The Ghost of Blanes Museum by Lau Moraiti
The Ghost of Blanes Museum by Lau Moraiti (both text and illustrations) is due late May/early June 2024. I had a “do I/don’t I read it” relationship with this book. I was not sure I really wanted to read it, but the cover kept pulling me in. I finally had one too many cosmic hints that said, “Read it already!” And I finally read it via an online reader copy. In the end I am not sure why I waited so long! Yet, I think […]
Wildfire by Breena Bard
The graphic novel Wildfire by Breena Bard has a heavy push of environmentalism and that which causes them, and how to try and fix them. Which is, of course a fantastic subject, but at times it felt a smidgen pushy. However, overall it is well done and introduces the subject well. I had a few spots where I had wished something else had happened or was handled differently, but I enjoyed things. A modern tone with bubbly, colorful, minimal detailed illustrations to help counter the […]
What Stalks Among Us by Sarah Hollowell
When best friends Sadie and Logan stumble across a strange corn maze out of season, they decide to venture inside on a lark. But when they stumble across what appear to be their own murdered bodies, they discover that they have become trapped in a time loop with a murderer on their heels. Thank you dreadpiratekel for putting this book on my radar – their review mentioned monsters made of corn, time loops, and all the way in which toxic people suck, and I was […]
Mel the Chosen by Rachele Aragno
Mel the Chosen is an odd little girl and in an odd little book that is a fun way of showing an adventure that is both familiar, and new to us. Rachele Aragno’s story gives us a little magic and the age old warning of “Be careful what you wish for, as you just might get it.” Much of the book is “know your reader” with the “spooky” elements (not too much for most people, but could be for some), the slightly abstract but realistic […]
Every Day V02 Another Day by David Levithan
Reading some of the reviews on a well-know website known for having reviews, I found that I was not the only one who thought Every Day V02 Another Day by David Levithan had several weak parts. This is not a true sequel to Every Day but the companion of how the several months the characters A (a person who leaps into a person’s body for the day) and Rhiannon (high schooler) meet when A was in the body of her boyfriend, Justin, and the aftermath, […]
Heartstopper volume 5: A Graphic Novel by Alice Oseman
Heartstopper volume 5: A Graphic Novel by Alice Oseman is more of the same with the characters Nick, Charlie, their family and their friends. While we focus on Nick and Charlie (as the other volumes have done) Oseman has added a few areas that are “outside” of the boy’s knowledge (such as there is a flashback with Charlie’s mom and one with a teacher), and there are a few areas that are just “Nick focused” or just “Charlie focused” as usual. There are some sexual […]
