Book Review: The Bloodied Rose - Danie Ware (Black Library)

So this the first novella from the Black Library new novella series that started yesteryear.
In the Bloodied Rose we follow a group of Sororitas from the Order of the Bloody Rose. They are going back to Lautis to try to understand what happened to the world they deemed cleansed and as another group of Sororitas and a mechanicum team went missing.

We follow Sister Superior Augusta, Jatoya (2nd in command), Viola, Melia, Caia & Akemi (the newcomer) as they uncover what happened and their battle against chaos of Khorne. It was very interesting to learn about the Sororitas and their beliefs.

It was also interesting to read all those latin phrases :)

The highlight was the monologue where he compared the path of Khorne and the path of blood for the Emperor

Very interesting all in all - I have now Wreck in Ruin to read. Probably not right away but in the near future. I believe that this could have been made like Dan Abnett Space Marine novel where we get an amalgamation of short stories/novellas focusing on a chapter.

Book Review: Black Orchid (Neil Gaiman)

Black Orchid by Neil Gaiman
My rating: 3 of 10 stars

No doubt that the art is stunning and makes you feel as though you're in a dream, but the story to me was a let down. I didn't enjoy that much. Nevertheless it was good to see a comic superhero turned into a psycological adventure instead of the usual action. Quite good. It was nice to see Lex Luthor. In the end it was not my favourite comic book, and I was at a loss with the second of three chapters, and I was a bit disappointing.

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Book Review: Little Brothers (Rick Hautala)

Little Brothers by Rick Hautala
My rating: 6 of 10 stars

Well it's difficult to review this book. Some parts were quite good and others were just awfuly treated.

The main character is a 12-year-old boy called Kip who was the lone witness of his mother's death (even if he doesn't remember plainly) five years before of this story. Everyone else thinks she was killed by homeless guy. The only person who knows differently is a alcoholic indian called John Watson that the true culprits are The untcigahunk or "Little Brothers".

This book goes for about 500 pages giving some information about the daily life of the main character, is rebelious older brother, his father and a to-be-lover and a couple of other minor characters.

In my opinion this book could have been cut to 300 pages novel. One thing is for sure the development of Marty (his older brother) is the only one that I took notice. Every other character don't evolve. Even the love of Kip's father begins to blossom and at the middle of the book she just dissappears without any information and reason. Why was she in it at all?

My other problem is a the ending, or the killing of the beasts. It was too easy without any damage to the main chararacters and everyone involved.

My advice? A true horror fan.

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Book Review: The Ocean at the End of the Lane - Neil Gaiman

The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
My rating: 6 of 10 stars

This was one of the first audiobooks I read. Well it was the first full lengthened novel I read. Well sort of because this novel had around 250 pages.

First of all, Neil Gaiman is no doubt a good writer and since he wrote the novel he read the book flawlessly.

This is a story of a man who returns home to a funeral after several years and after going to a house he starts remembering his own past.

This story is a good fantasy/literature fiction. It's a story with a magic realism into it. It's a perfect book to those who veheemently say that will not read fantasy and that's not a real genre or at least accredited part of literature fiction.

I really enjoyed knowing about the unamed character has he goes through some problematic time in his life. I like the three womans (remind us of the old celtic trinity, or the phases of the moon. The Maiden, the Mother, and the Crone.

My problem with the novel was the over simplicity of all, nevertheless a good story, but not for children. Well they can read but a adult will compreehend better the links to folk tales, myths and story.

Interesting Phrase: “I’m going to tell you something important. Grown-ups don’t look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they’re big and thoughtless and they always know what they’re doing. Inside, they look just like they always have. Like they did when they were your age. The truth is, there aren’t any grown-ups. Not one, in the whole wide world.”

Advisable to all.

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2019 Anime - Best For Me

Lets talk about anime in 2019. Ah... I've watch a lot of shows.

WINTER 2019

• Tate no Yuusha no Nariagari (Kinema Citrus)
• Yakusoku no Neverland (Cloverworks)
• Mob Psycho 100 II (Bones)
• Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai: Tensai-tachi no Renai Zunousen (A-1 Pictures)
• Domestic na Kanojo (Diomedea)
• Dororo (MAPPA)
• Kakegurui×× (MAPPA)
• 5-toubun no Hanayome (Tezuka Productions)
• Doukyonin wa Hiza, Tokidoki, Atama no Ue. (Zero-G)

SPRING 2019

• Kimetsu no Yaiba (ufotable)
• Kono Oto Tomare! (Platinium Vision)
• Bokutachi wa Benkyou ga Dekinai (Arvo Animation, Silver)
• Shingeki no Kyojin Season 3 Part 2 (Wit Studio)
• One Punch Man 2nd Season (J. C. Staff)
• Senryuu Shoujo (Connect)

