This is the definition of perfection for children books!! This was amazing! Stunning artwork, masterwork level! And a story that have it all. It was funny, very entertaining, interesting social «criticism» too and it was all deliver in a format that play with both the comic book form and the picture book, offering a massive 234 pages book, but that offer a very smooth reading eve if the number of pages might seem strange for a children book. It will please readers from all age. Final point, this book prove me right, when I give by rating for children book, saying they are too light, too simple, childish drawing or whatever. This book prove me right, proving that you can do good, original and beautiful book for children and that children book is not just an easy market where you can shelve everything half mash-up because this is for children. I highly recommend this one. I read this on epub format but I will buy a physical copy of it eventually for sure!!

Quel plaisir de lire Christian Bobin! Je lis Bobin comme je lis Gilles Archambault, dans une douce mélancolie. Je crois que c’est Victor Hugo qui disait : «La mélancolie, c’est le bonheur d’être triste.» Rien de plus vrai pour moi et Bobin, comme Archmbault, m’y accompagne. Une écriture magnifique, époustouflante, d’une poésie remarquable. Un auteur incontournable selon moi!

C’était la première fois que je lisais Martin Michaud et je dois malheureusement dire que je suis resté sur mon appétit. Ce n’est pas son livre le plus primé, et c’est pourquoi je le relirai certainement pour voir ce qu’il peut offrir, j’ai d’ailleurs quelques autres livres de lui chez moi, mais pour celui-ci, bien que j’ai aimé le ton, c’est la trame narrative qui m’a déçu. Un peu simple, manque de complexité, d’originalité, de surprise. C’est le genre de roman qu’on ne regrette pas d’avoir lu, mais qu’on oubliera rapidement.

A nice book about worry/anxiety. It can be helpful to talk about it with children, but at the same time it is «disguise» in some sort of «creepy little horror» that makes it fun and not too heavy. I really like the drawing, but a have a mixed feelings about the execution of the subject/story, because while I enjoy and find the concept really interesting, it was lacking the little sparkle that would have make it really captivating from start to finish. I think it could be helpful with some kids, but I also think some will lose interest/attention before the end. That’s why I drop my rating a bit.

2,5/5. This is the second time I read Karen Hamilton and I read enough to know that I won’t read her in the future. Not that she is a bad writer, I honestly think she improve from her previous one in the overall construction of her book.
My problem with it, is more of a genre problem than anything else. The domestic thriller category as expanded in crazy proportion over the last couple of years. And now we get too many things in it, like the YA category, which might need some sub-genre. For me a domestic thriller is a thriller with smaller proportion that involves ordinary people, in more or less ordinary situation. No psycho killer, no cop, the best example of it are Gillian Flynn Gone Girl and Paula Hawkins Girl on The Train, which is the best two that come into mind. Shari Lapena as written decent one too. But Karen Hamilton writes what I would call, new sub-genre, Housewives thrillers. Which is mostly soap with a «thrilling» twist. Closer to romance, lot of domestic rich life, nothing much happening, adultery always a huge thing, etc. This isn’t a bad thing, there is a huge bunch of potential readers for those, but I think that mixing them up in the same genre, is just confusing for readers and will get people to buy/read book that wasn’t for them, and that’s why those book often get very low or very high rating, not much middle/average one.
So, really not for me, I wouldn’t recommend it, but better than her first, so if you like The Perfect Girlfriend than you should have a look at this one.

Toujours aussi divertissant, très fort en action et une excellente qualité au niveau des illustrations! J'ai adoré!

4,5/5. Une quantité phénoménale d'action, mais la complexité de l'intrigue en souffre un peu malheureusement. Toujours extrêment divertissant par contre!!

I have some sort of mixed feelings with this book. First, I really like the writing, the author write in a smooth and fluid way. My problem with it is the way the narrative was told. In fact I think the narrative is just an excuse to write so some of self-help book, and I’m not a huge fan of «non-fiction» disguise as fiction. I think the author could have write more of an essay to pass his idea, which were good and interesting by the way, a bit too religious for me, but still bring the reader to reflect, to think over it. Because I really think, at least the book have me thinking, that the author was more preoccupied by passing on his ideas than delivering a solid story. I wouldn’t say he does it as well as him, but it’s in the same vibes as Mitch Albom in some ways, but Albom have find a better balance between ideas and storytelling.

Interesting magazine. I thought I give it a shout out since it doesn’t appear to me of being well known. This is magazine take the anthology mag format but adapt it to non-fiction so you get interview with authors, essays, excerpts and stuff like that around the sff world. The team behind it seem to do a decent job and if this is something that you’re into then have a look. Not sure how many or how often they published. It seem fairly new (might be the first one) but I could be wrong. It’s also very affordable which is important for a boo/mag like that.

I’m sorry but I really didn’t like this one. The writing was okay, but it’s the narrative and even more the characters that totally turn me off with this book. For the characters this is more of a personal match that didn’t fit, as for the narrative I think there were too many subject trying to be forced I such a short novella and the queer aspect was way too present for me. I have nothing against any kind of genre of sexes preferences or whatever but I always find it weird to put it out up front. I never present myself has a male, born male, and being totally heterosexual, and too often I find it’s the case with LGBTQ book, it’s okay to have them, but it should be a part of a story, not a focus point in my opinion. I would retrieve the horror classification of this one, because juts no, and maybe put a LGBTQ instead, it would be more representative in my opinion and would targeted the public more precisely. Not for me!