My first part of this review is a warning: Don't read this while eating. Three times I read this during my lunch break and all three times I lost my appetite. There is blood and gore and it is descriptive. Second warning: it does deal with child and spousal abuse. It is a very, very dark book and really trippy, but as you can see from my rating, I really enjoyed it. The inside flap description doesn't really do a good job in summarizing this book to make you read it. With most of the content being psychological and delusions, it IS really hard to make a summary. So I will compare this book to the writings of, not Stephen King like everyone else seems to, but Scott Smith with his books "A Simple Plan" and "The Ruins". Very good writing, very descriptive and suspenseful but sometimes super icky.

Zooom! This was a super quick read. I admit to never reading the original book, but the graphic novel was a lot of fun! The art is so-so, but the story is great and intriguing. Will there be a volume 2? Maybe!

Oh good, this sequel to Dragon's Milk, the third book in this series, once again recaptures the adventure and suspense we had in the first book. One more book left in this series. I'm sure I'll finish it quickly.

I'm not sure whether I enjoyed this more than book one or about the same. I mean, I love birds a lot too ("My friend Angie likes birds" is a popular quote among my friends), AND there's dragons? What's not to love? Yet I feel there were many opportunities to turn it into something more. Perhaps the character development could have been explored more. Oh, by the way, this is the story of Kara, who is mentioned in "Dragon's Milk" as the green-eyed girl raised by a dragon who was able to safely lead the dragon kyn to a new land to live. So we know all this going into the book, having read book 1, so maybe that's what took some of the joy out of it. Either way, it was still a great and enjoyable read. Onto book 3!

Another (yaoi) classic finally brought over and officially translated. The humor in this has always cracked me up!

I got this comic based on a blog recommendation, and I'll admit, it was pretty cute! Just your basic BL fluff, and don't worry, Chihiro (the one with the cat-ear jacket) doesn't act the way he looks: an insipid mouth breather. This is a comic that has better art on the inside than the outside!

Hmmm, it seems my end-of-the-year comic rush had a theme of "honey" in the title. Well, this was the second yaoi manga with that theme, and again, like the other one "Honey Darling", this is a lighthearted, fluffy, BL comic. It's broken into two parts with two relationship stories, all taking place within the same law firm. The usual tango of "Oh, but he won't accept me, I'm a GUY, so I'll keep my love a secret and become wimpy and quiet". You know the type. The art is good, but it oddly changed 1/3 of the way though the book, to a simpler, more lazy style. That struck me as odd. Comics can take years to complete, and usually the artist gets better. In this one it's like they lost half their team, mostly in screen tones, or turned to digital rather than ink. Who knows?

This book went by so quickly, and I think most of it is thanks to the lyrical, flowing language, as well as the wonderful story it presents! I'll definitely be recommending this book to anyone over the age of 8, even adults would enjoy this original little tale!