Archives: January2010
Review of Graceling

Gracelingby Kristin Cashore480pp (Paperback)My Rating: 8/10Amazon Rating: 4.5/5LibraryThing Rating: 4.29/5Goodreads Rating: 4.17/5 The YA fantasy Graceling is Kristin Cashore’s debut novel. Her second novel Fire, a loosely connected prequel set 35 years prior to Graceling, came out last year. Cashore does recommend reading Graceling first to avoid spoiling part of it, and even though I read these two books in reverse order, I can understand why since it would have taken me a lot longer to guess what was coming […]

Review of The Better Part of Darkness

The Better Part of Darknessby Kelly Gay416pp (Paperback)My Rating: 5/10Amazon Rating: 4.5/5LibraryThing Rating: 4.3/5Goodreads Rating: 4.46/5 The Better Part of Darkness is a debut novel written by Kelly Gay. The sequel to this urban fantasy, The Darkest Edge of Dawn, is supposed to be released in August 2010. Charlie Madigan works for Atlanta’s Integration Task Force, which monitors immigrants whether they are from this dimension or one of the two other dimensions discovered thirteen years before. Together with her partner […]

Comic Book Appreciation Month

Today is the beginning of comic book appreciation month over at Temple Library Reviews. It sounds like it will be a fun time with reviews of comics (including Fables) and interviews with people in the industry. For more information on what to look forward to during the entire month of January, read the official post.