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thelibrarylady42's review against another edition
4.0
*Copy provided by Net Galley*
*Spoilers for Foiled*
I really love Jane Yolen. Her graphic novels have as much magic and fun as her novels. They have good characters that are often well drawn and a great story. Aliera is a strong young woman who is making the best of being thrown into a world she never knew existed. Over all I really enjoyed the book but I was a little frustrated with Aliera and the way she treated Avery. I wanted to shake her and say are you really that dumb or are you treating him like garbage because you're hurt? She thought Avery was interested in her and finding out that he was a troll was upsetting. I get that but should she really be ignoring everything he says when he clearly knows more about this world than she does? Use your brain child. I'm sure this annoyance comes from being an adult reading the book. I'm pretty sure most teens would be right with her.
Verdict: Book 2 is already on order. Safe enough to have in an upper elementary/middle school. Some of the monsters are a little crude and gross so be aware of readership. Foiled is fairly popular in my library so I can see the sequel being popular as well.
*Spoilers for Foiled*
I really love Jane Yolen. Her graphic novels have as much magic and fun as her novels. They have good characters that are often well drawn and a great story. Aliera is a strong young woman who is making the best of being thrown into a world she never knew existed. Over all I really enjoyed the book but I was a little frustrated with Aliera and the way she treated Avery. I wanted to shake her and say are you really that dumb or are you treating him like garbage because you're hurt? She thought Avery was interested in her and finding out that he was a troll was upsetting. I get that but should she really be ignoring everything he says when he clearly knows more about this world than she does? Use your brain child. I'm sure this annoyance comes from being an adult reading the book. I'm pretty sure most teens would be right with her.
Verdict: Book 2 is already on order. Safe enough to have in an upper elementary/middle school. Some of the monsters are a little crude and gross so be aware of readership. Foiled is fairly popular in my library so I can see the sequel being popular as well.
ogreart's review against another edition
4.0
I am never really sure about a sequel. It's always a gamble. I am glad the gamble paid off this time. I enjoyed this book just as much as I did the first one. The story continued and continued to dig deeper into the world that Yolen and Cavallaro are creating. There was some character growth, which is always good to see. If they write and draw a third volume, I'm there for it.
aoosterwyk's review against another edition
2.0
This second in the series seemed slow to me. I found myself skimming, never a good sign.
mikaiten's review against another edition
3.0
I loved the art and the story in this book, and will definitely recommend it to any customers who come looking for a new graphic novel experience.
kelleemoye's review against another edition
4.0
**Spoilers for Foiled #1**
Surprisingly, I liked the 2nd book of the series more than the first. It must have been that the first was just the exposition where this one you are really getting into the meat of the story. And there is definitely meat in this book. We delve deeper into Aliera's job as the defender of Fairy Land as well as her love/hate relationship with Avery the troll. The first brings the adventure to the story and the latter brings the humor. Foiled is a great mixture of both which keeps you completely entertained throughout. The only down fall is that there are pages where there is so much going on it is hard to narrow it down, but these few pages do not degrade the quality of the graphic novel.
What I particularly loved about this Curses! is that we got to really get into the mythology of the fairy land. Yolen has taken a mix of fairy creatures (ala Shrek) and thrown them into her story making her own fairy tale with a human as the hero.
Jane Yolen is amazing. I have read picture books, graphic novels and novels by her and they are all so well crafted and unique. I would love to just step inside of her brain just for a minute to see all of the ideas she has stored up there.
Mentor text for: Vocabulary, Allusions, Simile, Humor, Colorization, Puns
Snatch of text: "Baba Yaga, the great Russian witch. Iron teeth and an iron nose. Ate bad boys and helped feisty girls, sort of adopted them... Did she happen to mention that Baba Yaga lives in a house that walks on chicken feet? Or that she rides around in a mortar and pestle?" (p. 33)
Surprisingly, I liked the 2nd book of the series more than the first. It must have been that the first was just the exposition where this one you are really getting into the meat of the story. And there is definitely meat in this book. We delve deeper into Aliera's job as the defender of Fairy Land as well as her love/hate relationship with Avery the troll. The first brings the adventure to the story and the latter brings the humor. Foiled is a great mixture of both which keeps you completely entertained throughout. The only down fall is that there are pages where there is so much going on it is hard to narrow it down, but these few pages do not degrade the quality of the graphic novel.
What I particularly loved about this Curses! is that we got to really get into the mythology of the fairy land. Yolen has taken a mix of fairy creatures (ala Shrek) and thrown them into her story making her own fairy tale with a human as the hero.
Jane Yolen is amazing. I have read picture books, graphic novels and novels by her and they are all so well crafted and unique. I would love to just step inside of her brain just for a minute to see all of the ideas she has stored up there.
Mentor text for: Vocabulary, Allusions, Simile, Humor, Colorization, Puns
Snatch of text: "Baba Yaga, the great Russian witch. Iron teeth and an iron nose. Ate bad boys and helped feisty girls, sort of adopted them... Did she happen to mention that Baba Yaga lives in a house that walks on chicken feet? Or that she rides around in a mortar and pestle?" (p. 33)
izumisano's review against another edition
2.0
All she did was bitch the whole time. It doesn't make for good storytelling when the protagonist is too pigheaded to listen to the one person offering help even though she's desperately confused.
moonpie's review against another edition
3.0
My ten-year-old comics fiend loved Foiled Again; I just thought it was okay. I couldn't really get into the story and I wasn't digging the illustration style. Might have clicked with it better if I'd read the first book before this one, but I'm not really interested in testing that theory.
I'll have to check it out for Peaches, though. She liked the trolls.
(I gave this an extra star because I enjoyed talking to Peaches about it.)
I'll have to check it out for Peaches, though. She liked the trolls.
(I gave this an extra star because I enjoyed talking to Peaches about it.)
booksnorkel's review against another edition
4.0
This one was better than the first though not by much. I really wish Yolen would let the illustrations speak for themselves. You don't have to recap everything, you don't have to explain everything that is happening as we can see it happening. And you really don't have to have your character be so aggressively angry at literally everything. Her classmates, her troll, the fact that she's magic. Really seriously tone it down a notch. A hero can have a chipped shoulder but dang she's like 14.
I really wanted more from her, like if I was a hero of fairy I would be all about reading up on all the stories, not knowing who Baba Yaga is something that will get you killed. And then there's the whole, she's still in denial about the whole thing AHSKJFIEOSWHFGOIEUFOSDFJNLSD
Anyway, I will continue to read these, but only if I can buy them for super cheap.
I really wanted more from her, like if I was a hero of fairy I would be all about reading up on all the stories, not knowing who Baba Yaga is something that will get you killed. And then there's the whole, she's still in denial about the whole thing AHSKJFIEOSWHFGOIEUFOSDFJNLSD
Anyway, I will continue to read these, but only if I can buy them for super cheap.
crystal_reading's review against another edition
4.0
Since we already know the backstory, this volume takes off right from the beginning and is action packed. I love that we have Baba Yaga in the story.