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Bloodlust and Bonnets by Emily McGovern

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labunnywtf's review against another edition

3.0

Received via Netgalley in exchange for a fair and unbiased review.

It took me a lot longer to get through this than I expected.

I am a huge fan of Emily McGovern's web comic, My Life as a Background Slytherin. Yes, because it's Harry Potter, but also the absolute cackle worthy humor involved with that series always puts me in a good mood, even if I've read the same strip 10 times before.

Since that story is focused more on an original character than the already established characters, I felt safe reading this, her first original graphic novel.

Lucy is an unhappy British girl who longs for more than dances and tea parties. She wants adventure and romance, and finds both after she goes on a wild rampage at a picnic and beheads several people. Turns out this makes her a perfect candidate to be invited to join a Secret Vampire Society, if she can ever get to the Vampire Tower before someone shoots the head vampire every time she goes to give her instructions.

Lucy teams up with Lord Byron (yes, that one) and a cast of characters, including a psychic French eagle and a person named Sham who you would THINK that name might inspire a bit of concern, but hmm. They're off to hunt vampires. Or join them. Maybe.

The humor in here is really good. It's the quirky humor I've come to expect from Emily McGovern, and some of it is brilliantly facepalm worthy.

But the story....the story, she does not flow. It's incredibly confusing in parts, and I inevitably ended up putting it down repeatedly and picking up something else that would catch my attention.

I really hope McGovern continues to write original novels, because this is such a good start, and she can only go up from here.

geekwayne's review against another edition

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4.0

'Bloodlust & Bonnets' written and drawn by Emily McGovern is a graphic novel that is a send up of classic Romantic literature. And vampires!

The plot follows Lucy, an unusual debutante in her quest to be her own person. She is joined by others. Sham, a bounty-hunter, wants to find a vampire and kill it. Lord Byron just wants to drink and party. Lucy wants to find the vampire and join her cool cult of vampires. There is also a large psychic (and French thinking) bird, and a talking castle that is particular about when it talks.

I laughed many times reading this story. The humor is literate and amazing. I laughed at Lucy constantly getting large bloodstains on anything she wore. I laughed at the antics of the bird and the castle. There are lots of funny surprises all over this story.

I received a review copy of this graphic novel from Andrews McMeel Publishing and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this ebook.