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#RRSciFiMonth Review Bites

Posted on November 23, 2015 17 Comments

Sci-Fi November is a month-long blog event hosted by Rinn Reads and Over The Effing Rainbow this year, created to celebrate everything amazing about science fiction! From TV shows to movies, books to comics, and everything else in between, it is intended to help science fiction lovers share their love and passion for this genre and […]

#RRSciFiMonth Review Bites

Posted on November 17, 2015 5 Comments

Sci-Fi November is a month-long blog event hosted by Rinn Reads and Over The Effing Rainbow this year, created to celebrate everything amazing about science fiction! From TV shows to movies, books to comics, and everything else in between, it is intended to help science fiction lovers share their love and passion for this genre and […]

Audiobook Review Bites

Posted on September 8, 2015 21 Comments

A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab Genre: Fantasy Series: Book 1 of A Darker Shade of Magic Publisher: Tantor (April 21, 2015) Author Information: Website | Twitter Narrator: Steven Crossley Mogsy’s Rating: 3.5 of 5 stars Kell is one of the last Antari, a rare magician able to travel across parallel worlds in a universe that has four different Londons: […]

Graphic Novel Review Bites

Posted on June 8, 2015 7 Comments

A Glance Backward by Tony Sandoval With thanks to NetGalley for the opportunity to read an advanced copy of this graphic novel in exchange for an honest review. My mother recently passed away and the most phenomenal experience for me has been watching my daughters deal with her death. They had a big cry when […]

Audiobook Review Bites: The Color of Magic & The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett

Posted on April 25, 2015 22 Comments

I’m probably one of the last people on the planet who hasn’t read anything by Terry Pratchett despite the fact that I have friends who are huge fans of his, especially one of my closest and dearest friends, Nick, who is more infamous around these parts as being a peddler of his mom’s filthy alien […]

Graphic Novel Review Bites: Zombies and Clockworks and Big Bangs

Posted on April 19, 2015 3 Comments

Rachel Rising, Volume 1: The Shadow of Death The beauty of a comic book that remembers its a comic book meant to tell a story through its images more than its words. The first few pages of this book are silent, following a mysterious woman who claws herself out of a ditch and makes her […]

Audiobook Review Bites

Posted on March 19, 2015 11 Comments

Ubik by Philip K. Dick Genre: Science Fiction Narrator: Anthony Heald Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins Whispersync Ready: Yes In the future world of 1992 (give him a break; this book was written in 1969), Joe Chip is working for an anti-telepath organization. What are anti-telepaths? Simple. They’re people who can neutralize a telepath’s […]

Sci-Fi Short Story Review Bites

Posted on February 26, 2015 6 Comments

Glitch by Hugh Howey “I remember holding Sarah for the first time, marveling at this ability we have to create life where before there was none.” In a world that craves the brutality that come with robot bouts (basically brutal cage fights between robots), Sam, Peter, and Greenie investigate why their prize fighter, Max, refuses to […]

Graphic Novel Review Bites

Posted on February 15, 2015 6 Comments

The Wicked and The Divine: The Faust Act Every 90 years, the Pantheon of gods returns, reincarnating in the bodies of young people. They will live, love, hate, and laugh, and then, in two years, they will die. During that time, there is only one rule: they must not harm humanity with their abilities. Lucifer, […]

Graphic Novel Review Bites

Posted on July 21, 2014 5 Comments

Battlefields, Volume 1: Night Witches by Garth Ennis I happened upon the obituary of Nadezhda Popova and learned of the existence of the Night Witches. Thereafter, I discovered that Garth Ennis had written a series of war stories called Battlefields, with the Night Witches appearing in the first volume. Sometimes, it’s hard to reconcile the […]