Origin by Dan Brown – book review
Origin, by Dan Brown, started off strong, but quickly became a lecture on the eventual replacement of religion by science. If you were…
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Three Celtic Tales by Moyra Caldecott – anthology review
Three Celtic Tales retold by Moyra Caldecott fancifully retells a trio of classical folk stories with a unique approach. Unlike most retellings of…
Allegiant by Veronica Roth – book review
Book Three in Veronica Roth’s Divergent series begins with Tris in jail for defying the authorities by releasing the video that explained what…
Insurgent by Veronica Roth – book review
The next volume of Veronica Roth’s Divergent series, Insurgent, begins right where Divergent ends. Tris and Four have just thwarted the plans of…
Daredevil Season One – television series review
Marvel Comics’ Daredevil Season One is original programming on Netflix. It’s a very different beast than Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. It’s darker, more…
Xenoblade Chronicles for Wii and 3DS – game review
Xenoblade Chronicles was a Japanese role playing game released in Japan in 2010. It seemed fated to never arrive on North American shores.…
Next – film review
Say what you will about Nicholas Cage, the man is busy. He’s had two movies out this year, and seven more coming up.…
Child of Light – game review
There once was a Duke whose wife died, leaving him to raise their red-headed daughter, Aurora. Soon after he married a second time,…
Insurgent – film review
The movie Insurgent was a slightly flawed, but solid, sequel to Divergent, with excellent special effects, strong performances by the lead actors, and…
Noragami – Stray God Volume 2 by Adachitoka – manga review
Noragami – Stray God Volume 2 by Adachitoka continues the adventures of Yato, the Japanese god without a shrine. He is a character…
Blood Alone 1-3 by Masayuki Takano – manga review
I just finished reading the Blood Alone omnibus for volumes 1-3 by Masayuki Takano, and I’m not entirely sure what to make of…
Matilda by Roald Dahl – children’s book review
Matilda, by Roald Dahl, is a modern fairytale about an extremely bright girl. Our tiny main character is beset by evil, finds a…
Maleficent – film review
Despite a torrent of steady buzz around the movie, I only recently sat down to watch Maleficent, Disney’s creative reimagining of the original…
Divergent by Veronica Roth – book review
Divergent by Veronica Roth was a good read. I definitely enjoyed it. As I detailed in my review of the movie, society in…
Divergent – film review
Soon after Mad Max was released, the 80s were filled with innumerable knock-off dystopian movies, where somehow the infrastructures of society failed in…
The Crown and the Dragon: The Paladin Cycle – film review
The Crown and the Dragon: The Paladin Cycle is part of a new wave of media. It originally began as a Kickstarter project,…
Noragami volume 1 by Adachitoka – manga review
I caught a few episodes of the anime of Noragami on Crunchyroll and enjoyed it so much that I thought I’d read the…
Edge of Tomorrow – film review
If you read my previous review of All You Need Is Kill, you may be wondering what the movie Edge of Tomorrow, starring…
The Flash (1990) – television series review
Soon after I started watching the reboot of The Flash on the CW, I felt nostalgic for the old version from the early…
Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope Mirrlees – book review
< style="float: left; padding-right: 10px; text-align: top;" />Have you ever heard of Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope Mirrlees? You can be excused if you haven’t.…
Seconds by Brian Lee O’Malley – graphic novel review
Brian O’Malley creates a modern fairytale with a bit of old world blended into the new in his latest graphic novel since his…