Reseña: Orphan Black: Helsinki (collected issues)

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 120 pages
 Expected publication: July 14th 2016 by IDW Publishing

Orphan Black: Helsinki 

by 

Graeme Manson, John Fawcett, Heli Kennedy, 

Denton J. Tipton

Helsinki
Spoken in hushed tones, the word means almost certain death for the clones of Project Leda. Learn the dark secrets of this codename in this special event miniseries by co-creators John Fawcett and Graeme Manson.

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

My Bookshelves  biopunk, clones, genetics-manip, graphic-novel, netgalley, thriller, tv-serie-based


Thought, this volumen seemingly contains the issues 1-5, my digital pdf copy ends at 79% (page 82), so I didn't get a conclussion. There is no covers nor transitions between them.

In season 3 of Orphan Black is mentioned: "abort Helsinki". That incident is described in this comic. When 17 year old Veera Suominem discover been secretely filmed by her 'uncle', before run away she dig the names of 2 other girls from his computer and start a searching without realizing this is more complicated and dangerous than she thought. /SPOILER---->As described before by Ferdinand and Rachel: six Leda clones terminated in Helsinki within 24 hours with 32 as collateral damage. <-----SPOILER.[As described before by Ferdinand and Rachel: six Leda clones terminated in Helsinki within 24 hours with 32 as collateral damage. (hide spoiler)]

Reseña: Ink Mage (A Fire Beneath the Skin #1)

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Ink Mage (A Fire Beneath the Skin #1)

by 

Victor Gischler

388 pages

Published 2013 by 47North 

 The city of Klaar has never fallen. No enemy has ever made it across the Long Bridge or penetrated the city’s mighty walls. Even when a powerful invading army shows up at the gates, the duke and his daughter, Rina Veraiin, are certain that it poses little threat.

But they are cruelly betrayed from within and, in a horrific spasm of violence, the city is brought to its knees.

My rating: 2.75 inky

 My bookshelves:  nobility, wizardry, magia, fantasia-epica, netgalley

Strange how honors and burdens are so often confused.

Rina is the would-be duchess in Klaar, when the supposed inexpugnable city is conquered by the Perranese a loyal help her to flee the city.

Let me get strait that this is not a YA book. There is a lot of sex and violence. The tone following the vicissitudes of Tosh -the deserter soldier and one of the others POV- in the city is really diferent, crude and more realistic, than the adventures following Rina traipsing in the wild searching for the wizards with no plan in her head.

Reseña: The Crown of Ptolemy (Percy Jackson & Kane Chronicles Crossover #3)

The Crown of Ptolemy (Percy Jackson & Kane Chronicles Crossover #3)

by 

Rick Riordan

 

ebook, 63 pages

Published May 12th 2015 by Disney-Hyperion 

ISBN:148470987X (ISBN13: 9781484709870)

Edition Language:English

Series:Percy Jackson & Kane Chronicles Crossover #3

My rating: 2 of 5 stars

My Bookshelves dioses-y-semidioses, fantasia-urbana, myth-and-legends, novelette-short, teen-protagonist, ya-juvenil

Maybe is for really young kids, but that kind of humor it feel cartoon-ish to me.

I enjoy Percy Jackson books, but not the brothers Kane ones (specially Sadie, who keeps making fun of her brother for liking research and books in her eyes been boring).

Anyway, Setne wants to be a god. Not good. So they joined forces against him. Apart for some ideas -dispise really juvenile jokes- is not a good story.

A pity.

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Reseña: Monstress 5 (Novela Gráfica)

Monstress #5 

by  

Marjorie M. Liu

Art: Sana Takeda

Published April 13th 2016 by Image Comics

 Maika is confronted by a powerful Arcanic and struggles with the monster inside her. Meanwhile, the conflict between the human and the Arcanic factions is growing more volatile.

My rating: 4  stars

My Bookshelves; serie favorita, dark fantasy, graphic novel


 

I hunger, and I rage-- and I tell myself there is nothing else inside me.

Despite everything is going on, Maiko is searching for answers about the past.

-The 'grays' here, are sudenly more black-ish.

-The details in the art are gorgeous.

http://marjoriemliu.com/comics/monstress-5/

Reseña: The Mouse that Roared

(Leido para Reto Popsugar #38: un libro satírico)

The Mouse That Roared 

by  

Leonard Wibberley

152 pages

first published February 195

Edition Language_English

 In Leonard Wibberley’s classic political satire, a tiny backwards country decides the only way to survive a sudden economic downturn is to declare war on the United States and lose to get foreign aid – but things don’t go according to plan.

My rating: 3 stars

My bookshelves: satirical, vi-primero-la-pelicula, literary-fiction,  cold-war

Erase que se era un pequeño ducado en el norte de los Alpes Suizos fundado por un mercenario inglés en el siglo XIV, que pasó a llamarse Grand Fenwick (veáse el escudo arriba). “By remarkable good fortune, Sir Roger had chosen to establish his duchy in a spot which lay on no great trade route, possessed no mines of precious metals or metals of any kind, had no harbours or great waterways and indeed nothing whatever to commend it to a conqueror.”

