To start with a quick summary: Tara Smith was raised with her identity as a an alien hidden from her, a tall task considering she is a species of lizard that catches on fire. A morning of missed “allergy” meds and a cracked “health” bracelet leads to her powers emerging and The Government getting involved.… Continue reading School for Extraterrestrial Girls: Girl on Fire by Jeremy Whitley and Jamie Noguchi
“Whistle” is a fantastic introduction for a fantastic new superhero. It is at once a classic origin story and a breath of fresh air. Willow Zimmerman and her mother have struggled to makes ends meet as her mother’s (presumably adjunct) job as a professor doesn’t give them health insurance and she hasn’t been able to… Continue reading Whistle: A New Gotham City Hero, written by E. Lockhart
Fast paced and absolutely riveting, “StarLion” is the story of Jordan Harris, a young man with powers derived from the gods, who dreams of being a hero, but has been told to hide his powers and so resorts to vigilante activity in his spare time. The origin of superheroes as descended from the gods of… Continue reading StarLion: Thieves of the Red Night by Leon Langford
Opal Charm: The Path to Dusk by Miri Castor Despite being the third book published in the “Opal Charm” series, “Opal Charm: The Path to Dusk” is actually a prequel that follows Opal’s older brother Jermaine as he comes into the power called Twilight that runs in the Charm family. However, just because this book… Continue reading Opal Charm: The Path to Dusk by Miri Castor
[Edit: Originally published March 4, 2017] This is not a spoiler free review. Opal Charm is back with a new adventure! Actually it’s not new per say, but it’s a new segment of her ongoing quest. We get to see Opal working with her powers a lot more than we did in the first book,… Continue reading Opal Charm: Hope in Nautical Dusk by Miri Castor
[Edit: Originally published May 21, 2016] Nobody Owens, a boy raised by ghosts. When a baby is the only survivor of a family brutally murdered in their homes, he’s taken under the wing of the ghosts of an old cemetery near his house. He is named Nobody by Mrs. Owens, the wife of Mr. Owens,… Continue reading They Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
[Edit: Originally published May 19, 2016] The Brotherhood of Evil Mutants- I’m sorry, the wights and hollowgasts, formerly peculiars who lost their forms in an experiment to increase their powers and raise them to the level of gods, are after the Peculiar Children and Miss Peregrine who is injured and stuck in her bird form.… Continue reading Hollow City by Ransom Riggs
[Edit: Originally published May 16, 2016] When I started reading this book I described it to a friend as a historical fantasy X-Men AU, and having finished it I still stand by that statement. There was the parallel between Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children and The Xavier Institute for Gifted Youngsters that I saw… Continue reading Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
[Edit: Originally published on April 4, 2016] (A note about the snapchat comment: I thought the girl on the cover looked a bit like Caleb Landry Jones, who plays Sean Cassidy in X Men: First Class, Theresa is Sean’s daughter in the X Men comics.) When is a fairy tale not a fairy tale? When… Continue reading The Radiant Road by Katherine Catmull
[Edit: Originally published on March 28, 2016] Are you tired of “a girl and her horse” stories? Well, okay, this is a story about a girl and her horse, but it’s a biracial girl named Astrid and a robotic horse named Padlock. The robotic horses are the Titans that give the book it’s name. It’s a… Continue reading Titans by Victoria Scott
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