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The Dark Maestro
From the author of The Violin Conspiracy and Symphony of Secrets comes a mesmerizing page-turner about a young Black musical virtuoso at the peak of his career who’s forced into hiding when his family runs afoul of a ruthless international cartel—and uses his music to fight back. –StoryGraph MY REVIEW Guys. This book was…
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Tales from the Cafe
In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café that has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time . . . –Storygraph MY REVIEW I enjoiyed this…
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Mini Comic Reviews!
**Now this title is misleading in the fact that it also includes graphic novels and manga too! But here we go!!** When we meet Eagle Valiant Brosi, he is a long-haired commune kid, bullied by other kids,teachers, and his neighbors. –StoryGraph This is dark and dark humor wrapped up in…
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The Women
Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these words, it is a revelation. –StoryGraph MY REVIEW Book club this year has some heavy hitting subject matter, lol. I probably would not have had this on my TBR without book club so I’m really glad that…
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Mini Comic Reviews!
The mysterious Red Hood returns to Gotham with a vengeance! Former Robin Jason Todd parted ways with the Batman over their vastly different approaches to crimefighting. –Storygraph MY REVIEW Red Hood is one of my top three favorite characters in comics, so it’s really no surprise that I’m just basically…
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Before the Coffee Gets Cold
Down a small alleyway in the heart of Tokyo, there’s an underground café that’s been serving carefully brewed coffee for over a hundred years. Local legend says that this shop offers its customers something else besides coffee—the chance to travel back in time. –StoryGraph MY REVIEW We read this for…
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MetaMaus: A Look Inside a Modern Classic, Maus
In the pages of MetaMaus, Art Spiegelman re-enters the Pulitzer prize-winning Maus, the modern classic that has altered how we see literature, comics, and the Holocaust ever since it was first published twenty-five years ago. (39 years ago) –StoryGraph MY REVIEW MetaMaus has been a rather impactful read to me. I was…
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The Boy From the Sea
1973. In a close-knit community on Ireland’s west coast, a baby is found abandoned on the beach. –StoryGraph MY REVIEW I requested this one form the Publisher and I’m so glad they were able to send me a copy because I ended up *loving* this book. A sort of smaller…
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Cat-Eyed Boy: The Perfect Edition Vol. 1
Hated by humans and demons alike, Cat-Eyed Boy dwells in the shadows of the human world. Wherever he goes, disturbing tales of both men and monsters begin to unfurl. –StoryGraph MY REVIEW Latest topic of comic book club, and this was a delightfully chaotic/wild ride from tart to finish. The…
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(S)Kin
Fifteen-year-old Marisol is the daughter of a soucouyant. Every new moon, she sheds her skin like the many women before her, shifting into a fireball witch who must fly into the night and slowly sip from the lives of others to sustain her own. But Brooklyn is no place for…
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