Review

  • Warmachine Vengeance Review: Menoth

    Warmachine Vengeance Review: Menoth

    IN SHORT: Warmachine Vengeance has arrived. Let’s dig in. As with previous releases, every Warmachine army gets a healthy heaping of awesome, this time with an emphasis on speed with exciting cavalry units and mobile warcasters. It also ushers in an interesting cast of journeymen warcasters. The book is printed in stellar full color with plenty…

  • Warmachine Vengeance Review: Khador

    Warmachine Vengeance Review: Khador

    IN SHORT: Warmachine Vengeance has arrived. Let’s dig in. As with previous releases, every Warmachine army gets a healthy heaping of awesome, this time with an emphasis on speed with exciting cavalry units and mobile warcasters. It also ushers in an interesting cast of journeymen warcasters. The book is printed in stellar full color with plenty…

  • Dark Souls II Collector’s Edition Guide – Book Review

    IN SHORT: A lavishly produced 460-page hardcover tome with everything a Dark Souls II fan could want. WHAT IT IS: Massive and beautifully bound, this collector’s edition guide for Dark Souls II not only includes a great deal of information about the game, but also sheds light on its sometimes nebulous background story. Many sections…

  • Pacific Rim: Tales from Year Zero – Book Review

    Pacific Rim: Tales from Year Zero – Book Review

    One movie reviewer commented that the Pacific Rim movie watched like a sequel to a previous movie that the filmmakers forgot to make. This was possibly due to its quick prologue, which summed up the movie’s tagline (“To fight monsters we created monsters”) via disaster montage and then fast forwarded to the present of the…

  • Future Diary, Volume 1 – Book Review

    Future Diary, Volume 1 – Book Review

    Yukiteru Amano is a perpetual bystander. Since he prefers not to interact with other people, he occupies his time by keeping a cell phone diary of random goings-on that occur around him. Oh, and by hanging out with his imagined friend Deus ex Machina, the God of Time and Space…who, Yuki finds, is not so…

  • Airman – Book Review

    Airman – Book Review

    Conor Broekhart was made for the air. Born in the middle of a hot air balloon crash, he has ever since sought to reenter the atmosphere. As the student of a French aeronautics expert, not to mention a family friend of the king of the scientifically-curious Saltee Islands, he’s in a perfect position to make…

  • Lizzie Newton: Victorian Mysteries, Volume 1 – Book Review

    Lizzie Newton: Victorian Mysteries, Volume 1 – Book Review

    Lizzie Newton is equal parts Agatha Christie and Sherlock Holmes, a budding mystery writer who does more than write mysteries—She solves them, too. No one wants to believe this of her, though, because this is the Victorian era, after all, and women don’t do that sort of thing. This is why Lizzie must hide her…

  • The Dragons of Jupiter – Kirkus Reviews It!

    Kirkus, the gold standard of book reviews, has reviewed The Dragons of Jupiter! And you know what? They liked it! Here is their review in full: “An entertaining sci-fi action novel with light overtones of dystopian and political thrillers. In Holo’s debut, set in a future version of our solar system, two brothers find themselves divided…

  • Ender’s Game – Movie Review

    Ender’s Game – Movie Review

    IN SHORT: Aliens invaded and kicked our butts. Now it’s our turn to show them who’s boss by unleashing our most terrifying weapon … children. WHAT IT IS: A phenomenal sci-fi adventure with brains, beauty, and thrilling action. WHAT IT IS NOT: This is not your typical YA movie. Ender’s story is not a cheerful…

  • The Dragons of Jupiter – 15 Reviews! Average of 4.8 Stars!

    The Dragons of Jupiter – 15 Reviews! Average of 4.8 Stars!

    So far, The Dragons of Jupiter has received 15 reader reviews: 10 on Amazon, 3 on Goodreads, and 2 on Smashwords. The response has been overwhelmingly positive, with an average rating of 4.8 stars out of 5. It’s absolutely wonderful to hear from people who enjoyed the story, and that certainly makes all the hard…