★★★★½ “The Fast and the Furiosa” It was a good run. There was a point, not long ago, when action heroines could do no wrong. In hindsight, the golden era may have started in 2012 when the Hunger Games franchise began, along with Brave. Summers which followed brought us blockbusters… Continue reading| Girls With Guns
Literary rating: ★★★ Kick-butt quotient: ☆☆½ It’s a little hard to explain the universe in which this takes place. Humanity existed. However, their encounter with other races proved problematic for a variety of reasons, and led to them being exterminated, a genocide that was partly collateral damage in a war… Continue reading| Girls With Guns
Literary rating: ★★★ Kick-butt quotient: ☆☆☆☆ This dystopian future takes place after the United States of America is no longer united, having fragmented into a group of disparate regions that exist in an uneasy piece with each other. The heroine is 14-year-old Caroline, who lives in a remote part of… Continue reading| Girls With Guns
Literary rating: ★★ Kick-butt quotient: ☆☆☆ What I’ll remember about this one is the arc. Not so much of any character, more as to whether or not this would qualify for the site. The story began on solid enough ground, but around the end of the first volume (this omnibus… Continue reading| Girls With Guns
