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Icarus I have no idea how long it has been since I have read Detective comics. I remember reading it shortly after Infinite Crisis when Bruce was missing and Batwoman was the lead character in this book. I think that had to be at least 5 years ago. When I saw this available on Net Galley I had to request it. Thank you to Net Galley and DC Comics for allowing me to read and review this. I always loved this series. Of course the main series Batman is my all time favorite but this was one I looked forward to every month. I even had a subscription to this so every month the new issue would be sent to my house. I miss those day and I'm not even sure they do subscriptions like that any more. The thing I liked best about this series is just how dark it is. Here is a story about a new drug about to hit the streets of Gotham that has one of the oddest side effects I have ever seen. If you overdose or just can't handle the poison then you will bust into flame from the inside

R Batman Earth One: Vol 2 Let me start by saying I know this is an alternate earth than what we are used to with Batman but there are a few things that irk me about this Batman. This is a continuation of Batman's origin story from the first volume. Bruce seems to be kind of a wimp being pushed into the whole Batman thing by his badass butler Alfred. Which brings me to my next little irk, I am not a fan of the angry violent pushy Alfred. Now that I have gotten my little issues out of the way let me tell you what I liked about this book. The writer of this book is Geoff Johns one of my favorite comic authors of all time. He didn't disappoint. This volumes has the origin story of the Riddler and Killer Croc, well maybe not "Killer" Croc. The Riddler is terrorizing Gotham with several mass murders. Is there another agenda or is he just trying to take out as many citizens as he can to raise the body count. The story was great and the art work was pretty good, but

Fallen For me, this is the book that started me on Karin Slaughter's work. It was one of my first reviews on Goodreads and looking back on that review, I spent more time talking about the giveaway I didn't win than the book. As most of you who read my blog regularly I have been trying to catch up on all the books before this I have missed. I did that and really felt sad that there was nothing else for awhile so I decided to re-read this one and I realized I didn't remember the book at all. I had forgotten everything about this so it was like reading it for the very first time.  About the book, I still really liked this book. I am going to be honest and say the thing I like most about this book is the budding relationship between Will and Sarah. Will is "Married" to his long time friend Angie, and she disappears for months at a time, sleeping with anything that moves and really doesn't seem to care about Will. So when Sarah who has had tragedy of her

Deal Breaker I have read a few books by Harlan Coben but it wasn't until the last two, Six Years , and Missing You that really got me hooked on his writing. When I saw that he had a series I figured I would give it a try. Myron Bolitar is a sports agent and the main character of this series. Now I am a huge Hockey fan but the rest of pro sports I know very little about. I wasn't sure how I was going like this but wanted to at least give this book a try.  Even though Bolitar is a fairly likable character I wasn't a fan of the slimy, sleazy world of a sports agent. Thankfully there isn't a ton of that in the book. Bolitar may be a sports agent but at the request of a client and his ex girlfriend he plays detective. I would have rather read a detective novel than this kind of story if I am being honest.  One of Bolitar's new clients has lost his fiance and of course the police are focused on the boyfriend. Turns out the ex fiance was the sister of Bolit

Moriarty I'm going to be really honest, when I first started reading this all I saw of the summary was that is was the next installment in Anthony Horowitz's Sherlock Holmes books and it was about the events after  Reichenbach Falls. I was really excited when I saw this was out and was fortunate enough to get this for Christmas. When I started reading this I kept wondering when Sherlock was going to enter this story. Well, he doesn't just to let you know in case you are like me and only read the very beginning of the summary. So if you are like me, here is the full Goodreads description, Internationally bestselling author Anthony Horowitz's nail-biting new novel plunges us back into the dark and complex world of Detective Sherlock Holmes and Professor James Moriarty--dubbed "the Napoleon of crime"--in the aftermath of their fateful struggle at the Reichenbach Falls. Days after Holmes and Moriarty disappear into the waterfall's churning depths, F

Second Chance So this book begins with a microscopic city in Batman's head that has put him in a coma. REALLY??? This seems like the dumbest story opener I've ever read. It must spin right off from Volume 2 but I don't remember anything about this. The book just opens with Batman unconscious and Superman asking Ray Palmer for help. I guess this is the only way they could guest star Ray Palmer in the book. Thankfully this is a small part of the book and it is rather short. The rest of the book seems to feel like a collection or random stories that jumped around from stories that started in the previous two volumes. This book just felt off to me. We have the god of Chaos showing up again and she wipes the memories of Superman and Batman to see what happens. The whole thing is for amusement. Superman has no morals instilled by his earth parents so it is very easy for him to be turned towards a ruthless god figure, and Batman without the pain and loss of his parents D

Broken Well, I have finally read all of Karin Slaughter's books until the new one comes out. I am excited to finally have caught up and read every thing I had felt left out on, but sad at the same time. Going through this burst of books by Karin I had a lot of fun and now it seems like the party is over. Compared to the other books this one was pretty tame on the horrible violence.  This book does start off with a suicidal girl working up her mind to plunge herself into the icy river and drown herself when someone comes up behind her and kills her. Her last thought was that she wanted to live which was one of the saddest scenes I have read. Finally she figures out that life is worth living and it is taken from her. The whole situation when the body is found looks like suicide but an autopsy reveals a stab wound to her neck which wouldn't have come from being weighted down in the bottom of the river.  All signs point to a mentally challenged boy who is arrested and ch

Graveyard Shift I can't tell you how impressed I have been with Scott Snyder's run on the Batman series. I really hope he is in this even longer because the stories are great. This book is almost a step out of the story line of Zero Year to take a breather. Snyder has done a great job of expanding on Batman's origin story while also laying foundation for Batman's story to go anywhere. This book is a collection of stories instead of one consistent story. There are some interesting moments in this book. My favorite is the Clayface story line. Clayface can change into anyone including their DNA just by touching them. This made for a great story with Bruce Wayne actually. Not a lot of Batman in this section but we get to see Bruce kick ass and take names. We also get a short little story line with special guest Superman. This one involves events that have happened recently in the Batman time line not part of Zero Year. I liked this book but I think I prefer t