Find out what I recommend in Adult Sci-Fi & Fantasy in Summer 2016

My newest piece on Girls in Capes is a recommendation list of this summer’s most anticipated adult science fiction and fantasy for GiC readers. I have a notoriously tall To Be Read pile. If you look at my Goodreads account, you’ll see that I consistently have 10 or more books shelved in Currently Reading, andContinue reading “Find out what I recommend in Adult Sci-Fi & Fantasy in Summer 2016”

New review at Girls in Capes: Akuma no Riddle, Vol. 1

New review up at Girls in Capes: The best way to describe this manga is a schoolgirl assassination action manga with undertones of yuri romance. Tokaku is a star student at her original school of assassins, presented in the prologue as totally cold. Yet the warmth of a girl like Haru, who wasn’t raised toContinue reading “New review at Girls in Capes: Akuma no Riddle, Vol. 1”

New review at Girls in Capes: Love at Fourteen, Vol. 5

I have a new manga review up at Girls in Capes! As with previous volumes, Kanata and Kazuki’s relationship is still precious and the absolute best thing about the manga. At one point, Kazuki faces attempted humiliation at the hands of a girl who has a crush on Kanata, but he faces that potentially mortifyingContinue reading “New review at Girls in Capes: Love at Fourteen, Vol. 5”

New Editor’s Letter at Girls in Capes – The Womanhood Issue

In this month’s editor’s letter, I discuss something very, very personal to me: how I started to realize that my childhood was over. It would be very difficult to pinpoint the moment at which I truly felt as if I’d become a woman. Three years, after all, feels like a short amount of time betweenContinue reading “New Editor’s Letter at Girls in Capes – The Womanhood Issue”

New review at Girls in Capes: Monthly Girls’ Nozaki-kun, Vol. 1

This month, I was excited to review the first volume of manga in one of my favorite franchises: Monthly Girls’ Nozaki-kun. Readers or viewers familiar with manga tropes will definitely recognize the characters by visual cues — Mikoshiba is a very typical shoujo manga bad-boy, and Kashima is a very typical shoujo manga “princely girl”Continue reading “New review at Girls in Capes: Monthly Girls’ Nozaki-kun, Vol. 1”