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Fantasy Novels & Graphic Novels

The After World: a novel Review Available in paperback (love this editions cover) 5 stars What a bleak, awesome, creative, masterful, apocalyptic dystopian novel that subtly pays homage to many works published before of the same genre without being obvious. It is meta in many ways, futuristic, unrealistic, yet completely possible as a future for our demise as a human race, ignoring climate change. The narrator is unique, and the last pages will turn the entire novel into some

Weekend Read. I am so grateful that B&N re-opened in Chicago. I was so sad to see all the stores gone. One just opened this past Wednesday, and the second will open on June 26th. Very happy. 4.75 stars I couldn't resist jumping into this book as a huge fan of survival novels, nature vs. men. James Patterson takes Michael Crichton's manuscript into a thrilling non-stop adventure to the islands of Hawaii. The big one will erupt soon, but that is not the only concern it may end

My review 5 plus This is one of my first 2024 reads and turned out to be one of my favorite fantasy series that is middle-grade but will please readers of all ages who love the coming-of-age story of a dragon meeting his rider, and not a portal fantasy. Plus, it's more than one POV and has a great creative take on how dragons are born, how the world deals with magic, and how to pick riders. The relationship between the rider and dragon, or the young girl searching for her r

My top for July: Island 731 by Jeremy Robinson - for fans of Jurassic Park and The Island of Dr. Moreau The Very Unfortunate Wish of Melony Yoshimura Book by Waka T. Brown - awesome Japanese oni and curse The Demon Asperides by Sarah Jean Horwitz - awesome rpg quest The Awakening Storm: City of Dragons #1 by Jaimal Yogis - inheriting dragons and powers _____ #bookstagram #julyfavorites #island731 #thriller #horror #actionadventure #japanesemythology #fantasybooks #scifibooks