Night’s Master by Tanith Lee is a book with a rather unique setting. It’s the first in a series called Tales from the Flat Earth, which imagines a world that is not round, but flat. The gods live in the heavens, the humans on the earth, and the demons in the underworld. The gods created the humans,Read more
Next up on my queue of vacation reading–Black Butler! As I mentioned when I reviewed the first volume, Black Butler is one of my all-time favorite anime series, and I’m now reading the manga that it was based on. Black Butler is set in an alternate version of Victorian England. Ciel Phantomhive, the protagonist, isRead more
Black Butler by Yana Toboso is an alternate history fantasy manga set in Victorian England. The orphaned Ciel Phantomhive is the heir to the Funton Toy empire. He is attended by a butler named Sebastian with seemingly supernatural abilities to run the household, make delicious desserts, and kick bad guy butt–all before dinnertime. For those ofRead more
The Weirdness by Jeremy Bushnell is by far one of the most bizarre books that I’ve ever read. The protagonist, Billy Ridgeway, is a fuck-up. He’s given up on his dreams of being a writer and settled for a life where he (barely) scrapes out a living working at a New York City deli. HeRead more