Reviews

Batman: The Killing Joke (2008) written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Brian Bolland gets a make-over in this deluxe edition of a comic that was written 20 years ago.
On the cover, Tim Burton states that:
I loved THE KILLING JOKE…It’s my favorite. It’s the first comic I ever loved.”
Well, I enjoyed The Killing Joke. Must […]

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Mystic River (2003) by Dennis Lehane is set in the author’s hometown of Boston. It is a poignant and emotionally moving story that cleverly disguises itself as a police procedural.
In fact, the story is told in third person and seems to be more of a character study about friendship and working class families surviving the […]

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Sweetheart (2008) by Chelsea Cain is the sequel to last years, New York Times bestseller, Heartsick. The story is told in third person and is set in Portland, Oregon.
The story takes place two months after the events of the last book.
Detectives Archie Sheridan and his partner, Henry Sobol are investigating a Jane Doe found in Forest […]

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Fables: Legends in Exile (2002) written by Bill Willingham and Illustrated by Lan Medina is available in paperback, published by Vertigo and retails for $9.99 US.
This is an ongoing series featuring fairy tale characters who find themselves uprooted from their fairy realm and living in secret exile in upstate New York.
Do you enjoy fairy tales? You […]

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There are so few well written, no - smartly written romantic suspense novels today. I’d be hard pressed to list you ten. I don’t mean to be dismissive but romantic suspense is my least favorite genre because they are almost always unoriginal with characters who do not speak or act to their stated potentials.
Reading […]

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