Tony Medina (I Am Alfonso Jones), Eisner & Harvey Award-nominated artist Ethan Young, Cerece Rennie Murphy (founder, ) gamer podcaster/author Michael F. Learn the business from award-winning children’s author Dr. There were fake blood products being sold, blood clubs, the “S&B lifestyle” (sangers & bleeders), illegal blood trade, etc.Geeks of Color is the premiere NYCC panel on diverse career-building in comics, book publishing, gaming, animation, and film/TV. The vampires, and the world-building that came with them having been revealed, was interesting too. I don’t even get my energy from the sun, but I want a solarium just like that for myself anyway. He had the ability of astral projection, he got his energy from the Egyptian Sun God, he had a cat (because of course he would have a cat), and gosh, his solarium sounded GORGEOUS. I love books about uncommon supernatural beings, and this was the first one I found with a mummy as the protagonist.

And it’s because of these two characters that I want to continue the series.Īs for the whole mummy thing, I loved the author’s take on it. My favorite thing was the banter between them, especially when they joked about each others’ pasts or supernatural status, like when Marcus told Alex not to get his bandages in a bunch. Both have been alive, and around each other, for a long time. And this seemed like more of a plot-focused book anyway.īut, even though this may have been pretty plot-focused, I still thought both Alex and Marcus were interesting, and I liked the parts with their POVs the most.

(Or maybe it was just omniscient? It didn’t quite feel omniscient though.) But there were also whole chapters with only one POV, so it was only an occasional issue. There were multiple, and sometimes we would be in one character’s POV for a bit and then all the sudden jump to another POV with no indication. The only other issue I had (just to get the negatives out of the way) was the POVs. But I think I eventually got all the important stuff down, and I got more into everything as the story went on. There was a lot going on, what with all the different groups (the police units, the supernatural groups, the anti-supernatural groups, the government agencies, etc.) and lots of human and vampire politics, and I’m also just not familiar with how all the cop stuff works. I have to admit though, I thought I could get down with the whole police procedural thing, but it was confusing to me at times. It was all just kinda was what it was, even when it was ugly. It also lived up to the description of gritty that’s in the blurb in the sense that the creatures, the characters, the city, the police work-none of it was romanticized. And I gotta say, the book did not disappoint in those regards. I was excited as soon as I read the blurb for this book because 1) I love uncommon supernatural creatures, 2) I love vampires, and 3) I love Miami as a setting. *I received an ecopy of this book via NetGalley.

Graveyard Shift by Michael F. Haspil