Tag: Reviews
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Food Wars! S2: Episode 1
(Originally posted on July 5, 2016 on Otakusphere.com) Food porn is very important in my life, mostly because regular porn does nothing for me and I still need something to be deeply ashamed of. And when it comes to food porn, you can hardly do better than Food Wars!, everyone’s favorite anime where people are figuratively…
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That Time I Got Reincarnated as A Slime, Episode 6
(Originally posted on November 8, 2018 on Otakusphere.com) This episode really surprised me. When last episode introduced the idea of Shizu as Rimuru’s “destined” person, I thought the show was probably going to take a roundabout route to get to her. Maybe Rimuru and Shizu would meet on different sides of a big conflict, multiple…
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Racism in Run With The Wind
(Originally posted on April 2, 2019 on Otakusphere.com) Run With The Wind was a great show, one that goes to show just how broad a category like “sports anime” can be. Among the other things it did well, it tackled the subject of racism, and did so in a kind of understated, nuanced way. I rarely…
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Review: Penguin Highway
(Originally posted on June 6, 2019 at Otakusphere.com) Let’s get the most important thing out of the way: the back-of-the-book blurb for Penguin Highway confidently proclaims “Everything made sense…until the penguins showed up!”, which may just be my favorite book summary of all time. In fact, I’m thinking of adopting that phrase as my personal motto. Now…
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Game of Thrones Showed The Failings of Punching Up
(originally posted on Otakusphere.com on June 4, 2019) Many viewers were disappointed by the final episode of HBO’s fantasy behemoth Game of Thrones, but I was not one of them. While invested in the story to some extent, for a long time, I’ve valued the series as a pop-culture phenomenon rather than a narrative, and in…
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Review: Good Omens
(Originally posted on Otakusphere.com on July 5, 2019) The book version of Good Omens occupies an odd place in my personal pantheon. I have great fondness for it, yet even at the time I first read it (sometime in the mid-90s), I wasn’t convinced it all came together that well. Like some of the middle volumes in…
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Review: Game of Crones
Way back when I reviewed Any Witch Way You Can, I mused that I don’t really understand the rules for “cozy” mysteries. Years later I am still confused, because this book has an army of zombies walking around, which is about the most un-cozy thing I can think of, but apparently it’s still a cozy…
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Review: Trouble With the Cursed (The Hollows #16)
WARNING: This review has spoilers. I’ve had a love-hate relationship with this series for over a decade now. I think the extreme reaction happens because I like the world Harrison has created so much, little inconsistencies or things that don’t make sense REALLY bother me, whereas I don’t care so much in most other series.…
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Review: Dark Stranger: The Dream
If you put an ad for a book on my Kindle lockscreen, I will download it like a trained seal. This must be the case, because this isn’t the sort of thing I usually check out. I tend to keep paranormal romance at arm’s length– and I say this as someone whose books have strong…
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Review: Amethyst Witch by Barbra Annino
This book has been on my Kindle lockscreen on and off for several months, and though I wasn’t planning on reading it, I got curious wondering what Stacy was smirking about on the cover, so I gave in. Lockscreen ads work, at least if your book is free in Kindle Unlimited. What I didn’t realize…
Karen L. Mead 