Tyler Boss

Well this was a strong finale for the current story arc. War between the houses reaches the climax that would put Middle Ages to shame, total annihilation and wipe-outs taking place left and right. This culminates with the session between Carlyle and Hock families. What comes pouring out shows how things started and how they ended - world thrown into turmoil and carved out by new feudal lords. Forever takes a desperate action, forced by her family's decisions - question is will she be able to pull it out, it is just too many moving parts in every direction.

I wont go into more details here because everything I say would be a spoiler, trust me lots of things take place.

Pretty good closure and I cannot see where it will go next. In parallel to main story famous Carlyle exile might just make his way back on the stage - as it usually goes in stories like this, he has a grudges of his own.

Highly recommended.… (meer)

You know those stupid YA post-apocalypse stories that create a new societal structure around stupid clans or groups? Well, here's another.

This sort of plays like a dumb version of Walter Hill's The Warriors. In a world where grown-ups are scary and seldom seen, a group of teenagers called the Academy fight and evade a gauntlet of bizarrely-themed rival gangs on an odyssey to find a missing member who is very much pregnant though she and no one around her seem to understand what that might entail. Run, fight, run, fight, run, fight, run.

There's a mythology hinted at, but the pace at which it is revealed is more frustrating than tantalizing.

I don't think I'll bother with the next volume.… (meer)