Sin más que cinco mil habitantes, su economia se encontraba basada en su vino Pinot. Bueno, eso fue hasta que ya no ...

Reseña: El Rithmatista (Rithmatista #1)

El Rithmatista (Rithmatista #1)

by  

Brandon Sanderson

448 pages

(first published May 13th 2013)

Original Title The Rithmatist

ISBN 8466655867 (ISBN13: 9788466655866)

Edition Language Spanish

My rating: 3.5 stars





Con un escenario de Estados Unidos convertido en un montón de islas en el siglo XX (lo cual nos deja con la duda si esto por el diluvio, quizás, o una guerra u otra cosa), nos vemos bajo el punto de vista de Joel Saxon, un muchacho de 16 años, en la Academia Armedius en Jamestown, en la isla de Nueva Britania, donde enseñan a estudiantes rhitmatistas y 'normales'.

Reseña: The King (Black Dagger Brotherhood #12)

The King (Black Dagger Brotherhood #12)

by  

J.R. Ward

592 pages

Published April 1st 2014 by Penguin Group (USA)

ISBN:110160218X (ISBN13: 9781101602188)

Edition Language: English

Blurb:

  Long live the King...

After turning his back on the throne for centuries, Wrath, son of Wrath, finally assumed his father’s mantle—with the help of his beloved mate. But the crown sets heavily on his head. As the war with the Lessening Society rages on, and the threat from the Band of Bastards truly hits home, he is forced to make choices that put everything—and everyone—at risk.

Beth Randall thought she knew what she was getting into when she mated the last pure blooded vampire on the planet: An easy ride was not it. But when she decides she wants a child, she’s unprepared for Wrath’s response—or the distance it creates between them.

The question is, will true love win out... or tortured legacy take over?

My rating: 1,5  of 5 stars

Bookshelves  adult-mature, fantasia-urbana, oh-no-he-didnt, paranormal-romance, vampiros, warriors

Pimps and drug dealers are NOT romantic/tormented heroes .

Also, not impressed with Wrath.

Reseña: Doorways in the Sand

Doorways in the Sand 

by  

Roger Zelazny

240 pages

(first published March 1976)

ISBN: 006100328X (ISBN13: 9780061003288)

Edition Language: English

URL

http://aok.lib.umbc.edu/specoll/Zelazny/index.php

Literary Awards:

Hugo Award Nominee for Best Novel (1976), Nebula Award Nominee for Best Novel (1976), Locus Award Nominee for Best Novel (1976)

My rating: 4,5 estrellas de 5

The hot sands had shouted them through me all afternoon, then night's frigid breezes had whispered the motto at the overdone lamb chop, my ear: “You are a living example of the absurdity of things.”

Se dice que Zelazny escribió esto sin hacerle rectificaciones. Contiene aliens, referencias literarias varias, surrealismo bordeando en la sátira, prosa hermosa por momentos, visos de género detectivesco, y, claro está, fantasía.

(O, bien podria decirse que es: Como Zelazny Re-escribió Alicia a Través del Espejo ... o su versión estereoisómerica, con un pequeño twist)

Reseña: Star Trek: Manifest Destiny #1 (Novela Gráfica)

Star Trek: Manifest Destiny #1 (of 4)

by  

Mike Johnson Ryan, Parrott, Angel Hernandez (Illustrator)

 

First Edition IDW Publishing Abril 2016

40 páginas.

http://www.idwpublishing.com/product/star-trek-manifest-destiny-1/

My rating: 3.5 stars of 5

My Bookshelves  adventure, ciencia-ficcion, graphic-novel, netgalley,

(Digital Arc gently provided by Netgalley and Diamond Book Distributors)



We are back with the Enterprise adventures after the 2009 crew. (el personaje menos logrado en dibujo ens Kirk)

The first pages introduced the violence and conqueror's Klingon behaviour; and Bones really rocks in this volume.

Reseña: Friday Night Bites (Chicagoland Vampires #2)

Friday Night Bites (Chicagoland Vampires #2)

by  

Chloe Neill

  

357 pages

(first published  2009)

ISBN:045122793X (ISBN13: 9780451227935)

Edition Language English

 Blurb:
 Vamps in Chicago!
 You’d think headlines like that would have provoked the fine citizens of the Windy City to take up arms against us bloodsucking fiends. Instead, ten months later, we’re enjoying a celebrity status reserved for the Hollywood elite—fending off paparazzi only slightly less dangerous than cross and stake-wielding slayers. Don’t get me wrong, Joe Public isn’t exactly thrilled to be living side-by-side with the undead, but at least they haven’t stormed the castle yet.


My rating: 2.5 stars

First thought : where is the rest of the book?

I push myself to finish this book because I included it in a challenge.