Macey of Gallagher Girls fame and Hale of Heist Society fame meet up in this caper. They are both attending a high society event when suddenly masked gunmen take the who’s who of New York Society hostage. They are after the canary diamond and Macey and Hale have to stop them, with a little help from their friends.
I have never read any Gallagher Girls books, but I really enjoyed Heist Society. This is a fun little novella that peaked my interest in the rest of Ally Carter’s books. I just might have to check them out.
I received a copy of this book from Netgalley.com
Gritty short story collection by some of fantasy’s best authors like Patricia Briggs, Jim Butcher, and Holly Black with urban settings. Dark and atmospheric, great fantasy read.
Another fun short story collection by today’s big stars of fantasy and science fiction.
Do you ever cheer for the monster? Wish that you were an evil genius? Think that the mad scientist should win once in a while? Then The Mad Scientist’s Guide to World Domination is the book for you. Full of nefarious plots and slavering Igors, it is a wildly entertaining romp of short stories where the superheros are often just stupid saps and the wicked do not get their just deserts. Muahahahahaha!
The Ways of White Folks is a short story collection of the great poet and Missourian Langston Hughes. These intersections of white and black life are brutal and heart breaking in Hughes’ distinct melodic spare style. Succinct empathetic stories of early 20th century African American life.
This slim volume covers two previously unpublished Vonnegut works. The first, “Basic Training”, is a very early novella, written a few years before “Player Piano”. “Basic Training” follows young Haley to his relative’s farm after the death of his parents. The head of the family is known as The General and runs the family in military fashion. The second half of the book is a unfinished novel entitled “If God Were Alive Today”. It is classic late Vonnegut, bitter, ironic and unabashedly honest. The protagonist, Gil Berman, is a self-proclaimed stand-up comedian who tackles everything from politics to morals to social mores and just about everything in between. Both works are semi-autobiographical, which should come as no surprise to any Vonnegut fan.
So, this book isn’t really a graphic novel or part of a series of comics. Instead, it’s a compilation of Bill Willingham’s work from his early days. Before “Fables”, that is. In it, we have a wide variety of tales (and a wide variety of artistic talent), all of which are prefaced with introductions by Willingham. Particular favorites of mine are the stories set in the world of Neil Gaiman’s Sandman. Merv Pumpkinhead as a spy? Yes, please. Not one, but two arcs involving the inscrutable Thessaly (a character I always wanted to hear more about)? Absolutely! Top it off with some entertaining vignettes spanning comic genres and you’ve got one heck of a fun read.