I HATE zombies. And body horror creeps me out. And child-in-danger stories are usually annoying and manipulative. So I can’t believe I am actually recommending a child-in-danger zombie novel that is chock-full of disturbing body horror… but this one is really good ( Read more... )

I'm getting an internal server error about every other time I try to upload a photo, so this is really laborious. As a result, I'm only pasting a few select shots rather than everything that looks cool.

The Eiffel Tower, the Louvre, misc street shots, zombie with machete in his head.

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The latest from Kaori Yuki, queen of crack, and full of all the beautiful men, id-tastic author’s notes, parrots of doom, deadly dolls, zombies, and utter WTF that one might expect if one is familiar with her work. I enjoyed the hell out of it, and if you like any of her other her manga, you probably will too. It reminds me most of Godchild, but so ( Read more... )

Her hair was starting to come down from the knot and she tugged on it, looking lonely and sad as a lighthouse. Sad as a nun.Mackie Doyle is a sad sack of an emo bass-playing teenage boy who’s slowly dying of allergies to blood, iron, and consecrated ground. He knows perfectly well that he’s a changeling, and so does his family. They just don’t talk ( Read more... )

An ambitious high fantasy, complete in one volume, which is one-third a cool story about a magical apocalypse narrated by a prince who gets cast into a city of zombies, one-third an irritating tale of political intrigue, narrated by the prince’s fiancée, in which virtually everyone involved is a total imbecile, and one-third a mostly dull account ( Read more... )

In Mary's world, there are simple truths.
The Sisterhood always knows best.
The Guardians will protect and serve.
The Unconsecrated will never relent.
And you must always mind the fence that surrounds the village....The enormously misleading cover copy for this YA novel makes it sound like a certain stinker of an M. Night Shyamalan film, in ( Read more... )

These are preliminary notes. I have only read the first three volumes, so please do not spoil me ( Read more... )

This is the sort of story where one can quite honestly write, "I forgot to mention that Heaven and Hell collided some volumes back ( Read more... )

I finished this series a while ago, but was unable to write it up because every time I attempted a thoughtful, coherent analysis, the content I was trying to analyze was so deliciously demented, so carefully foreshadowed yet totally insane, that my head exploded ( Read more... )