Nice Dragons Finish Last
RECOMMENDED: Nice Dragons Finish Last by Rachel Aaron is $1.99! This was mentioned on a previous podcast and a previous Whatcha Reading. The second book, One Good Dragon Deserves Another, is also on sale! Sarah loved this book:
Nice Dragons Finish Last is fast-moving fantasy adventure with outstanding worldbuilding. It’s an experience to read.
As the smallest dragon in the Heartstriker clan, Julius survives by a simple code: keep quiet, don’t cause trouble, and stay out of the way of bigger dragons. But this meek behavior doesn’t fly in a family of ambitious magical predators, and his mother, Bethesda the Heartstriker, has finally reached the end of her patience.
Now, sealed in human form and banished to the DFZ–a vertical metropolis built on the ruins of Old Detroit–Julius has one month to prove that he can be a ruthless dragon or kiss his true shape goodbye forever. But in a city of modern mages and vengeful spirits where dragons are considered monsters to be exterminated, he’s going to need some serious help to survive this test.
He only hopes humans are more trustworthy than dragons…
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Forget Tomorrow by Pintip Dunn is 99c! This recently won the 2016 RITA® Award for Best First Book. However, we didn’t receive a RITA® Reader Challenge review for it, but you’re welcome to look at the aggregated Goodreads reviews we put together. Overall, some felt the pacing was slow, but the plot was unique. It’s also young adult with a 3.7-star rating on Goodreads.
Imagine a world where your destiny has already been decided…by your future self.
It’s Callie’s seventeenth birthday and, like everyone else, she’s eagerly awaiting her vision—a memory sent back in time to sculpt each citizen into the person they’re meant to be. A world-class swimmer. A renowned scientist.
Or in Callie’s case, a criminal.
In her vision, she sees herself murdering her gifted younger sister. Before she can process what it means, Callie is arrested and placed in prison. The only person who can help is her childhood crush, Logan, a boy she hasn’t spoken to in five years.
Logan breaks her free, but can she trust him? He’s almost the same boy she remembers, but now he’s a whole lot hotter. And he’s got his own past to deal with. Callie’s falling for him, fast, but she soon learns he has secrets of his own. Secrets that mean they can never be together.
Now, Callie’s on the run not only from the government, but also from her fate. If she wants any hope of a future with Logan, she must first find a way to protect her sister from the biggest threat of all—herself.
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The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald is $2.99! Sarah picked this for January’s Hide Your Wallet, saying, “Swedish pen pal goes to Iowa, starts bookshop. I keep hearing about this book in very disparate places.” Other readers said the book does a great job of creating a sense of place. However, some felt there was a lot of repetition in the book and the interactions felt forced. Have you read this?
This is a book about books. All sorts of books, from Little Women and Harry Potter to Jodi Picoult and Jane Austen, from to Stieg Larsson to Joyce Carol Oates to Proust. It’s about the joy and pleasure of books, about learning from and escaping into them, and possibly even hiding behind them. It’s about whether or not books are better than real life.
It’s also a book about a Swedish girl called Sara, her elderly American penfriend Amy and what happens when you land a very different kind of bookshop in the middle of a town so broken it’s almost beyond repair.
Or is it?
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Thor Vol. 1: The Goddess of Thunder is $3.99 at Amazon and Comixology! This volume contains issues 1-5. Some readers thought the events in this volume were a bit ridiculous, while others thought it was a whole lot of fun! It has a 4.1-star rating on Goodreads. Any fans of the goddess Thor in the Bitchery?
Mjolnir lies on the moon, unable to be lifted! Something dark has befallen the God of Thunder, leaving him unworthy for the first time ever! But when Frost Giants invade Earth, the hammer will be lifted – and a mysterious woman will be transformed into an all-new version of the mighty Thor! Who is this new Goddess of Thunder? Not even Odin knows…but she may be Earth’s only hope against the Frost Giants! Get ready for a Thor like you’ve never seen before, as this all-new heroine takes Midgard by storm! Plus: the Odinson clearly doesn’t like that someone else is holding his hammer…it’s Thor vs. Thor! And Odin, desperate to see Mjolnir returned, will call on some very dangerous, very unexpected allies. It’s a bold new chapter in the storied history of Thor!
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Sorry, but Thor is a man (okay, a god but a male one)! I’m a staunch feminist from way back and I’m definitely okay with reimagining things such as Ghostbusters, but Thor should be left alone. This is just wrong. Let someone else be in charge of thunder but with a different name! Strong female characters are great but, Marvel, you didn’t invent Thor and you really shouldn’t make this change. Use Green Lantern or somebody you did invent instead if you want to gender-swap.
Karen: why is Thor off limits for you? I’m genuinely asking.
Marvel didn’t invent Green Lantern. He’s a DC property.
My very geeky 9 year old daughter would never have forgiven me if I had passed that one by.
On that note, I showed her that Thor: Goddess of Thunder is on sale and she promptly turned her huge blue eyes on me and asked if she could read it. Yes, baby, yes you can.
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For me, (and I haven’t read it yet, though at this price I might, and maybe they make it work), “Thor” isn’t a title, it’s a person (or entity or being or whatever) and no one else is. If someone else (or many other people) gets his title, possessions, powers, even personality traits and name – that’s fine. But that doesn’t make them Thor, it makes them whoever they are, God(dess) of Thunder who can control thunder, wield Mjolnir, &tc. You can become very, very much like another person, but you can’t become another person.
I don’t think I have a reaction at all to someone taking over for Thor (of whatever gender or race), or of a whole reboot where Thor was always a woman, or of Thor changing in some way. But there’s something slightly bothering me about someone turning into Thor. Again, they might handle it in the comic. Which I should probably read.
I tend to think of comic superheroes as separate from folklore. So I have no problem with Thor being female. The character is more of an alien than a god in my mind. But I also have no problem with gender/race swaps for fictional characters. I’m also pretty ok with it for historical fiction based on real-life people(like in the Hamilton musical).
It sounds like this could be like when The Doctor changes in Doctor Who. But the Thor vs Thor has me intrigued. Guess I’ll have to grab it!
I’ve read the first two Goddess of Thunder collections, and I was kind of meh about them. Some of the art is pretty cool, but I thought the story was just so-so. And I don’t like the old-timey font and speech that they use for the Asgardians. I think it’s a little hard to read on some of the panels.
I’m okay with other people becoming various classic superheroes, but I would also like to see more original characters as well, like Squirrel Girl.
If you are interested in Goddess of Thunder, you might want to check out Angela: Asgard’s Assassin. I thought her character was much more interesting. (Although don’t get me started about the weird, oversize belt that she wears and the ribbon things that stream out of her body for no apparent reason.)
There’s also a fun, but silly story with MODOK going to kill either Angela or a female Thor (I can’t remember which one) but falling in love with her instead.
SB Sarah: I don’t know how to reply underneath your question (and I only get to look at this once an evening after work so that’s why it’s late) but the reason is that Thor is a Norse god and I’m enough of a pagan that I sort of believe. I wouldn’t like any of the Greek or Roman gods or anybody else’s theology messed with that way. I understand what some of you are saying that you can separate the god of a very real religion from a comic book character, but Thor has always been my favorite so he’s really special to me and he’s a he.
Crystal: Darn! I took a quick look at Google to confirm GL was a Marvel hero before I typed it but I guess I asked in the wrong way so now I’m really upset! My point, however, is still the same, but thanks for the correction.