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Wolfpitch by Balazs Lorinczi – REVIEW
Wolfpitch is a delicious and pitch-perfect YA graphic novel. With an impressive combination of diverse women, friendships, competition, music, and milkshakes, there’s not more you could want. Not to mention, it completely made my day when I read it. Continue reading
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Kingdom Riders by Shannon Eric Denton and Marcus To – REVIEW
A good way to get me to read something is to tell me it’s similar to The Hunger Games. When I saw Kingdom Riders promoted as a combination of Hunger Games and Amulet, I knew I needed to read it. I am so glad I did. Reading Kingdom Riders feels like revisiting a show you’ve forgotten from childhood. It’s remarkably nostalgic, while… Continue reading
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The Cull, Volume 1 by Kelly Thompson and Mattia De Iulis – REVIEW
The Cull bills itself as Something is Killing the Children meets “The Goonies,” which sounds right up my alley. Its summary reads like a Karen McManus young adult mystery-horror, which hooked me. Five teen friends leave their homes in the middle of the night to shoot a film at the beach, but one of them is lying to the… Continue reading
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I Feel Awful, Thanks by Lara Pickle
You know when you start reading a book and you know it’s going to be a great read? That feeling when the setting is so comfortable you could sink into it or when the characters feel like old friends you’re catching up with. That’s how reading I Feel Awful Thanks felt for me. I Feel Awful, Thanks is… Continue reading
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The Mushroom Knight, Vol. 1 by Oliver Bly
If a cottagecore setting and sentient, chivalrous mushrooms strike your fancy, I have the perfect graphic novel for you. The Mushroom Knight, a clever creation from Oliver Bly, is a fantastical tale about tiny woodland creatures, a changing forest ecosystem, and a young black girl who has lost her dog. Continue reading
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Friday, Book One: The First Day of Christmas by Ed Brubaker and Marcos Martín
Ed Brubaker is quickly becoming a favorite comic creator of mine. Since December, I’ve devoured his graphic novels Night Fever and Where the Body Was, which were 5-star and 4-star reads for me, respectively. Since then, I’ve been picking up everything I see by Brubaker at my local bookstores. I jumped at the chance to… Continue reading
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Ghost Roast by Shawnee Gibbs and Shawnelle Gibbs
Ghost Roast tells the story of Chelsea Grant, a high-schooler in New Orleans who finally got in the cool crowd at school this year. Only, they don’t know her dad is the local ghost-buster in town with the super-embarrassing commercials. After a pretty wild party on the last day of school, Chelsea’s grounded and forced to… Continue reading