Book review: Project Hanuman, by Stewart Hotston
It’s a book full of anxiety, dread, and suspense, but also a thoughtful exploration of war, negotiation, and potential ways of being.
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Comics Review: The Witch’s Egg, by Donya Todd
The keen sense of visual design contrasts the childlike aspects of the character art. That’s not due to a lack of skill; this is clearly deliberate. There really is a striking degree of intentionality, here. The level of detail and the superabundance of decoration in the art and the page layouts makes that very clear.
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Psychotronic Perspectives: THE GHOSTS OF HANLEY HOUSE (1968) Directed by Louise Sherrill
“And it is in the execution of the familiar conception that I think writer/director Louise Sherrill achieves something wonderful and eerie on a microscopic budget.”
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Book Review: BIRTH OF A DYNASTY by Chinaza Bado
The novel is hugely entertaining and compulsively readable, while achieving a great deal of moral depth and nuances in its characters and plot, as well as some fascinating world-building.
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Book Review: What Stalks the Deep, by T. Kingfisher
One of the things I really enjoyed about this novella is that, like What Moves the Dead, the investigation and subsequent reactions felt very much like an ensemble effort from the characters.
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Book Review: Aunt Tigress by Emily Yu-Xuan Qin
It’s full of heart, romance, and friendship, despite the miserable angst of several characters; it’s full of magic, despite gritty reality that includes financial strain and attempted roofies; and it contains some amazing revelations, along with some things that I was sure all along must be true.