Novik's name leapt out and grabbed me. She's the author of my beloved 'Temeraire' series. But this was much different from dragons and historical fiction, this is a graphic novel about a superhero college!
Leah Taymore is a sixteen-year-old, gifted with a powerful superpower, who is starting college early. This first volume mostly revolves about Leah's embarassing experiences and her developing relationships with several of her classmates, her empathic roommate Yuzana, her troubled reluctant-hero crush Paul Lyman, and Jeremy Blake.
Labels: genre: fiction, genre: graphic novel, genre: superhero/villian, genre: YA, media: book, series: Liberty Vocational
7.22.2011
The Osiris Ritual
by George Mann, 319 pgs, hardcover
Series: A Newbury & Hobbes Investigation book 2
Overall Grade: B+
Again we adventure with Sir Maurice Newbury, agent of Queen Victoria, and Miss Veronica Hobbes. This time Newbury is intrigued by the murders surrounding a group of gentlemen explorers just returned from Egypt. Might it somehow be related to the rouge agent he's been assigned by the Queen to track and bring in? Meanwhile Miss Hobbes is busy investigating the mysterious disappearances of young women that coincide with iterinary of a travelling magician.
As you might expect after 'The Affinity Bridge', all these mysteries are going to end up tied together by the end...
Labels: genre: crime-fighting, genre: fiction, genre: historical, genre: mystery, genre: steampunk, media: book, series: Newbury and Hobbes
7.06.2011
The Queen of the Damned
by Anne Rice, 448 pgs, paperback
Series: The Vampire Chronicles book 3
Overall Grade: B+
Labels: genre: fantasy, genre: fiction, media: book, series: Vampire Chronicles
The Zombies of Lake Woebegotten
by Harrison Geillor, 293 pgs, paperback
Overall Grade: A
Labels: genre: fantasy, genre: fiction, media: book