SUMMER 2019

• Vinland Saga (Wit Studio)
• Karakai Jouzu no Takagi-san 2 (Shin-El Animation)
• Enen no Shouboutai (David Production)
• Dr. Stone (TMS Entertainment)
• Joshikousei no Mudazukai (Passione)
• Araburu Kisetsu no Otome-domo yo. (Lay-duce)

FALL 2019

• Shinchou Yuusha: Kono Yuusha ga Ore Tueee Kuse ni Shinchou Sugiru (White Fox)
• High Score Girl II (J. C. Staff)
• Ore wo Suki nano wa Omae dake ka yo (Connect)
• Beastars (Orange)
• Bokutachi wa Benkyou ga Dekinai! (Arvo Animation Silver)
• Chihayafuru 3 (Madhouse)
• Kono Oto Tomare! 2nd Season (Platinium Vision)

So all in all these are my top for each season. 
Top 10

1. - Karakai Jouzu no Takagi-san 2 (Comedy, Romance, School, Shounen, Slice of Life)
2. - Vinland Saga  (Action, Adventure, Historical, Drama, Seinen)
3. - High Score Girl II  (Game, Comedy, Romance, School, Seinen)
4. - Kono Oto Tomare! (Drama, Music, Romance, School, Shounen)
5. - Kimetsu no Yaiba (Action, Demons, Historical, Shounen, Supernatural)
6. - Bokutachi wa Benkyou ga Dekinai! (Comedy, Harem, Romance, School, Shounen)
7. - 5-toubun no Hanayome (Harem, Comedy, Romance, School, Shounen) 
8. - Shingeki no Kyojin Season 3 Part 2 (Action, Drama, Fantasy, Military, Mystery, Shounen, Super Power)
9. - Doukyonin wa Hiza, Tokidoki, Atama no Ue. (Slice of Life, Comedy)
10. - Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai: Tensai-tachi no Renai Zunousen (Comedy, Psychological, Romance, School, Seinen)

Honorable Mentions

• Yakusoku no Neverland
• Tate no Yuusha no Nariagari

It seems, not to anyone doubt, that my favorite genre is romance. 6 of 10. Action 3 of 10. True be told all of them are Shounen or Seinen.

Book Review: The Deadliest Strain (Jan Coffey) 2007

What a crappy book. I thought this was some-kind of post apocalyptic fiction but instead it was a romance mixed with Kurdistan propaganda.

It was bad in every way. The plot was crappy at best. So basically there is some-kind of virus that kills very quickly and jumps pretty quickly between persons. There is not a hint of how it happens but a person which is behind bars for a lot of time might help). Thus enter our main protagonist that in a couple of minutes already makes her talk when in the previous 5 years she said no word. Then he discovers pretty quickly that she wasn't the person who they thought she was. What a crap.

From this moment on it begins a romance and he totally believe hers (5m of knowing her) which her colleagues and agency say that she was the maker of some chemicals weapons... how this guy works for the agency? How gully is he?

Then for 200 pages we receive chapter after chapter some people in the usa who are dying or some government guy being useless OR the travel of the lovebirds searching for her sister to save USA! USA! USA!

In the end, it really doesn't matter because she and her sister and he don't do anything at all and all is save accidently - a bit deus ex machina . CRAPPY

What I learn from this book? Trust everyone even if everyone and everything points that he/she is a mass murderer. USA as a bunch of useless government people; Kurdistan people are victims , Iraqi are murderers and everyone else for that matters. I learn quite a lot.

Crappy useless time

Book Review: The Wicked and the Damned (Anthology) 2019

This is a compilation of three horror stories. The first deals with a commissar and the horrors of the a trench war where lack of communication between HQ and the real fighting man in the thick of it can result of something strange. Spoiler alert...

Yeah the enemy army was vanquished and that comissar and army were still fighting their allies due to lack of communication... Pretty interesting. Good character driven tale.

The second story has less horror right until the end. A military woman will do anything to rise up even by unconventional means. A interesting mystery tale while the last 15 or 20 pages turn into horror.

The last story and to me the weakest is about a priest and faith while mixing with romance give bad choices. More horroresque than the previous. A bit of lovecraftian horror with the changer of ways or to friends know as Tché.

Overall there is a intermix story connecting them all but felt flat because the premises was someone was hiding something but of course was the last story that connect the dots...

Overall good but to me failed in horror department and mystery. 

Book Review: Drop Dead Gorgeous (Wayne Simmons) 2008

Suffice to say I didn't enjoy the book.
Why do you ask?
Well probably because it has some deep flaws.

Our story begins with people dying as we follow a dozen characters lives and how they cope with it. Some were interesting and some were really flat - cardboard. Then some band together others stood alone. We follow every couple of pages about their daily lives (very succinct in my opinion) and how they develop.

