Reseña: Shattered Bonds (Jane Yellowrock #13)

Shattered Bonds (Jane Yellowrock #13)

by 

Faith Hunter

380 pages

Published October 29th 2019 by Ace

ISBN: 0399587985 (ISBN13: 9780399587986)

Edition Language: English

Series: Jane Yellowrock #13

 

SYNOPSIS: Jane Yellowrock is a shapeshifting skinwalker, and vampire killer-for-hire, but her last battle with an ancient arcane enemy has brought her low. She seeks retreat in the Appalachian Mountains to grieve the loss of her friends, and to heal--or to die--from the disease brought on by her magic.
But malevolent elements in the paranormal community still seek to destroy Jane, and the younger Son of Darkness stalks her, even into the safety of the hills. With nowhere to run and her body failing, the rogue-vampire hunter and her inner Beast must discover a way to defeat this new threat, and find a form that gives her a chance to fight another day.

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Mis estanterias:
bloody-and-gory, fantasia-urbana, horror, not-sure-but-not-human, series-favoritas, shapeshifters, shifter_puma, skinwalker, vampiros, witches-wizards

My entire life was death and destruction. And each droplet of my future was a world of even more horrors if I didn’t fix what was happening here and now. Or if I allowed the arcenciels to go back in time and destroy the vamps at conception. Or if I allowed the war in the heavens to start. But I didn’t know how to stop any of that.

what a ride, more gory than ever.

The vampires take the war unto american lands,against the Queen.

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Pelicula recomendada: My Paparotti (Korea, 2013)

 Movie: My Paparotti (English title)

• Director: Yoon Jong-Chan
• Writer: Yoo Young-A, Lee Hae-Je
• Producer: Park Moo-Seung, Lee Suk-Won
• Release Date: March 14, 2013

Sang-Jin (Han Suk-Kyu) es un profesor de música en una escuela secundaria de artes en la pequeña ciudad de Gimcheon, donde su director lo presiona para recibir a un estudiante nuevo que ha sido expulsado de muchas otras escuelas, es Jang-Ho (Lee Je-Hoon), y vaya su impresión de este no es nada de favorable.

Que historia tan linda, un chico gangster lleno de problemas y un profesor saturado de todo.

Ojo, que no es una historia romántica, sino una humana.

Recomendada para todos quienes amamos la música, sobre todo la música clásica y los buenos cantantes, y a aquellos dispuestos a jugárselo todo por un sueño.

Una de las gracias de la pelicula es que esta basada en una historia real.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIdOYYz-NsY


http://asianwiki.com/My_Paparotti

Reseña: Crowded, Vol. 1

Crowded, Vol. 1 

by 

Christopher Sebela

Ro Stein (Artist)

Ted Brandt (Artist)

169 pages

Published March 26th 2019 by Image Comics

ISBN: 1534310541 (ISBN13: 9781534310544)

Edition Language: English

Series: Crowded #1-6

My rating: 4.5 stars

What an interesting idea. I liked the drawing style too.

In the near future, they invent an app where you can raise funds to kill a person: Reapr. Who gets the target gets the money. Originally it has been used in politicians and celebrities, or managers of corporations, people with weight that influences lives and who many want revenge, but one day the protagonist Charlotte 'Charlie' Ellison finds herself running away because everyone in Los Angeles wants to kill her for the Reward for your life.

Now she must survive for 30 days, because after that everything is void and they cannot choose her again.

Reseña: Fence vol 1-2-3 (comics)

Estoy en un reto de Bingo de comic-manga, asi que empecé a leer este comic que tiene bastante hype. Lamento informar que no los encontré para tanto.

Fence, Vol. 1 

by

Writer: C.S. Pacat

Artist: Johanna the Mad 

Colorist: Joana Lafuente
Letterer: Jim Campbell

  

112 pages

Published July 31st 2018 by BOOM! Box (first published April 11th 2018)

ISBN: 1684151929 (ISBN13: 9781684151929)

Edition Language: English

SYNOPSIS:  Sixteen-year-old Nicholas Cox is an outsider to the competitive fencing world. Filled with raw talent but lacking proper training, he signs up for a competition that puts him head-to-head with fencing prodigy Seiji Katayama…and on the road to the elite all-boys school Kings Row. A chance at a real team and a place to belong awaits him—if he can make the cut!

Esta dirigido a un público juvenil, con personajes LGBT, transcurre en una escuela privada , y en el mundo de los practicantes  y competidores de esgrima.

El primer volumen nos presenta a Nicholas Cox, con mucho talento crudo, pero escaso entrenamiento, que esta determinado a vencer al campeon, quien no es nada menos que su medio hermano, el hijo legitimo que lo ha tenido todo, mientras que Nicholas es el hijo ilegitimo y abandonado.

Reseña. The Unidentified Redhead (Redhead 1)

The Unidentified Redhead 

by  

Alice Clayton

252 pages

(first published January 1st 2010)

ISBN: 1936305070 (ISBN13: 9781936305070)

Edition Language: English

Series: Redhead #1

BLURB: When Grace Sheridan returns to Los Angeles to become a working actor, it's a second shot at a life-long dream. With some help from her best friend and agent, that dream could become a reality, but at thirty-three, has Grace missed her chance at the big time? Will an unexpected sizzling romance with the entertainment industry's newest 'it' boy shine an uncomfortable spotlight on her life?

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Mis problemas con este libro por cosas que me molestan : humor grosero, conduccion irresponsable y mmm no me convencio. 

Reseña de ARC: A Girl, A Raccoon, and the Midnight Moon.

