In the final volume of Darth Vader Dark Lord of the Sith, Vader tracks down and kills former Jedi Council member Eeth Koth and captures his newborn daughter. After punishing two Inquisitors that he feels betrayed the Empire, he's given domain over a planet of his choosing, Mustafar. But constructing his castle is easier said…
In the third volume of the second run of the Darth Vader comic, the Emperor sends Tarkin and Vader to Mon Cala to bring King Lee Char to heel so that the Empire can take over. But Lee Char has a secret adviser - a Jedi - , and Vader and the Inquisitors are tasked…
In all the fairy tale parallels found in the sequel trilogy, Beauty and the Beast is common, with Kylo/Ben as the monster and Rey as the maiden who will set him free with her love. But in The warm embrace of long, sharp teeth by kyriadamorte gives us a twist of that trope, giving us monster…
In this delightful sequel, Sunny is back home and starting middle school. But things aren't the same with out her older brother around. Dale failed his senior year and was shipped off to a military style academy to help him straighten out his attitude and substance abuse problems. But Sunny is feeling the weight of…
In 1976 twelve-year-old Sunshine Lewin has been sent to sunny Florida for a month to stay with her grandfather rather than going to the Jersey Shore (aka the beach). She expects she'll have fun, after all Disney World is in Florida. But she finds herself at a 55 and over retirement community. She soon makes…
One lens through which you can view Star Wars is that it is a fairy tale. Many elements of all the trilogies have fairy tale elements and the relationship between Rey and Kylo/Ben lends itself to many fairy tale tropes. There are countless fairy tale AUs, but one of my favorites is the world shifts (and…
Joint Choices As we were putting this together we discovered we had a few commonalities. Gilbert Blythe from the Anne of Green Gables books by Lucy Maud Montgomery Melissa's Reason: While he did come off as a little teasing jerk at the first introduction, he proved himself to actually be a kind and caring young…
Igraine is the daughter of two great magicians, but she longs to be a knight instead of learn magic like her older brother. Her parents have just accidentally turned themselves into pigs with a bit of misspoken magic, when the dastardly Osmund takes over their neighbor's castle. Osmund chooses that moment to plots to steal…
Jane Austen has given the world some of my most favorite books of all-time. Her final completed novel Persuasion is less ironically funny than many of her earlier works, but offers a deeper exploration of more melancholy feelings than anything else she's produced. Persuasion always reminds me of autumn--the end of things, but with great beauty that will bring…
He didn’t know how precious a normal life could be, how easy it was to drift away from average. You started sleeping until noon, skipped one class, one day of school, lost one job, then another, forgot the way that normal people did things. You lost the language of ordinary life. And then, without meaning…
