A review by moonyreadsbystarlight
SuperMutant Magic Academy by Jillian Tamaki

funny mysterious
  • Plot- or character-driven? N/A

2.5

This book was a peek into this high school for magical kids. This is set up more like a comic strip collection than one cohesive story. I didn't really vibe with how sporadic the different comics were. Some of it did clearly move through time, while others were one-shots. There were pieces that were really good and pieces that I really didn't get or I found the main joke off-putting (some of the jokes were unclear, but others had aged poorly). There is one set of "main characters" to a certain extent -- Wendy and Marsha. Parts of the book, particularly towards the end gave them longer scenes and more of a story. I enjoyed the parts with more plot and there were a couple of characters that grabbed my attention, but there was so much going on that it was hard to really get into the characters (which is not great for me since I prefer more character-driven stories). It was a neat idea, but the beginning needed more direction and there were parts that could have been left out or changed to give it a clearer focus
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