Category: Review
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What if Peter Pan came back and stole away Wendy’s daughter?
Wendy Darling by A.C. Wise is a great fantasy novel digging deeper into Neverland, trying to get to the whys and hows and falling into the dark depth of a world of innocence lost. I have read and seen a huge amount of works based of Peter Pan. While I will admit not liking the…
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Prisoner of her mother as a golden goose, can she really escape?
Constellations of Scars by Melissa Eskue Ousley is a fairytale retelling sitting uncomfortably between fantasy and thriller. I really wanted to love that one for quite a few reasons. One, I want to support independent writers, because the industry is hard and people should be able to choose their path. In this digital age, writers…
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My top 7 cookbooks of 2020 and 2021
I love food. Always. I seek new flavours, new ways of understanding a dish, a meal, of looking at an ingredient, or reaching taste highs, of simplifying a process. I am addicted to bursts of flavour, sour and spicy, aromatic and exotic. I just love food. I love talking about it, seeing beautiful recipe pictures,…
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If the world came together, and in one breath everyone spoke, this is what you’d hear
“One Line” written and illustrated by Ray Fawkes is a truly unique human experimental comic. This is the type you want to think about and hold in your hand, and try to read differently, going back and forth between the pages, testing out how far the comic medium can be stretched. I hadn’t known what…
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How about a tale of love and jealousy in a fantasy land of the 1900s
The Beautiful Ones by Silvia Moreno-Garcia is a fantasy romance novel set in a world reminiscent of 1900s France. It is all about high feelings, jealousy, missed opportunities and bad choices, very reminiscent of classic novels written in the late 1800s. When I saw it was the latest book from Moreno-Garcia I wanted to try.…
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Looking for a cool comic about a girl with split personalities?
Elle(s), written by Kid Toussain and illustrated by Aveline Stokart is a beautiful YA comic book with a big mystery at its center. Is Elle, that fun new student, really a psychology case, or is she something more supernatural? We follow the journey of Elle as she arrives to a new school and makes friends,…
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In a post-slavery fantasy novel, when will people be free to live the lives they’re meant to?
The Conductors, by Nicole Glover is fantasy mystery set in post-slavery America. The setting is so unusual that I immediately wanted to see where it was going and everything about this novel was a very welcome breath of fresh air, from the magic system to the take on the side romance. Of course I was…
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What if the world could see what you saw, hear what you heard, smell what you smell and feel what you feel?
This is a high concept if I ever saw one. Omni-Visibilis written by Lewis Trondheim and illustrated by Matthieu Bonhomme is a graphic novel that asks that one question: what would happen if one day everyone saw from the eyes of an ordinary man as soon as they closed their eyelids. I always love the…
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What if magic was a curse that twisted your body into monstrous shapes?
Wynd Book One: Flight of the Prince by James Tynion IV is an odd fantasy comic mixing cute and dark. In fact, it gets very gloom despite its rounded colourful drawings. The stakes are very high in this teen book and people die a lot. So be warned, this might not be for the younger…
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Love this story of unlikely friendship, roadkill, transgender identity and magic
Snapdragon by Kat Leyh is a gem of an unusual fantasy comic, both dark and uplifting for the young and the less young. While it is middle grade level, it tackles lots of modern and ultimately very human questions and deserves a good read. Why did I pick up this book? I was immediately attracted…