Dread Locks, by Neal Shusterman, (Dutton Children’s Books, 2005)

Fourteen-year-old Parker Baer has it all, courtesy of a rich family and indulgent parents, and as a result, he’s bored with his life. Having everything he could want, everything except actual love and tenderness, he’s eager for anything that could … Continue reading

Cities of the Fantastic: The Invisible Frontier, Volume 1, by Francois Schuiten and Benoit Peeters, (NBM Publishing, 2003)

A tangled bureaucracy. A young cartographer. The encroachment of new technologies and new ideas. A strange woman whose body is marked with lines that may represent a map of some sort. This is the world of Sodrovno-Voldachia, a land which … Continue reading