Thought Train to Pusan

--> After finishing the 3 rd season of AMC’s tv adaptation of Preacher this summer, and then reading the subsequent article on Pajiba about where it may go from here based on clues from the comics , I figured it was a good time to maybe check out Garth Ennis’ books for myself: I am a fan of reading comics from time to time, and this at least has a clear start and finish unlike some other characters with their many many arcs and appearances in other series, etc. And it’s also always interesting to see how things get adapted from their source and how two different mediums will deal with the same subject. But I’m getting ahead of myself here, just saying that this review will obviously have some comparisons being made between the two, which I think is pretty inevitable. The Preacher series follows Jesse Custer (whose initials I didn’t notice the heavy symbolism behind until the last couple of books, I’m ashamed to say), a revered in a small Texas town who finds hims...

I’ve read a few of Holly Black’s other novels dealing with faeries which were alright but not bad, and hearing good things about The Cruel Prince , I figured it was worth a read! And it was quite an entertaining YA novel, though I can’t say that I loved it. The Cruel Prince begins with three young sisters living in the human world: two twins named Taryn and Jude, and an older sister who is actually half-human-half-fae named Vivienne (or Vivi). The three live with their mother and father, until the father of Vivi returns to bring his daughter back to the faerie world, and also takes the other two siblings with him. From there, we follow Jude at the age of 17, years after coming to the faerie world, and trying to find her place. It is a time of some unrest as a new King is rumored to soon be crowned, and while Jude wants nothing more than to be a knight, she soon finds herself embroiled in a world of intrigue and underground conspiracy. This story involves so...

I actually just heard about this novel from a recent list on Pajiba titled: “ 6 Romance and YA Novels We’d Like to See Netflix Adapt Following ‘To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before’ ”, and upon seeing it described as being about a “magical gay fish boy”, I immediately started text-hollering to my best friend about what a big time it is for fish-people/cryptid… lovers (which is one of our running jokes right now, I KNOW it’s not as funny to anyone that isn’t the two of us). But anyways, I just had to know more. And what I got was a strange mix of magic and escapism, but a lot of realism and emotion too. It didn’t entirely work for me, but it also wasn’t awful either so I’m not entirely sure how I feel about it at the end of the day. Let us dive in: Teeth is told from the point of view of a teenager named Rudy, whose family has recently moved to a small, remote island where people go when they are ill to feed on a specific species of fish which only live there: thes...