Ambitious, weird, metafictional horror-fantasy set in a magical city where all but three faeries have fled post-war. It’s now occupied by tightropers who spit out ropes and live in the air, and gnomes who live belowground. Faeries are immortal and every part of their body has its own sentience; they shed glitter constantly and each speck of glitter ( Read more... )

I report with sorrow that I have now finished all of Liu's Dirk & Steel series, and can't read any more till her new one coms out. Apparently that one's about a dragon prince! Too bad, I was hoping for one about Eddie, that little angst-muffin.

These two books, the first a stand-alone and the second a novella in the book Dark Dreamers edited by ( Read more... )

A non-fantasy YA re-telling of "Beauty and the Beast" in modern times which attempts to stick as closely as possible to the original fairytale (with one very significant exception) while making it seem plausible in context. Intriguing idea, so-so execution ( Read more... )

An entertaining, though perhaps not actually good, Korean film about a cooking competition.

In the prologue, two cooks compose exquisite blowfish sashimi platters for a panel of judges. "They're poisoned!" chorused cofax7 and laurashapiro.

rilina, oyceter, and I, more used to the conventions of Asian media, said, "Eh? Why would they ( Read more... )

Yesterday I inflicted the world's worst anime on Yoon. I have to review it for Green Man Review. This will be my first ever review in which I will be forced to confess that I was unable to finish it. Truly appalling, and also none of the characters have noses. Yoon has proof in screencaps.BAD. BAD. BAAAAAAAAAAAAD. And yet it won awards in France! ( Read more... )

Welcome back to insane cracktastic Gothic land ( Read more... )