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A Girl, a Raccoon, and the Midnight Moon 

by  

Karen Romano Young

392 pages

Expected publication: January 7th 2020 by Chronicle Books

ISBN: 1452169527 (ISBN13: 9781452169521)

Edition Language: English

BLURB: In a slightly fantastical New York City, one very special library branch has been designated for possible closure. Bookish, socially awkward Pearl, the daughter of the librarian, can't imagine a world without the library—its books, its community of oddballs, its hominess. When the head of their Edna St. Vincent Millay statue goes missing, closure is closer than ever. But Pearl is determined to save the library. And with a ragtag neighborhood library crew—including a constantly tap-dancing girl who might just be her first friend, an older boy she has a crush on, and a pack of raccoons who can read and write—she just might be able to. 
 Age Range: 9-12 years

4.5 let's enjoy to read stars

I don't know but I loved it.

It is said that a village is needed to raise a child, well what do you think of a library? In this beautiful story about a girl, the librarian's daughter, and where we are in a world that points strongly towards globalization maybe we lost some things, we here recover the sense of love of a small community that represents a family, about friendship, facing together and with imagination to the difficulties, and besides, of course how our little world can be much bigger thanks to the books.

Pearl is a complicated , bookish, precocius girl, and the Lancaster Library is all her world. She never thought something will change. Well, sometimes the change come with a bang, or with a inconcebible act that led to more changes, not all bad.

Reseña de ARC: The Singer's Crown: The Author's Cut

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The Singer's Crown: The Author's Cut 

by 

Elaine Isaak

589 pages

Published July 2nd 2019 by Rocinante (first published October 11th 2005)

ASIN: B07RL81CB5 

Lenguaje: Inglés

BLURB: When his uncle murders his family to take the throne, Prince Kattanan DuRhys is the only royal left alive. . . at a terrible cost. Stripped of his manhood, Kattanan travels as a court singer from one wealthy patron to the next. Given as a courtship gift to the young Princess Melisande, Kattanan feels the stirring of emotions he thought were denied him. But her jealous fiancée has other plans--and the sinister magic to carry them out.
Must Kattanan sacrifice his song to win his kingdom, and the woman he loves?

My rating: 2.8 stars 

The wimpiest and lame protagonists of all. The secondary are a bit better and more interesting.

This is a medieval fantasy.

The story opens up as many stories of a bloody royal succession, the murdered family, and with the youngest prince to whom they forgive his life but at the same time neutralize to prevent it from being a threat of succession - they castrate him.

Reseña de ARC: The Avant-Guards Vol. 1

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The Avant-Guards, Vol. 1 

by 

Carly Usdin

Noah Hayes (Illustrator)

112 pages

Published September 3rd 2019 by BOOM! Box (first published August 28th 2019)

ISBN: 1684153670 (ISBN13: 9781684153671)

Series: The Avant-Guards #1-4 

BLURB: As a transfer student to the Georgia O’Keeffe College for Arts and Subtle Dramatics, former sports star Charlie is struggling to find her classes, her dorm, and her place amongst a student body full of artists who seem to know exactly where they’re going. When the school’s barely-a-basketball-team unexpectedly attempts to recruit her, Charlie’s adamant that she’s left that life behind…until she’s won over by the charming team captain, Liv, and the ragtag crew she’s managed to assemble. And while Charlie may have left cut-throat competition in in the dust, sinking these hoops may be exactly what she needs to see the person she truly wants to be.

Plot - 2 stars

Art - 3 stars

It is not what I expected.

What's up? New girl comes to college, and is chased by another girl who waits for a member to form a women's basketball team.

But in reality, it leaves the impression that she is pursuing her for more personal reasons.

Reseña de ARC: The Dragon's Banker

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The Dragon's Banker 

by 

Scott Warren

255 pages

Published September 25th 2019 by Scott Warren

ASIN: B07TX1SJKF

Edition Language: English 

BLURB: Finance: The lifeblood of any country’s beating heart and the life’s work of Sailor Kelstern — Merchant Banker. While wizards brood in their towers and great warriors charge into battle Sailor is more interested in the price of ore, herbs, and alchemicals carried by the trade ships. But when a spell of bad fortune and bitter rivalry leaves him scrambling to turn a profit on little more than winds and whispers, one such whisper catches Sailor’s ear— a dragon has been seen in the west. Sailor soon finds that the dragons are very real, and not at all what he expected. And they practice a very different sort of economy — one of subterfuge and fire.

With bonus novelette: Forego Quest .  What if you were the hero of every song, story, and legend? What if you didn’t want to be?

My rating: 3.3 pecuniary stars

Master Sailor Kelstern is a banker who goes through difficulties after losing the fortune of a nobleman who is not at all satisfied with that; but that is nothing when faced with the challenge of satisfying a dragon (which is not supposed to exist) towards a new era of change towards paper money.

Kelstern is an interesting character, he is not the hero we are used to, and yet he is no stranger to risk his own skin when necessary. But where he is most comfortable is behind a desk with his esteemed account books, and developing strategies to earn money for his clients and his bank.

Reseña de ARC: Manga Classics: Jane Eyre

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Manga Classics: Jane Eyre

 by 

Chan Crystal S., 

 SunNeko Lee (Art)

Basada en la obra de Charlote Bronte. 

329 pages

Published August 1st 2016 by Udon Entertainment (first published July 12th 2016)

ASIN: B07GL3K51T

Edition Language: English

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Jane Eyre is the story of an orphan girl, despised by her relatives for being poor, and ending in an orphanage of the time, with cold and hunger. Then she will end up going as a girl's governess in Thornfield Hall, there her employer is a temperamental and strange man named Rochester.

This is a classic of literature, and is even considered feminist by many of the character's ideas (which are from believed come from Charlotte Brontë's autobiographical material). The relevant thing about Jane is that a woman who rebels against injustices, and whose bad circumstances fail to undermine her own inner strength, refusing to be trampled by others or to give in to her own convictions.