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ClareR (5789 KP) rated Locke & Key, Vol. 1: Welcome to Lovecraft in Books

Apr 11, 2018  
Locke & Key, Vol. 1: Welcome to Lovecraft
Locke & Key, Vol. 1: Welcome to Lovecraft
Joe Hill | 2013 | Comics & Graphic Novels
8
9.1 (10 Ratings)
Book Rating
I keep telling myself not to get involved with another comic series. This book (and the next in the series) is the result of taking my children to the library to while away a wet day during the Easter holiday. I thoroughly enjoyed it, too. It dives straight in to the action from page one. Bits are rather blood thirsty, and it does bend reality (he's his fathers son, and probably fed up with being compared to him as well, but there it is!). It's all about keys and somebody, who isn't particularly nice, wanting to get their hands on them. I don't want to say anything else! All I will say, is that it's well worth giving it a chance.
  
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Cyn Armistead (14 KP) rated Endgame (Sirantha Jax, #6) in Books

Mar 1, 2018  
Endgame (Sirantha Jax, #6)
Endgame (Sirantha Jax, #6)
Ann Aguirre | 2012 | Science Fiction/Fantasy
10
9.0 (2 Ratings)
Book Rating
Endgame is the final book in the Sirantha Jax series, according to Aguirre, and it definitely shows. Everything gets wrapped up very satisfactorily. Nothing new is introduced. Jax's relationships with March and Vel are both expanded in a delightful manner, and I love the way that works out. She also gets to develop a not-quite-motherly relationship with Sasha, March's adopted son.

The entire volume takes place on Laheng, home of the Lahengrin. We've only met the race through Loras so far in the series, but their story is touching. This is Loras' story as much as anything, the story of the fight to free the Lahengrin from the Nicuans and from the need to be owned (or "protected" as it is called). The action is brutal - Aguirre doesn't hide the realities of war. She doesn't dwell on it in an obscene manner, though, so the book is readable.

Reading the ending of a wonderful series is also bittersweet, but at least Aguirre has stated that she'll revisit this universe.