Reseña de ARC: The Tangleroot Palace: Stories by Marjorie M. Liu

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The Tangleroot Palace: Stories 

by Marjorie M. Liu

 

 256 pages

Published June 15th 2021 by Tachyon Publications

ISBN: 1616963522 (ISBN13: 9781616963521)

Edition Language: English

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

For those that still are confused: NOT A COMIC BOOK.

Anthology of short stories and novelletes , ranging from fantasy to horror and post-apocalypsis.

Apparently a good portion of readers know Marjorie M. Liu from the graphic novel "Monstress, Vol. 1: Awakening", but I have been a fan of her ever since I read "The Iron Hunt" from her incredible urban fantasy series Hunter Kiss. Here she presents us with some of her short stories, of which I knew a couple; At the end of these Liu gives some comments from when they were written, some of which she considers to be part of the universe of her ideas (like Dirk & Steel), that is to say full of magic.

Reseña de Comic: Weird Detective: The Stars Are Wrong

Weird Detective: The Stars Are Wrong

by

Fred Van Lente

Guiu Vilanova (Illustrator), Mauricio Wallace (Illustrations), Josan Gonzalez (Illustrations)

152 pages 

Published February 21st 2017 by Dark Horse Books
ISBN:1506700381 (ISBN13: 9781506700380)
Series: Weird Detective #1-5 Idioma: English

The streets of New York have been plagued by a pattern of crimes too weird and bizarre for the average detective. Lurking in the evidence are shadows of loathsome horrors from beyond space and time, seeking to usher in the unimaginable evil of the Old Ones. And the only man capable of fighting against the unspeakable terrors isn't a man at all. Detective Sebastian Green is one of them--it takes a monster to catch a monster.

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Sebastian Green es un policía de Nueva York que trabaja en Crímenes Menores y que investiga una muerte a todas luces sobrenatural, es un sujeto algo 'peculiar', a quien le colocan una compañera y esto no le hace mucha gracia. Pronto vemos que Greene estaria muy a gusto en el Sunnydale de Whedom, y que la compañera Sana Fayez (una lesbiana musulmana, con problemas de pareja y un bebé) a quien investiga en realidad es a él.

Reseña: Watersnakes (novela gráfica)

 +Digital arc gently provided by Netgalley and editors in exchange for an honest review+

Watersnakes 

by 

Tony Sandoval

Lucas Marangon (traductor)

144 pages

Published November 20th 2018 by Magnetic Press (first published January 1st 2008)

Original Title: Le Serpent d'eau

ISBN: 1942367759 (ISBN13: 9781942367758)

Edition Language: English 

BLURB. Mila is a solitary teenager ready to put another boring summer vacation behind her until she meets Agnes, an adventurous girl who turns out to be a ghost. And not just a regular ghost, but one carrying the essence of an ancient fallen king and a mouth full of teeth that used to be his guardian warriors.

My rating: 1 of 5 stars

Pedi este libro en Netgalley solamente por la portada. Para que vean .

Trata de una chica adolescente que conoce a otra en sus vacaciones. Una chica extraña que usa máscaras , roba y asegura que es un fantasma y solamente ella puede verla. Desde el principio Mila esta obsesionada con los dientes de la chica-fantasma. Es bastante fetichista y perturbador. Luego la cosa se complica con una fantasia de seres en el mar y blah, mucho enredo y cualidad de pesadilla, a saltos.

No la recomiendo.

Reseña: An Apple for the Creature (Antologia)

An Apple for the Creature 

by

Charlaine Harris  (Editor), Toni L.P. Kelner (Editor),

Ilona Andrews, Jonathan Maberry, Donald Harstad, Marjorie M. Liu, Rhys Bowen, Amber Benson, Faith Hunter, Steve Hockensmith, Nancy Holder, Thomas E. Sniegoski, M.R. Carey

  

336 pages

Published 2012 by Ace 

ISBN:0425256804 (ISBN13: 9780425256800)

Edition Language: English

 

BLURB: What could be scarier than the first day of school? How about a crash course in the paranormal from Charlaine Harris and Toni L. P. Kelner, editors of Home Improvement: Undead Edition? Your worst school nightmares—taking that math test you never studied for, finding yourself naked in school assembly, not knowing which door to enter—will pale in comparison to these thirteen original stories that take academic anxiety to whole new realms.

In #1 New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris’s story, "Playing Possum," Sookie Stackhouse brings enough birthday cupcakes for her nephew's entire class but finds she's one short when the angry ex-boyfriend of the school secretary shows up.

When her guardian, Kate Daniels, sends her undercover to a school for exceptional children, teenaged Julie learns an all-new definition of "exceptional," in New York Times bestselling author Ilona Andrews's "Magic Tests." For those who like fangs with their forensics, New York Times bestselling author Nancy Holder offers "VSI," in which FBI agent Claire is tested as never before in a school for Vampire Scene Investigation. And in New York Times bestselling author Thomas Sniegoski's "The Bad Hour," Remy Chandler and his dog Marlowe find evil unleashed in an obedience school.

You'll need more than an apple to stave off the creatures in these and nine other stories. Remember your first lesson: resistance is fruitless!

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

My shelves: fantasia-urbana, ghosts, horror, magia, psychic-powers, shapeshifters, short-story, vampiros, werewolf-hombrelobo-lycans, witches-wizards 

Antologia de relatos cortos de lo sobrenatural y la educación en diversas formas que van desde Ilona Andrews a Charlaine Harris y Faith Hunter, pasando por Marjorie M. Liu (cuya historia buscaba al leer esto), la historia excepcional de Mike Carey y varios otros autores desconocidos para mi. Recibe el nombre por la historia corta de Faith Hunter.

Reseña: The Witch of Duva (Grisha 0.5)

 Relato corto
Free: En Tor
http://www.tor.com/2012/06/06/the-witch-of-duva-a-ravkan-folk-tale/
 

The Witch of Duva (The Grisha #0.5)

by  

Leigh Bardugo

43 pages

Published June 5th 2012 by Tor

Original Title:The Witch of Duva: A Ravkan Folk Tale

ISBN:1466820756 (ISBN13: 9781466820753)

Edition Language:English

 

 

My rating:3,5 starving stars

Winter... Famine.

Intriguing , with elements of traditional fairy tale, the old woman in the woods, the girl, the sweets, the aisolation. The family.... And the tweaks that made a good story.

Bardugo should writte the Grisha book itself like this; instead, I never could pass the first pages.

Puedo imaginar perfectamente como el estar aislados en medio de la nieve y el hielo, aislados y sin nada que comer puede hacer , pero sólo eso. Imaginarlo. Pero parece que todos los cuentos invernales entrañan esa sensación de que muchas cosas pueden suceder en ese miedo, animales, y horrores inarralables. 

Lo peor es saber que eso sucede/sucedió/sucederá cuando no se tiene nada más que perder.

Tan innegable como que la nieve seguirá cayendo cada vez más y más en los años subsiguientes.

Reseña: Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers

Relato corto ganador del Premio Nebula 2016 que pueden encontrar aqui.

Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers 

by  

Alyssa Wong

My rating: 4 estrellas de 5.

Genero: Horror. Fantasía oscura.

Dark and disturbing. Where 'we are what we eat' take a new meaning.

Fantasía oscura, atrapante. Una mujer se alimenta de los pensamientos más oscuros de la gente, hasta que un día una cita resulta tal vez demasiado , perturbando un modo de vida ya precariamente balanceado.





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