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A review by reader44ever
Oddly Normal, Vol. 1 by Otis Frampton
4.0
I first read this book on October 8, 2015.
I reread it around/about November 18, 2016.
The below review was written after my first reading, when only this book one was released.
I really enjoyed this graphic novel. It was great fun! Oddly Normal (great name!) is a young girl with a witch from Fignation for a mother, so she's a half-witch. On her birthday, she makes a wish that, unfortunately for her and her parents, comes true. So her Auntie transfers her to Fignation, where Oddly joins a new middle school.
Hoping to no longer be a freak, Oddly soon has her hopes dashed as, to the resident kids of Fignation, being from the real world makes her a freak. The poor kid just can't win.
She makes friends with some of her fellow students at lunch: Misty McCloud (ghost), Reggie (think Frankenstein's monster), and a stereotypical-Igor-looking type named Ragnar Theopolis (Reggie's half-brother). But the school's bullies already have it out for her and get her in trouble.
Rescued from detention with Dungeon Master Dave by Mister Crabula, who has a rather cryptic - for Oddly - warning for her, she walks home...in the dark because the sun has a schedule to keep. In the woods, she's met by the Vamp boy and his werewolf sidekicks.
They say they're earning extra credit (I don't think I like Mr. Harrison Gooseberry) and the werewolves change and chase her. Reggie distracts them and tells Oddly to run and...the book ends.
That's it.
Oddly is running for her life and...
The End.
ARGH!!!
It's a good thing I like this story and wanted to read more even before being thrown off a cliff in the end. But I really hate the cliffhanger ending. Where's the next volume and how soon can I get it???
What?!?! Book 2 isn't going to be released until November 5, 2015?! ARGH!!!
I reread it around/about November 18, 2016.
The below review was written after my first reading, when only this book one was released.
I really enjoyed this graphic novel. It was great fun! Oddly Normal (great name!) is a young girl with a witch from Fignation for a mother, so she's a half-witch. On her birthday, she makes a wish that, unfortunately for her and her parents, comes true. So her Auntie transfers her to Fignation, where Oddly joins a new middle school.
Hoping to no longer be a freak, Oddly soon has her hopes dashed as, to the resident kids of Fignation, being from the real world makes her a freak. The poor kid just can't win.
She makes friends with some of her fellow students at lunch: Misty McCloud (ghost), Reggie (think Frankenstein's monster), and a stereotypical-Igor-looking type named Ragnar Theopolis (Reggie's half-brother). But the school's bullies already have it out for her and get her in trouble.
Rescued from detention with Dungeon Master Dave by Mister Crabula, who has a rather cryptic - for Oddly - warning for her, she walks home...in the dark because the sun has a schedule to keep. In the woods, she's met by the Vamp boy and his werewolf sidekicks.
They say they're earning extra credit (I don't think I like Mr. Harrison Gooseberry) and the werewolves change and chase her. Reggie distracts them and tells Oddly to run and...the book ends.
That's it.
Oddly is running for her life and...
The End.
ARGH!!!
It's a good thing I like this story and wanted to read more even before being thrown off a cliff in the end. But I really hate the cliffhanger ending. Where's the next volume and how soon can I get it???
What?!?! Book 2 isn't going to be released until November 5, 2015?! ARGH!!!