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I was turned on to Ellis's work by my blogging buddy, Beth. We did a buddy read of Transmetropolitan last year. Here's a link to her great review here. When I saw this comic up on my Hoopla library app I downloaded it right away. Here's my take on it: Ten years have passed since a collection... Continue Reading →
In a book I can best describe as an urban fantasy-humor-reality game show, a man named Jim is taken away from his root beer-to-induce-suicide night... to play a game of few rules but many risks. Tested and trained, he's mostly informed by other fringe players of the game, because his mentor Oz is not really... Continue Reading →
Dr. Theo Cray is back... and this one is just as good as the first three books. The reader can see how Theo's past cases are affecting him: the survivor's guilt, the distance he's created from his girlfriend, Jillian, and most importantly, the possibility that he has contracted the Hyde virus. Yet, when a woman... Continue Reading →
I try to be balanced in my reviews and hold off on ranting negatively about books, but I do struggle with how to introduce criticism in my writing. I've adopted "at times" as a phrase to introduce criticism in my writing. Does it lighten the affect of the 3* or 2* review? I have used it... Continue Reading →
A high-octane scifi run-and-gun filled with alien parasites, cloaked ships, and all means of smoking guns. Set in the 2082, Captain Calvin Rae is the best soldier in the totalitarian American Union, a nationalist regime that has taken over the bulk of the US and Mexico. Released from his emotions by the chip embedded into... Continue Reading →
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