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Beast Boy loves Raven story by: Kami Garcia Art by: Gabriel Picolo

I’ve said it in a different graphic novel. I grew up on DC, was taught to read with Batman. So whenever the opportunity to get anything DC related crosses my path, I jump on it. I haven’t been disappointed and this? This goes into the success pile. Beast Boy and Raven have done the relationship dance as long as I can remember. Will they, won’t they? He counters her rough, cold, scared demenor,…

Raphael, Painter in Rome by Stephanie Storey || ARC Review

Synopsis | Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel ceiling is one of the most iconic masterpieces of the Renaissance. Here, in Raphael, Painter in Rome, Storey tells of its creation as never before: through the eyes of Michelangelo’s fiercest rival—the young, beautiful, brilliant painter of perfection, Raphael. Orphaned at age eleven, Raphael is determined to keep the deathbed promise he made to his father: become the greatest artist in history. But to be the best, he must beat the best, the legendary sculptor of the David, Michelangelo Buonarroti. When Pope Julius II calls both artists down to Rome, they are pitted against each other: Michelangelo painting the Sistine Ceiling, while Raphael decorates the pope's private apartments. As Raphael strives toward perfection in paint, he battles internal demons: his desperate ambition, crippling fear of imperfection, and unshakable loneliness. Along the way, he conspires with cardinals, scrambles through the ruins of ancient Rome, and falls in love with a baker’s-daughter-turned-prostitute who becomes his muse.

What We Harvest by: Ann Fraistat

This was a great read. What We Harvest asks what is the cost of a miracle? It turns out to be very high, and when people get greedy, miracles are easily tainted and warped into curses. Hollow’s End is a small town that is suffering from a blight. It’s closed off from everywhere else thanks to a checkpoint and medical station that closes off the bridge out of town. We’re thrown into the story…