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librarianryan's review
medium-paced
3.0
This is an interesting graphic novel. It’s for second grade and above, and it starts out with a bunch of unicorns making friends with moles. However, as the unicorns age they keep leaving the moles out of things, or thinking that they’re better than the moles, and one day the moles have had enough and want to break free. Their plan backfires and the moles end up trapped underground for a very long time. The same time you’re reading this story you’re learning about Sparkles and Death who are the very best of friends. Sparkles knows he hast to get to a very specific dance party if, they want to become a Unicorn/Uniman proper. They are part of this that I don’t particularly like because it’s a version of slavery. And there’s nothing to acknowledge it at the end. It’s very now we’re happy, let’s forget the past. There’s no real bridge between the two time periods in the book. I did like it but it’s not a book I would recommend frequently. I liked the way the author told the story I love the illustrations and I think the flow worked. It’s the story that didn’t.
Content Warnings
Minor: Slavery
emmybird86's review
5.0
I loved this. It was so cute. The art work was awesome. The story was so good. I just loved Death and Sparkles. I cannot wait to read more in the series.
smorrison4's review
4.0
Book #2 in the Death & Sparkles series was great. I love that Sparkles got to find out more about his unicorn heritage and that Death got to take a day off and have a little fun. I wonder if we will see more of the mole men in the future?
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