''Towards the end of this humdrum spectacle, Aaron Eckhart's titular creature describes himself as consisting of 'a dozen used parts from eight different corpses.' Much the same could be said of I, Frankenstein.''

''Like most of his later work, High Hopes believes in the human spirit but also in the power of outrage. And that, like Bruce, the more things change, the more they stay the same.''

''At different points in the narrative, Pierce Brown's dizzyingly good debut novel evokes The Hunger Games, Lord of the Flies, and Ender's Game, but to write it off as merely derivative would be lazy.''

''[Black Sails] is a fantasy, but its historical/literary roots lend it a real-world resonance that some other, grander, more purely fantastical genre series lack.''