The Whisper of Leaves
10 best books like The Whisper of Leaves (K.S. Nikakis): The Calculating Stars, Sunshine, Food Wars!, Vol. 1, Franz Kafka's The Castle (Dramatization), The Drifter, Death Note: L, Change the WorLd, Balanced on the Blade's Edge, RWBY, Ubel Blatt, Vol. 1, Dragon Half Omnibus, Vol. 2
| Author | Mary Robinette Kowal |
| ISBN | 0765378388 |
On a cold spring night in 1952, a huge meteorite fell to earth and obliterated much of the east coast of the United States, including Washington D.C. The ensuing climate cataclysm will soon render the earth inhospitable for humanity, as the last such meteorite did for the dinosaurs. This looming threat...
| Author | Robin McKinley |
| ISBN | 0515138819 |
Okay, so I seriously pondered over whether to give this book three stars or four. In the end, I DID enjoy it so I felt generous and gave it four, but it's not without its faults.
Once, when I was a little kid, my parents bought me my favourite ice cream. There's actually only one kind of ice cream that...
Soma Yukihira's old man runs a small family restaurant in the less savory end of town. Aiming to one day surpass his father's culinary prowess, Soma hones his skills day in and day out until one day, out of the blue, his father decides to enroll Soma in a classy culinary school! Can Soma really cut it...
Franz Kafka's The Castle (Dramatization)
There is a lot of talk about Kafka and nightmares – and with good reason. However, his nightmares are never quite what you might expect - expectations are always a problem when reading Kafka, firsst they get in the way and then they get dashed. In Metamorphosis there is the ‘yuck’ factor of the main...
| Author | Nick Petrie |
| ISBN | 0399174567 |
An explosive thriller debut introducing Peter Ash, a veteran who finds that the demons of war aren't easily left behind...
Peter Ash came home from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan with only one souvenir: what he calls his "white static," the buzzing claustrophobia due to post-traumatic stress...
Death Note: L, Change the WorLd
I thought it was an excellent 'what-if' addition to the Death Note universe. I never saw the movie, so everything in the book was a complete surprise to me, and it certainly didn't disappoint.
I like that L, while still undeniably L, takes more of an action stance in this book. His interactions with...
Balanced on the Blade's Edge
| Author | Lindsay Buroker |
| ISBN | 1310222371 |
Colonel Ridge Zirkander isn't the model of military professionalism - he has a tendency to say exactly what’s on his mind, and his record has enough demerits to wallpaper the hull of an airship - but as the best fighter pilot in the Iskandian army, he’s used to a little leniency from his superiors....
| Author | Shirow Miwa |
| ISBN | 1421595125 |
In adventures based on Rooster Teeth’s hit animation series, Ruby, Weiss, Blake and Yang are students at Beacon Academy, learning to protect the world from the fearsome Grimm.
When the people of Remnant aren't fighting monsters, they still find conflict among themselves. Now they are...
| Author | Etorouji Shiono |
| ISBN | 0316380482 |
This is the first volume in the Ubel Blatt series and I liked it better than Vol 0. The illustration is decent, not amazing, but well done. The story is epic fantasy in nature.
My biggest complaint about this series so far is the sheer number of characters that are thrown at the reader right...
Dragon Half Omnibus, Vol. 2
| Author | Ryūsuke Mita |
| ISBN | 1626927324 |
The quest continues!
Reading the first volume of this series brought back some silly nostalgia from the pages of Dragon Magazine (which I loved to collect) even though some of the humor had to be updated to today's standards. For some reason when reading volume 2 however I just did not enjoy it...
Hiro Mashima's Playground
Hiro Mashima's Playground manga features a new collection of short stories by Hiro Mashima, the creator of Fairy Tail and Rave Master! Read some of Mashima’s never-before-seen debut stories, including the first appearance of the Fairy Tail guild!
Hiro Mashima is known worldwide as the...
The Tarot Cafe Manga Collection: Volume 2
| Author | Sang-Sun Park |
| ISBN | 1427859345 |
Meet Pamela, a tarot card reader who helps supernatural beings living in the human world. She'll help anyone, whether they're a love-stricken cat, a vampire spending eternal life running from his one true love, an unattractive waitress looking for the man of her dreams, or even a magician who creates...
Dragon Half Omnibus Vol. 3
| Author | Ryūsuke Mita |
| ISBN | 1626928576 |
Mink and her dysfunctional friends are approaching the end of their quest. The final confrontation with Demon Lord Azetodeth looms large, but first they’ll have to get past his (mostly) nefarious sons! Can they rescue their parents? Can Mink get a date? And just what is the secret of Damaramu’s...
Dragon Half Omnibus, Vol. 1
| Author | Ryūsuke Mita |
| ISBN | 1626926166 |
Dragon Half is rated Teen but it does have some slightly mature themes like a rumor has it dragon half girls have teeth lining down there, minor breast shots, a little attempted tentacle play, some literal potty humor, and at least two open bath scenes that lets your imagination do the work your eyes can't...
The Tarot Cafe Manga Collection: Volume 1
| Author | Sang-Sun Park |
| ISBN | 1427859337 |
Meet Pamela, a tarot card reader who helps supernatural beings living in the human world. She'll help anyone, whether they're a love-stricken cat, a vampire spending eternal life running from his one true love, an unattractive waitress looking for the man of her dreams, or even a magician who creates...
The Book of Secrets (Seventh Realm, #1)
| Author | M.L. Little |
| ISBN | 9781684333 |
After Gabriel Draven smuggles home the Stone of the Seven Realms, his fear of facing consequences launches him and his oddball family on a rollicking run for their lives across the world they only thought they knew. As his journey takes him out of his realm and into another, Gabriel discovers that the...
Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation (Manga) Vol. 1
| Author | Rifujin na Magonote |
| ISBN | 1626922357 |
Just when an unemployed thirty-four-year-old otaku reaches a dead end in life and decides that it's time to turn over a new leaf-he gets run over by a truck and dies! Shockingly, he finds himself reborn into an infant's body in a strange, new world of swords and magic.
His new identity is Rudeus...
| Author | Anne Bishop |
| ISBN | 0451458028 |
A prequel set in the "dark and sensual world" (11th Hour) of the national bestselling Black Jewels Trilogy.
Jared is a Red-Jeweled Warlord bound as a pleasure slave by the Ring of Obedience. After suffering nine years of torment as a slave, he murdered his owner and escaped -- only to be caught...
