Dragons went extinct two hundred years ago on the islands of May, so when Tansy and her father find dragon’s bane blooming – which only occurs when a dragon is about – no one imagines that a dragon is on the loose. This is no sentimental modern dragon, but rather a medieval-style baby-devouring beast, and…
Soppy: A Love Story is a cute, snapshot-style look into the lives of a young British couple. With no overarching narrative, its goal is to capture the little everyday moments of being in love. It can be a little cheesy, but with “soppy” (UK slang for sentimental) right in the title, you can’t claim not…
I know what you’re thinking – Superman and Wonder Woman? Where’s Lois Lane? Well, this graphic novel is set in the new alternate DC Comics universe, and Lois doesn’t seem to be around. Instead, the Man of Steel is dating the Amazing Amazon, and in my opinion, it’s a great match. In this collection of…
As nearly every romance reader knows, Jane Eyre is the story of a young woman who is mistreated by her relatives, attends a dire school, becomes a governess, falls for the master of the house, has to leave when a marriage obstacle is discovered, and eventually finds her way back to the man she loves….
There are a lot of graphic novel adaptations out there for Jane Austen novels. This latest venture, done in the visual style of manga, is by far the most successful I’ve read. It captures Austen’s dry humor, making me laugh out loud several times. The hefty page count (triple the length of the Marvel adaptation)…
The Story of Life on the Golden Fields manhwa, or Korean graphic novel, trilogy transports you to pre-modern Korea for two lyrical, sensual love stories. In the first book, The Color of Earth , a young girl named Ehwa grows from child to young teen and experiences her first crushes, and her unnamed mother falls…
Brilliant in piano and violin, Chiaki Shinichi aspires to be a conductor, but his career will be limited as long as his fear of travel traps him in Japan. After he breaks with his professor and his girlfriend on the same night, he gets drunk and wakes up in the squalid apartment of his next-door…
Let’s brainstorm reasons you could forgive a hero who spends most of the book planning to murder the heroine. 1) The hero is a time traveler and knows the heroine will murder someone else. 2) There is a hostage. 3) The heroine is Hitler in drag. In The Undertaking of Lily Chen, the hero is…
Kaya Satozuka becomes the secretary for Kyouhei Tohma, a director at Tohma Corp and a secret vampire. Kaya’s competence wins her the secretary gig, but it’s her strangely delicious blood that makes Kyouhei fixate on her. Since blood becomes more delicious when a woman is aroused (convenient!), she’s soon his lover as well as his…
The plot premise of Tramps Like Us – a career woman adopts a homeless younger man as a pet – is farfetched. But just make your peace with it and read on, because this manga is captivating. It will shatter your stereotypes of graphic novels as only for YA or male audiences. Tramps Like Us…