“This thing’s armor is too strong for our weapons!”
“I think we know what we need to do.”
“FORM VOLTRON!!”
Last summer, June 2016, Netflix released a reboot of a much-beloved animated show from my childhood: Voltron: Legendary Defender. This reimagined reboot keeps the classic high points—there are five paladins who pilot lion mechas, and their teamwork and bond helps them form the titular Defender of the Universe, Voltron. Season one of the Netflix original series was ...
2017 might already be here but I am still catching up with a few 2016 reads that I – sadly – was not able to get to last year. I recently read two lovely YA Fantasy novels with LGBTQ characters and romance – and both had a fairy tale feel to them.
Princess Princess Ever After by Katie O’Neill is a lovely, short webcomic-turned-graphic-novel about two princesses. Princess Sadie and her pet dragon are up in her tower prison ...
Kayla Reinumon, the pit gladiator formerly known as Shadow Panthe, has done the impossible: she, with the help of a shadowy government agency, has won the Empress Game. A tournament between women vying for the hand of the Emperor Apparent and a voice on the Imperial Council of Seven, the Empress Game is a fight, often to the death. Because of her skills as a fighter—Kayla is a Wyrd ro’haar, sworn protector/bodyguard and psionic shield to her younger brother ...
It opens in the 70s with the tragic death of two sisters – Patty, who died first, and Jenna, who followed her beloved sister. Patty’s death came at the correct time and her spirit moved on without lingering. But Jenna? Jenna died too soon and decades later she is still half alive, now “living” in NY.
In this alternate world, every soul has a certain amount of time to live, and ghosts can take time from the living. For ...
I walked into this book wholly unprepared for what I was going to find. It starts like a YA romance: with a seventeen old boy called Aspen eating out with his best friend Theo and his girlfriend Brandy. Aspen has been secretly in love with Brandy for a while, and he is hopeful that Theo and Brandy will break up soon. He knows they will.
He knows this because he made it happen. That’s when Rocks Fall Everyone Dies ...
“Is this a joke? My name is Erin Tieng.”
“But… huh?”
“What, what does that even—”
“We got backed to the f***ing future.”
The year is 2016; the day, November first; the place, a small Ohio suburb.
Following Halloween, four papergirls encounter a time warp on their morning delivery runs—travelers from the future carrying all manner of weird devices and weapons, rogue dinosaur-like creatures, and incomprehensible humanoid warriors to fight the monsters. Erin, Mac, Tiffany, and ...
Who’s excited that 2016 is coming to an end soon? I know I am, and I already started wish-listing all the awesome-looking 2017 releases and preparing my challenges and goals for 2017. One of them is to continue my Time Travel Project (in which I read as many books featuring time travel as I can, old and new) and the other is to keep reading and highlighting as many books by women, LGBTQIA and POC as possible.
Here are ...
I love Star Wars.
Like many science fiction fans, I grew up enamored of Jedi and The Force. As a kid, I religiously watched the original trilogy with my family (we are a family of re-watchers). As a teen, I bought into the prequel trilogy: I braved the lines for each film premier showing, collected the video games, the Pepsi Phantom Menace character bottles (my mom was not pleased), I cosplayed Padme Amidala. I also recognize the many, many problems ...