Meet seventeen-year-old Emily Hunte, a teenager living in America during the Great War on Technology. When the attacks in Chicago start, her older sister and trained soldier, Amber smuggles her into a survivalist compound in the wilderness of Alaska—one of the few safe places left in the world. To survive in this cutthroat community, Emily has to take on the . . .
The Australian suburb of South Hertling has known its share of misfortunes—supervillain attacks, unexpected time rifts, attempted robot uprisings and crashed spaceships, to name but a few. But finally the suburb has some good news! It is opening day of a new attraction in which for the first time ever, the public can see extinct creatures in captivity—Trilobite . . .
Years ago magic entered our modern world and changed everything. Twenty years later, the world has Access Facilities to help budding magic users and the MDE to help manage, police, and control magic. Raven Delias is a normal teenage girl who is getting her Core magic awakened like everyone her age. She just wants to get into a good school . . .
Hui Yue had a pleasant life. He was gifted with good looks, a shrewd personality and athletic abilities far above the norm. Every student at his university would call him perfect, however Hui Yue himself knew that the one thing he wanted the most was the one thing he could not have, his childhood friend from his previous life, Li . . .
Peter Wright was an ordinary guy, living a mediocre life, but fate had other plans. Peter finds himself in a parallel world with nothing to his name but a wholly unimaginable power he needs to figure out how to use. Now Peter Wright steps forth to unravel what is his destiny, as Fayde of the Void. . . .
I’m rich! Gahahahaha! Wait . . . . Noooooooo. I’m eating it? Someone stop me, for once in my life I am considered a billionaire but now I have to resort to eating gold for dessert or my scales will become dull and weak. Sigh . . . .The woes of being a dragon. Especially when I can’t just leisurely spend it on my own whims anymore. Sob. . . .
The secret war between the Slayers and Mythics is secret no longer. Porter the Slayer and Sarah the sphinx have, through their unlikely love, become the bridge between the human and Mythic races, and together they hope they can find a way to end the fighting without one side destroying the other. With incriminating evidence against the Master Slayer, Drake . . .
Rema: a distant world of magic and beauty where the gods are slowly dying. The City of Water is held hostage as greed becomes the standard and a race of elemental demigods are suppressed for their powers. It would seem all is lost if not for the chance estrangement of a singular Earthling girl. Her search for answers surrounding . . .
Seekers are those who seek immortality. They cultivate the mind and body, growing ever stronger by absorbing energy from the world. When two powerful Seekers decide to play a game, it’s the unlucky mortals they pick as players that will suffer. Graham is one such player, plucked from his normal life like a feather from a chicken. Will he . . .
What if every magical creature you’d ever heard of was real, driven into hiding by an army of violent zealots? This is reality for Sarah Heisen and Porter Collins. Sarah is a sphinx living a life of luxury in her family’s mansion. Hidden from all danger, but shut off from the world, she wants nothing more than to escape. Porter . . .
Tila Leo woke up in an unfamiliar setting where her life is thrown upside down. She is cast into the future in a body that she never expected to ever believed even existed: a werewolf body. From this new life, she is given things that she never expected to get. An annoying werewolf spirit that constantly annoys her, and a . . .
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Jan 20, 2013: The Good: Great pacing, evocative descriptions, well-drawn primary characters
The Bad: Some minor detail quibbles (secondary characters, minor plot points, clothing descriptions, I’m being nit-picky)
The Lowdown: Rema recently appeared on the front page new listings, and, heck, I’m always up for a good fantasy story, especially one with a younger protagonist. I was rather wary of how Kibuishi would end up handling the "drawn into another world" trope—but honestly, after the [more . . .]