Sherlock (season 3)
{5/5} “I’m not a hero, I’m a high-functioning sociopath.” Sherlock season 3, aired in 2014 Most of the world, including John Watson, thinks Sherlock Holmes is dead. But he’s not — he faked his own death and set about ridding the world of Moriarty’s network of evildoers. Now Sherlock is back in London and ready […]
Sherlock (season 2)
{5/5} “‘Do you just carry on talking when I’m away?’ ‘I don’t know, how often are you away?’” Sherlock season 2, aired in 2012 After surviving their first encounter with Moriarty, Holmes and Watson are back solving crimes. They’ve become a bit more famous, because of the blog Watson writes about their cases. They have […]
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (season 9)
{4.5/5} Buffy the Vampire Slayer season 9 (5 volumes) by Joss Whedon, Andrew Chambliss & others, published in 2012-14 Spike: A Dark Place by Victor Gischler & Paul Lee, published in 2013 Now that magic is gone from the world vampires are different — they’re mindless feral beasts. Willow goes off to find a scythe, […]
Love is All You Need
{4.5/5} “I really don’t understand why anybody will work for you. When… when you’re so awful and stupid and not nice.” Love is All You Need, released in 2012 Ida is a hairdresser who’s had cancer but is free of it at the moment — she finds out her husband is having an affair. Philip […]
Sherlock (season 1)
{5/5} “I know you’re an Army doctor, and you’ve been invalided home from Afghanistan. You’ve got a brother worried about you, but you won’t go to him for help, because you don’t approve of him, possibly because he’s an alcoholic, more likely because he recently walked out on his wife, and I know your therapist […]
Angel & Faith (season 9)
{4.5/5} Angel & Faith (5 volumes) by Christos Gage, Rebekah Isaacs & others, published in 2012-14 Willow: Wonderland by Jeff Parker, Christos Cage & Brian Ching, published in 2013 Angel and Faith are working through unfinished business that they find in Giles’ notes. Meanwhile, Angel is working on a plan to bring Giles back to […]
Star Trek: The Fall — Revelation and Dust
{4.5/5} Star Trek: The Fall — Revelation and Dust by David R. George III, published in 2013 The new Deep Space Nine is having its opening ceremony. Captain Ro is joined by Captains Sisko and Dax, as well as dignitaries including the President of the Federation. Despite all the security measures, an assassin has slipped […]
Star Trek: The Fall — The Crimson Shadow
{4.5/5} Star Trek: The Fall — The Crimson Shadow by Una McCormack, published in 2013 Mhevet, a Cardassian police officer, is not happy she’s been assigned a murder case — a Bajoran man. She’s worried about what some thugs are up to in the rough part of town, and would rather be keeping an eye […]
Planet of the Apes: Cataclysm
{4.5/5} Betrayal of the Planet of the Apes by Corinna Bechko & Gabriel Hardman, published in 2012 Exile on the Planet of the Apes by Corinna Bechko, Gabriel Hardman & Marc Laming, published in 2012 Planet of the Apes: Cataclysm (3 volumes) by Corinna Bechko, Gabriel Hardman & Damian Couceiro, published in 2013-14 This set […]
A Birder’s Guide to Everything
{4/5} A Birder’s Guide to Everything, released in 2013 David, a member of a birding club at school, thought he saw a duck that’s supposed to be extinct. So he and his friends head out to try to find it again. Meanwhile his dad is getting married, a year and a half after his mom […]