There has been a recent trend of rebooting ’80s and ’90s cartoons. A standout reboot, at least for me, is the 2017 reboot of DuckTales.
DuckTales was high on my list of after-school viewing, but even higher for my brother. He’s a big fan of Scrooge McDuck. In the run-up to the reboot there was a graphic novel origin story for Scrooge, The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck, that I knew would be a great gift for him.
As I hope you remember, I fell in love with Amanda Lovelace’s poetry books a couple months ago. I started with The Princess Saves Herself in This One, and immediately needed more. Luckily for me, Lovelace released To Make Monsters Out of Girls last month. I knew I needed to pick up a copy once I was off of my buying ban.
When Scales and Scoundrels: Into the Dragon’s Maw came across my desk in a box of YA books, I decided to give it a read. The art looked good and a fantasy treasure hunt adventure fits nicely into my pleasure reading pile.
The main character is a young woman named Luvander. She may be a dragon in disguise, or a half dragon, or maybe possessed by a dragon. It’s left a little vague. A flashback with a young Luvander and a dragon, and some unusual talents are most of the information we get. Luvander does tell one of her companions that she’ll explain later, perhaps in the next volume.
I bought this book because I read that it had a bit of a Heathers vibe, and that’s totally my jam. But think of it this way; if one of the people Veronica & JD killed had a younger sibling, who wanted to dig to find the truth behind what happened, this would be that story.
Warning; this book contains things that may be triggering to some folks. If that is you, please don’t continue on.
I love. Love love. Love love love. Interactive entertainment. I love escape rooms, I love ARGs, I love crazy theatre experiments. It’s the closest you can get to safely living all your weird daydreams, and the more I see, the more I want.
That’s how I fell into following YouTuber Nick Nocturne. His Night Mind channel pieces apart everything from Wham City’s experimental Adult Swim vids to indie-created horror series — but his focus is absolutely on the latter.
I have some pretty strong feelings about this book, and I hate that they aren’t all positive. It’s a bit of a mixed bag, so let’s dive right in.
NOTE: This post has big, big spoilers for every episode of Steven Universe all the way up to the most recent episode, “Legs from Here to Homeworld.” If you haven’t caught up to your space rock soap opera, I highly encourage you to do so before proceeding with this post.
Hey geeks, Emily here with another fantastic recent read! I was recommended The Night Circus by a friend who also recommended Caraval; she told me that if I enjoyed Caraval (I did) then I would almost definitely love The Night Circus, and then she lent me both of her books. I absolutely adored The Night Circus, but it got off to a bit of a slow start. Let’s get into it!