There is no explanation on why people fell dead (only in the last two pages we learn of a theory), interesting people are rotting away (not all bodies, women are not - as I said we never learn why).

This book also has some commentary like the republican Irish gal and the British soldier type - of course they hate each other but then try to cope and so on.

The problem is that the book has only 290 pages and so with the setup we are left 50 or so pages to some action, explanation and conclusion - unfortunately it didn't satisfy me. I've seen and read better zombie flicks. I don't want to know why zombies appear (it really doesn't matter in most media) but why only women? He tries to give some explanation but its so far fetch it's really anticlimactic.

The ending is crap... yeah woman are sick of men so they turn into a zombie and kill people who wrong them - so why not the men? So why some women died and other no? Bah
Sorry...

I've heard there is a second book but I will not get it nor read it. Sorry.

Book Review: Maledictions (Anthology) 2019 Black Library

I don't know if I will make a full length review but I must tell you that there were good stories and some that were not that good. One of two were pretty out there that could be easily be printed in another universe.

Per example C L Werner story I really couldn't connect to the Sigmar universe. IT could be easily set in his own Japanese universe (he has some stories in it). The mention of nagash by the end tied it but...

The Nothings I Thought the story was set in the sigmar universe then it made a twist and it was set in the 40K. And it was pretty good by the end.

Nepenthe was a good story -not particularly scary but good nevertheless.

Predation Eagle could have been so good if it had a hundred pages. Unfortunately there wasn't enough time to get to know the characters.

The Last Ascension of Dominic Seroff was another good 40K story and as the previously could have been even better with more 30 or 40 pages.

Triggers was okay.

The Marauder's Lives was probably the most horroresque of them all.

The widow tide was not that good - we all know racism is bad.

Overall a nice collection of stories. Didn't thought they were that scary or horror but nevertheless they were good. Looking forward to read more horror from Black Library.

Next read will be probably The Wicked and the Damned. Hope it's better after all there are only three stories so 100 pages to truly envelop us.

@Black Library there were some themes there like racism (particulary in The Widows Tide) and such. Please don't follow the SJW and PC tread. You've always tackle some social issues like masters but not shoving down our throats. Nobody likes that.

Book Review: Midnight's Lair (Richard Laymon) 1988

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Book Review: The House of Night and Chain (David Annandale) 2019 - Black Library

So here we have a new novel in the growing horror tales coming out from Black Library.
First of all, like some previous takes I would say that with only a couple of changes this could be set in any other world. To be that's a minus star. I want to read Horror stories set in the 40K (or Sigmar).

This novel was written by an nowadays prolific writers in the Black Library universe called David Annandale. I've read the Yarrick novels, Mephiston & The Last Wall (one book from the ten magnus opus War of the Beast).

In this story we follow Colonel Strock who is returning home, after almost 30 years serving the Imperium, to save his world from corruption, at the behest of the Inquisition. He was discharged after a long phyrric battle in a far way world. He is returning to his world where is family rule. His late wife had died some years prior and the two children still live (now around 30 years).

From this moment on, and most of the book, it's about Strock dealing with the various factions in the world including the main antagonist (which supposedly is corrupting the world); his two childhood friends and his own children.

Every few chapters we get some snippets about his wife demise and we get to know that the main protagonist of the story it's not Strock at all but the House.

This is something I've read somewhere. Maybe Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher? That really doesn't upset me or so (don't get me wrong). But the ending felt a bit rushed and we get the glimpse of what's happening after all. There were some questions in air but overall it felt rushed.

As i said, apart from some names - Inquisition; Enforcer; Ecclesiarchy and other random names this could have been in any other world. I wished for more 40K elements (view spoiler)

Either way it's not a bad story but it's not the best from him. Maybe Black Library wants to make this kind of novels more avaiable to other people who don't usually read 40K novels? I bet this is it because of all reviews here in goodreads of people who never dwelt on it.

Let's hope C L Werner Castle of Blood it's better. I am reading it next (probably).

Anime Review: Fall 2019 - What I am Watching (Midterm)

Well, this season is not the weakest of all but also it's not the best but you've got some pretty good TV series.

