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The perfect addition to an almost perfect story (Zutarra 4Eva!!)

The Promise (Avatar: the Last Airbender) by Gene Luen Yang

The Search (Avatar: the Last Airbender) by Gene Luen Yang

The Rift (Avatar: the Last Airbender) by Gene Luen Yang

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At the age of 41, I have finally seen Avatar: the Last Airbender, and boy, have I been fangirling out like a tweenager. I am a Zuko girly, a no-arguments Zutarra shipper, I made ATLA my library’s September theme (“Reading is Elemental” was the national theme but ALA went with Pixar… Psshaw), and I immediately dove into the graphic novel series (which I intend to read before continuing the journey in Korra). I was fairly familiar with these books as I have ordered them for […]

“People shouldn’t have everything they want. No one is entitled to their every desire. To live in balance, we must willingly decide not to take all that we can from the world, and from others.”

The Shadow of Kyoshi (The Kyoshi Novels, #2) by F.C. Yee

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Super quick review on this one, because I read this and the first one back to back, so they’re a bit blurred in my memory. I do remember I liked the first one just a bit more. Yee continues Avatar Kyoshi’s story as she claims her Avatarhood. She doesn’t have advisors or mentors like most Avatars, and she has to figure it out all on her own. Like we saw of Kyoshi in A:TLA, she is hyper-focused on the concept of justice. But what is […]

This is a media-tie in novel, but it’s also just a good fantasy novel.

The Rise of Kyoshi (The Kyoshi Novels, #1) by F.C. Yee

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This was so good! I hope there are ten more of them. I watched Avatar: The Last Airbender when it was on Netflix the first time, around 2010 or so, and fell in love with it. I rewatched it probably three times in the next couple years, and then one day it was gone from Netflix. This was sad. So I had to buy the DVDs. Since then, about once a year I just get this craving to return to this world and rewatch, and I’ve […]



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