Category: Book Reviews
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Revival: You’re Among Friends by Seeley and Norton – A Book Review
Don’t call this a zombie book, because it’s not. In Revival, a relatively small number of recently deceased people in a small Wisconsin town inexplicably return to life. They can now recover from virtually any injury, and range from remaining exactly the same as when they lived in the conventional sense to, well, odd. Right…
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Lazarus: Family by Greg Rucka – A Book Review
I picked up Lazarus out of curiosity because Amazon kept suggesting I read it. I’m familiar with Greg Rucka’s work, so I thought it would be worth my time. The first volume of Lazarus, entitled Family, did not disappoint, though I must admit that I probably won’t follow the series. The world is now owned…
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Green Arrow Volume 5: The Outsiders War by Lemire and Sorrentino
I got into Green Arrow when Kevin Smith brought him back from the dead. Don’t get me wrong, any kid growing up in the early 80’s loved Green Arrow, but mostly as a member of the Justice League of America. No, I started seriously following the character when Smith returned Oliver Queen to the land…
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The Humans – A Book Review
A friend recommended I give The Humans a read, so I thought I’d give it a try. Written by Matt Haig, The Humans is about a mathematician who is killed and replicated by an alien. The alien must eradicate anyone the mathematician shared vital information with concerning a breakthrough concerning prime numbers. The alien’s race…
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The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell – A Book Review
Like you, I felt excited to read The Bone Clocks because David Mitchell also wrote Cloud Atlas. Now, I’ll be honest, I consider Cloud Atlas one of the more difficult books I’ve ever read, and, as a former English major, that’s saying something. In fact, I really didn’t decide that I liked Cloud Atlas until…
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Black Orchid by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean – A Book Review
Originally published in the early Nineties, Black Orchid is an early work of Neil Gaiman. It debuted long before his rise to fame as a novelist, a children’s author, and a luminary within the comic book industry. True to form, I just now read it in the year 2014. Decades later, Black Orchid still impressed…
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The Truth Is a Cave In the Black Mountains by Neil Gaiman and Eddie Campbell – A Book Review
Written by the renowned Neil Gaiman, this small picture book is unlike anything I’ve ever read. Perhaps picture book is too simple a phrase, for that conjures up something meant for a child, which this book clearly is not. At seventy-three pages, I read this tale in less than an hour. Every page is comprised…
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Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn – A Book Review
I promise to reveal nothing secretive about this book during my review, for to give away even a single detail will likely ruin the experience as a whole to the new reader. I will simply say this: the first half of the book is utter genius. I can’t recall of late a time I found…
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Forever Evil by Geoff Johns and David Finch – A Book Review
This book is the culmination of years’ worth of storytelling. Truly, it is the result of multiple plots nurtured since The New 52’s dawn. Did it satisfy? Yes. Without spoiling too much, the events of Trinity War led to Forever Evil, which means that the Justice Leagues are incapacitated. Save Batman and Catwoman, they are…
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