Alexandra’s Blog

The End is Coming

Oh The Strain, my personal brand of nightmare fuel. It’s good to have you back. Welcome to the beginning of the end. The apocalypse has happened. Humanity ha...

Gillian Anderson is David Bowie

It’s no secret that I love David Bowie. So when American Gods released promo pictures for episode five earlier today, I was extremely pleased. We were fir...

Top Ten Tuesday: Graphic Novels & Comics

Welcome back to Top Ten Tuesday! For those who don’t know, the Top Ten Tuesday Tag is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is: Top Ten Graphic...

The Sun is Also a Star: Behind the Scenes

Not every book cover comes to life with string! Watch as artist Dominique Falla creates the cover of The Sun Is Also a Star and gives a glimpse of the process w...

Wonder Woman Cover Reveal

Of course it’s the month that I find myself avoiding the internet that the cover for Leigh Bardugo’s Wonder Woman novel drops… and damn itR...

Niagara 2016 Vlog

Last weekend Chelsey and I went on an adventure to Niagara to visit the Book Outlet, go hiking and visit the Cheesecake factory. I shot some footage on my ph...

The Strain Vlogs #3.7: Collaborators

Setrakian plans to trap the Master; Eph and Dutch try to find the Master's "voice"; Palmer needs Setrakian's access to the white to hold up his end of their dea...

The Strain #3.1: New York Strong Recap

Given the way the final episode Night Train ended it seemed like our waiting was over. It was time for the epic payoff, humanity was doomed, the vampires were w...

Top Ten Websites I Love That Aren’t About Books

Welcome back to Top Ten Tuesday! For those who don’t know, the Top Ten Tuesday Tag is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. It’s been a while since I...

Cabal #5

THIS IS NOT A DRILL! The Fall of the House Cabal, that title isn’t ominous or anything. The fifth novel following my favourite necromancer is set to come ...

A Gathering of Shadows

A Gathering of Shadows puts its plot on hold to focus on developing its characters. It has a slow start but the ending is worth the wait.

New Teaser for A Monster Calls

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gznBvoDQYLI?showinfo=0] Yesterday we saw the release of the newest trailer for A Monster Calls. As beautiful as this fi...

Batman Versus Superman: A Fight to the Pain

With the release of Man of Steel, the DCU made its statement. These films aren’t like your Marvel movies. Our movies are real, our movies are deep, our mo...

Vampire’s Kiss

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxCiRKSjTgU?showinfo=0] My best friend and I have this weird tradition and I’m not sure either he or I know how i...

Top 5 Wednesday: Fictional Items We Want

Chelsey and I talk about the top five fictional items we want. How many times have you been reading a book and you’ve come across an object (magical or otherwis...

Glass Sword

Glass Sword delivers a sequel that in now way lives up to it's predecessor. Between a lack of character development and a petulant heroine there is very little ...

Alexandra Reads Life and Death

Stephenie Meyer proved how gendered Twilight is with this rewrite. It wasn't her intention, but she did. All of the problems that existed with Twilight exist in...

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