The Book of Memory Gaps by Cecilia Ruiz

The book is a collection of pictures and short stories accompanying each picture. All of the pictures are sad, they tell of people with memory problems and the despair that surrounds them.

It's a short, quick read that is nice and sad and enjoyable all at once. The pictures are beautiful and convey the sadness each character endures.

Rating 5 out of 5
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Age of Darkness Volume 1 by Patrick Shand

I love villains, they always have such great, twisted back stories, not to mention they get really cool colors and they always sound so dramatic, oh and best of all they always have really cool powers.

So, this book follows the return of the Dark Queen and her quest to eliminate all the highborns. It was good, the graphics were great and my favorite was by far the scary tooth fairy. She eats human teeth and she also eats human bones. How awesome is that? 

The Grimm Fairy Tales graphic novels put a fun and grizzly twist on the characters Disney made too frilly. Definitely get yourself a copy and continued to check out this series.

Rating 4 out of 5

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Legends of Red Sonja by Tamora Pierce, Mercedes Lackey, and Marjorie M. Liu

I think the most funny part in this book was when Gerd, one of the minor story tellers in this book suggest to Sonja that wearing a metal bikini as armor, saying that it will make her faster and that it will distract the enemy because they'll be too busy looking at her curves.

The story follows a group of bounty hunters on the hunt for Red Sonja; through their journey, they encounter many people who tell them about her greatness and her exploits, not knowing that Sonja has following them along and picking them off one-by-one; she's been leading them to where she wants them.

The entire book is basically an entire collection of short stories, it was an okay book, not great, but okay. Would I recommend it, you bet your iron bikini I would. It's always great when a woman kicks some he-man ass.

Rating 3 out of 5

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Pinocchio, Vampire Slayer by Dusty Higgins

Netgalley provided an ARC that only goes to the halfway mark of the book [bummer]. Well, the first half of the book was good. Picture this, Pinocchio and Gepetto survive the great whale, but Pinocchio is still a wooden boy, Gepetto begins to warn Pinocchio of the great evil that is coming; but what does Pinocchio [who is still a bad boy] do, he ignores the warnings and Gepetto gets killed by vampires. As they're about to kill Pinocchio he tells a lie and pierces a vamp, turning him to flames, then dust. Now Pinocchio becomes a good boy and sets off on a quest to kill all vamps.

At the halfway mark Pinocchio becomes a real boy and the ARC cuts off, but it left me with such a cliff hanger that I'm now gonna have to go and buy; yes go, as in go to a store, if I have to buy it I want a nice hard copy.

The novel is all black and white, but it totally works with the vampire and old world motif its rocking. So this is definitely a fun read.

Rating 4 out of 5
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Telling Tales by Patience Agbabi

Often a little hard to follow if you're just reading it, I felt that this book should spoken out loud when reading. The rhythm flowed naturally and in a lyrical sort of way. 

I enjoyed the book and if you're a fan of musical poetry, you will enjoy this book. 

Rating 3.5 out of 5

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