Manga Review: So Cute It Hurts Volume 2 by Go Ikeyamada Recapping from Volume 1: Megumu and Mitsuru Kobayashi, fraternal twins, have been impersonating each other at their respective schools in an effort to get Mitsuru to not fail history. As a side effect, each of the twins has fallen in love with someone at… Continue reading Manga Review: So Cute It Hurts Volume 2
Tag: Young adult
Book Review: Birthright: Book 1 of the Temujin Saga
Book Review: Birthright: Book 1 of the Temujin Saga by Adam J. Whitlatch Temujin has always known he is special. He is, after all, the clone restoration of Genghis Khan, endowed with strange alien powers and destined to conquer the Earth. It is his birthright. Alexander Walker has never even suspected he is special. He’s… Continue reading Book Review: Birthright: Book 1 of the Temujin Saga
Book Review: Boy Scouts of the Air on the French Front
Book Review: Boy Scouts of the Air on the French Front by Gordon Stuart Tod Fulton’s father is an inventor who has developed a new airplane that can hover in place and has true VTOL (vertical takeoff and landing) capabilities. Up to now, he wasn’t able to sell it as there were no peacetime applications.… Continue reading Book Review: Boy Scouts of the Air on the French Front
Book Review: Springboard to Tokyo
Book Review: Springboard to Tokyo by Canfield Cook Squadron Leader Robert “Lucky” Terrell has at last gotten his small group of RAF Stratohawk fighter-bombers to China. There’s a small problem–the Japanese launched a major offensive while our heroes were enroute, and the airfields they were planning to use have been overrun. Only one badly… Continue reading Book Review: Springboard to Tokyo
Manga Review: UQ Holder! Vol. 1
Manga Review: UQ Holder! Vol. 1 by Ken Akamatsu It is a couple of generations into the future, and both reasonably-priced space travel and techno-magic have come into existence. Large swaths of Earth’s population has gone to space, with the remaining people either enjoying life in small country villages or struggling in the remaining big… Continue reading Manga Review: UQ Holder! Vol. 1
Book Review: War Wings
Book Review: War Wings by Eustace L. Adams Jimmy Deal and his squadron are Navy flyers assigned to Souilly-sur-Mer, near the Belgian border and some heavy fighting in World War One. Ensign Deal was a Reservist before the Great War, and many regular officers resent him. Good thing he’s one of the best seaplane aces… Continue reading Book Review: War Wings
Book Review: Red Randall on Active Duty
Book Review: Red Randall on Active Duty by R. Sidney Bowen Red Randall and his buddy Jimmy Joyce have completed their flight training and been assigned to a base in Darwin, Australia. They’re looking forward to getting some revenge against the Japanese for Pearl Harbor, but there’s not much excitement at the moment. Until suddenly… Continue reading Book Review: Red Randall on Active Duty
Book Review: Average
Book Review: Average by J.C. Thompson Quin is just your average boy, not particularly good at anything, getting by okay in school, nursing a huge crush on a girl who doesn’t seem to notice he exists…his father, on the other hand, is Ultrarian, one of the world’s most powerful superheroes. Ultrarian doesn’t seem to quite… Continue reading Book Review: Average
Book Review: Billy Smith Shanghaied Ace
Book Review: Billy Smith Shanghaied Ace by Noël Sainsbury, Jr. William “Billy” Smith, noted teen aviator, has been called to Australia by a wealthy banker, Mr. Clafflin whose daughter Janet was on the missing passenger liner GLORIA (sic). The banker believes that the ship was not sunk, but is stranded off course somewhere in the… Continue reading Book Review: Billy Smith Shanghaied Ace
Book Review: Double Jump
Book Review: Double Jump by Jason Glaser Jeremy Chin didn’t notice anything odd about his world until the day it was destroyed by a sparkling dust dumped from an airship. He dives into a swimming pool, and blacks out. When he awakens in a hospital, Jeremy appears to be in a different world altogether. He’s… Continue reading Book Review: Double Jump