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usuallyhats) wrote2015-02-02 03:38 pm
usuallyhats) wrote2015-02-02 03:38 pm
Books and comics read in January 2015
*Monstrous Affections ed. Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant
X-factor: Breaking Points
X-factor: Short Stories
The Vagrants - Yiyun Li
Doctor Who and the Ice Warriors - Brian Hayles
X-factor: Change of Decay
The Princess Curse - Merrie Haskell
Hawkeye: L.A. Woman
Star Trek/Doctor Who: Assimilation2 Volume 1
*Murder Most Unladylike - Robin Stevens
Vixen: Return of the Lion
The Red Panda: Mask of the Red Panda
Fool's Errand - Robin Hobb
Saucer Country: The Reticulan Candidate
Loki Agent of Asgard: I Cannot Tell A Lie
*World's Finest
*Spirits Abroad - Zen Cho
*Hild - Nicola Griffith
*Rat Queens: Sass and Sorcery
Sex Criminals: One Weird Trick
Doctor Who: Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible - Marc Platt
Monstrous Affections
I got this for the Sarah Rees Brennan story, "Wings in the Morning", and both it and the prequel novel she accidentally wrote were excellent, full of her usual mix of feelings, hilarity and feminism. ♥ The rest of the anthology, while basically fine, was rather less to my taste, though I did really like Holly Black's SF story, and Kathleen Jennings's short comic was delightful.
Murder Most Unladylike
This is a thirties girls boarding school murder mystery with a Chinese protagonist and it was more or less everything I was hoping for based on that description. Hurray!
World's Finest (this one!)
Fun team up book, though not quite as fun as I wanted it to be. (Also, don't tease me with a Selina/Steph team up and then not do it! D:) I felt like it got better as it went along, but that might have been because the team up I was least interested in (Red Robin and Chris Kent) came first. Mostly I just really enjoyed seeing the preboot characters I loved again: Damian being a brat (♥), Steph hanging out with Kara and being a dork, and Oracle running everything. Not to mention Dick!Bats teaming up with Superman, yesssss. I was less interested in the Action Comics issue about the Toyman, because I don't care about villains and the Toyman in particular hits some squicks of mine, but the old DC Presents issue, featuring Superman and Robin (the Teen Wonder :DDDD) teaming up, was fun.
Spirits Abroad
I very much enjoyed this varied collection of short stories. I think my favourite was "Prudence and the Dragon" - I'd love to read more set in this casually magical world, and to see more of Prudence herself and her friend Angela (who takes centre stage in the next story) - but they all had something to recommend them.
Hild
I loved this - I felt like the relatively slow pace really helped me sink into the seventh century world it was conjuring up. I love historical novels that manage to really recreate their time period without feeling like the author is jamming in everything they know about it willy-nilly, and this definitely succeeded on that count. Hild herself was also a fascinating character, and I'm glad to hear the author is working on another volume.
Rat Queens: Sass and Sorcery
This was a little gorier than I usually go for, but I enjoyed it a great deal regardless - it's got a wonderfully raucous energy to it, and the camaraderie between the four main characters really rang true. I'm looking forward to seeing how the plot and the characters develop in later volumes.
I also read the Sleepy Hollow miniseries, but since Boom don't seem to have announced the trade yet I can't list it properly, grumble grumble. Anyway, it was pretty good, definitely recommended to fans of the show (who don't mind that lieutenant is spelt leftenant in all of Ichabod's dialogue /o\). The backup stories by Noelle Stevenson were particularly delightful.
X-factor: Breaking Points
X-factor: Short Stories
The Vagrants - Yiyun Li
Doctor Who and the Ice Warriors - Brian Hayles
X-factor: Change of Decay
The Princess Curse - Merrie Haskell
Hawkeye: L.A. Woman
Star Trek/Doctor Who: Assimilation2 Volume 1
*Murder Most Unladylike - Robin Stevens
Vixen: Return of the Lion
The Red Panda: Mask of the Red Panda
Fool's Errand - Robin Hobb
Saucer Country: The Reticulan Candidate
Loki Agent of Asgard: I Cannot Tell A Lie
*World's Finest
*Spirits Abroad - Zen Cho
*Hild - Nicola Griffith
*Rat Queens: Sass and Sorcery
Sex Criminals: One Weird Trick
Doctor Who: Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible - Marc Platt
Monstrous Affections
I got this for the Sarah Rees Brennan story, "Wings in the Morning", and both it and the prequel novel she accidentally wrote were excellent, full of her usual mix of feelings, hilarity and feminism. ♥ The rest of the anthology, while basically fine, was rather less to my taste, though I did really like Holly Black's SF story, and Kathleen Jennings's short comic was delightful.
Murder Most Unladylike
This is a thirties girls boarding school murder mystery with a Chinese protagonist and it was more or less everything I was hoping for based on that description. Hurray!
World's Finest (this one!)
Fun team up book, though not quite as fun as I wanted it to be. (Also, don't tease me with a Selina/Steph team up and then not do it! D:) I felt like it got better as it went along, but that might have been because the team up I was least interested in (Red Robin and Chris Kent) came first. Mostly I just really enjoyed seeing the preboot characters I loved again: Damian being a brat (♥), Steph hanging out with Kara and being a dork, and Oracle running everything. Not to mention Dick!Bats teaming up with Superman, yesssss. I was less interested in the Action Comics issue about the Toyman, because I don't care about villains and the Toyman in particular hits some squicks of mine, but the old DC Presents issue, featuring Superman and Robin (the Teen Wonder :DDDD) teaming up, was fun.
Spirits Abroad
I very much enjoyed this varied collection of short stories. I think my favourite was "Prudence and the Dragon" - I'd love to read more set in this casually magical world, and to see more of Prudence herself and her friend Angela (who takes centre stage in the next story) - but they all had something to recommend them.
Hild
I loved this - I felt like the relatively slow pace really helped me sink into the seventh century world it was conjuring up. I love historical novels that manage to really recreate their time period without feeling like the author is jamming in everything they know about it willy-nilly, and this definitely succeeded on that count. Hild herself was also a fascinating character, and I'm glad to hear the author is working on another volume.
Rat Queens: Sass and Sorcery
This was a little gorier than I usually go for, but I enjoyed it a great deal regardless - it's got a wonderfully raucous energy to it, and the camaraderie between the four main characters really rang true. I'm looking forward to seeing how the plot and the characters develop in later volumes.
I also read the Sleepy Hollow miniseries, but since Boom don't seem to have announced the trade yet I can't list it properly, grumble grumble. Anyway, it was pretty good, definitely recommended to fans of the show (who don't mind that lieutenant is spelt leftenant in all of Ichabod's dialogue /o\). The backup stories by Noelle Stevenson were particularly delightful.