I’m totally in the middle of reading Blackout by Mira Grant, and it’s great, it really is, and I don’t want it to end and I need to know what happens, but lord, I AM INVESTED and it is stressing me the hell out. So for my plane flight yesterday, I browsed through iBooks for …
Monthly Archive: May 2012
Review: Vertigo by Kristina Dunker
Eva is a teenager in love with her boyfriend Julian, who invites her to come spend a long weekend at his parent’s vacation house in a small town. She’s thrilled and her parents hesitantly agree to let her go. Since Julian’s finals are earlier, he goes up a few days before, and she has to …
The Worst Mothers in YA Fiction
In honor of Mother’s Day, instead of extolling the virtues of the great fictional moms out there (of which there are many) I’d like to take time to discuss the worst parents I’ve encountered in young adult books thus far. Let’s face it, they can’t all be Rachel Morgan, mother of Cammie Morgan, ex-spy, and …
Review: Insurgent by Veronica Roth
Just a warning: because this is the sequel, there are spoilers for the first book, Divergent, in this review. If you haven’t read it yet, I highly recommend you do. How do I even start this? Yes, it was an awesome follow up to Divergent and I continued to love Four, Tris, and even Caleb …
Guest Post: Anything to Make a Buck – The Hydra Problem
Today’s guest geek poster is, once again, M. Ravenwood. She is an actual, real-life archaeologist. Also awesome. I’ve noticed a disturbing trend in movie memorabilia lately. With The Avengers juggernaut which dropped this week, the amount of Marvel movie-verse stuff has skyrocketed, including items related to previous films. Merchandise ranges from pretty damn cool to …
Madoka Magica – Actually Not Cute, Just Really Effed Up
I know what you must be thinking. “But Alex, these girls look so cute and adorable! This is obviously just a fun show about magical girls with some potentially tough stories but in the end everything is great! They even have a sidekick cat!” I’m sorry, dear internets, but you would be mistaken. Terribly. Mistaken. …
































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