Aug 29, 2016

Library of Souls - Ransom Riggs (2015) Quirk Books

In this third volume of Mrs. Peregrine’s Peculiar Children, Jacob and his companions go to Devil’s Acre, a Victorian slum where the final showdown with monsters trying t5o destroy all peculiar children must decide their fates.

Aug 24, 2016

Hollow City - Ransom Riggs (2015) Quirk Books 

Mrs. Peregrine is trapped in the body of a bird and monsters are after the children.  Jacob takes his friends from their time-looped home to London.  But it’s the London of World War II.  But teenage love gets in the way and in order to save the children, Jacob must confront his feelings.

Aug 19, 2016

Mrs. Peregrine's Peculiar Children - Ransom Riggs (2011) Quirk Books (8/19)

Teenage Jacob goes to an island off the coast of Wales with his birding father who is immersed in writing a new book.  Jacob, bored and wandering the island, finds the ruins of an abandoned house.  Only it’s not exactly abandoned, it’s trapped in a time loop from World War II.  And its occupants are peculiar indeed.

A wonderful and well thought out adventure.  You'll fall in love with the children.

Aug 14, 2016

Miracleman - Neil Gaiman, Illustrated by Mark Buckingham (2016) Marvel 

In a world where London was destroyed, Miracleman presides over the new world.  There is no war, no famine, no poverty.  The dead return as androids.  An age of miracles, but not everyone is happy.

Aug 9, 2016

Sandman Overture - Neil Gaiman (2015) Vertigo 

This origin story of the Sandman covers the creation of the galaxy to the capture of Morpheus.  It features The Corinthian, Lucien the librarian, and of course, the Endless, the Sandman’s siblings; Death, Desire, Despair, Delirium, Destruction and Destiny.

Aug 5, 2016

Proven Guilty - Jim Butcher (2007) Roc

War with the vampires has cost a lot of wizards.  Harry gets drafted by the White Council to be a warden.  Then Michael, a guardian angel, asks Harry to intercede with his daughter, who is rebelling and may be in trouble.  As usual, Butcher delivers a tense, action filled story with surprises and feeling.