Lets continue my logic of the beginning of the season...
💓 New Favorite (Like top 10 or something)
😍 Love IT (1)
😎 Solid (2)
😑 Good (3)
😴 Meh  (4)
😓 Disappointing (4)
😰 Bad (5)
😱 What a Garbage


Sequels Realm I will be Watching
Ani ni Tsukeru Kusuri wa Nai! 3 - Good as always. Nothing too extraordinary. A 5m comedy act. 7/10
Boku no Hero Academia 4th Season - Not as good as previous seasons to be honest  😢 5/10
Bokutachi wa Benkyou ga Dekinai 2 - Not as good as previous but it's solid 😎  Wish it develop faster.
Chihayafuru 3 - Haven't see it yet - Waiting for more episodes to binge. But for what I see it's as good as previous seasons.
Fairy Gone 2nd Season So bad I had to drop. It's from one my favorite studios but everyone has bad anime 3/10 😓 
Granblue Fantasy The Animation Season 2 - Not as good as  previous season Meh season. I won't drop but it's not as good. 5/10 😴 
High Score Girl II - As good as previous season. Even better. More development in romance but less in games. 9/10 😍
Kono Oto Tomare! 2nd Season As good as previous season. Love it 8/10 😍 
Nanatsu no Taizai: Kamigami no Gekirin It's even worse that last season. But I will watch it. 😓  4/10
Psycho-Pass 3 - Still finish season 2. Lets hope it stays better.
Sword Art Online: Alicization - War of Underworld Equal to last season. Not the best series but good. 5/10 😴

Sequels I will not be Watching
Fate/Grand Order: Zettai Majuu Sensen Babylonia (Never watch the first one.... later)
Phantasy Star Online 2: Episode Oracle - Skip
Radiant 2nd Season Skip
Shokugeki no Souma: Shin no Sara Skip
Z/X: Code Reunion Skip
Zoids Wild Zero Skip

High Hopes
Babylon - Really good to be honest. Very solid 😎 
Choujin Koukousei-tachi wa Isekai demo Yoyuu de Ikinuku you desu! - Okay show. Nothing that great. 5/10
Houkago Saikoro Club Okay show. Nothing that great. 5/10
No Guns Life - Gave up. 😰 
Rifle Is Beautiful Gave up. 😰 

Animes I am going to Try
Africa no Salaryman (TV) Gave up. 😱 
Ahiru no Sora - Really good. I was really wrong there. 8/10
Assassins Pride  Interesting but nothing too spectacular 4/10
Azur Lane Gave up. 😱 
Beastars Really good. I was really wrong there. 8/10
Chuubyou Gekihatsu Boy Gave up. 😱 
Hataage! Kemono Michi Solid but passable 4/10
Honzuki no Gekokujou: Shisho ni Naru Tame ni wa Shudan wo Erandeiraremasen okay show
Hoshiai no Sora Really good. I was really wrong there. 8/10
Kabukichou Sherlock Solid but passable 4/10
Kandagawa Jet Girls Boobs everywhere 5/10
Keishichou Tokumubu Tokushu Kyouakuhan Taisakushitsu Dainanaka: Tokunana Gave up. 😱 
Mairimashita! Iruma-kun Solid but passable 4/10
Null Peta Nothing worthy acknowledge 3/10
Ore wo Suki nano wa Omae dake ka yo Very very wrong about this. Love it. 😍
Pet didn't even try
Shin Chuuka Ichiban! Gave up. 😱 
Shinchou Yuusha: Kono Yuusha ga Ore Tueee Kuse ni Shinchou Sugiru good isekai to be honest 7/10
Stand My Heroes: Piece of Truth Gave up. 😱 
Tenka Hyakken: Meiji-kan e Youkoso! Bad but 5m long
Val x Love  Another boobs show. But better than jet.
Watashi, Nouryoku wa Heikinchi de tte Itta yo ne! Gave up. 😱 
XL Joushi. Hentai

Animes I am going to Skip
Actors: Songs Connection Gave up. 😱 
Aikatsu on Parade! Gave up. 😱 
Urashimasakatasen no Nichijou Gave up. 😱 

So overall you've got only a couple of really good shows. The rest are just average and skippable. Those animes you will never hear again after a couple seasons.

TV Shows: Evil & The Twilight Zone (2019)

Why can't they learn people do not want more political programs?

Evil - The show is great but throwing politics into ruin it. First on the second episode where racism is after all the reason giving a very weak end. Then in the seventh the all white incel supremacist who hate woman. Pure crap. Stop throwing politics. The show itself is solid. Why this crap? Only white males are incel? No black - really? And female incels?? There aren't? Of course. White males are the problem of society for this show. A black male, white woman and Muslim guy are of course perfect characters... With the exception of she betraying her husband - all of them turning their back about two parents killing a child and in the seventh ep of course the woman was nt to blame - the white cis man was. One more ep and if more sjw crap appears i am off. Before criticizing tell me a good white male in this show? ONE.Good solid show ruined by politics and sjw

The Twilight Zone in the first episode went the same way. We don't care about politics - even the main character learn that from another character YET politics it is. White is bad - Blacks are Good. Man are toxic. Woman are always great. CRAP. If you don't believe watch episode 5. Even crappier. I am really really hating this trend...