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302 reviews
The Lonely Hearts Hotel by Heather O'Neill
5.0
This was not what I expected at all, but I loved it all the same.
Magic Realism, vulgarity, romance, and heartbreak. This book made me laugh and cry. It inspired me and enraged me. I can't get over it and never wanted it to end.
Magic Realism, vulgarity, romance, and heartbreak. This book made me laugh and cry. It inspired me and enraged me. I can't get over it and never wanted it to end.
The Little Reindeer by Nicola Killen
3.0
Cute artwork, loved the red and silver accents as well as the window cut outs. Story was cute, but there were an instance where the text had odd placement.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
5.0
I don't remember the book going so quickly! I couldn't put it down, loved the illustrations, loved the story. This book will forever be my favorite in the series for the sheer wonder of being introduced to the wizarding world of Harry Potter.
Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman
4.0
My second Alice Hoffman book, have to say this one is much better than The Museum of Extraordinary Things. I have watched the movie and was a little let down about how un-"witchy" this book was over all, but I did enjoy the characters and the story over all. I felt as though I got to know the characters very well and grew with them as they did. Just wish there was a bit more spell casting and potion brewing.
Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth by Oliver Jeffers
5.0
This was over all adorable. It was funny, it was cute, the art style was stylized but detailed that seized to amaze me. I want a series of these.
Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat by Bee Wilson
3.0
3.75/5 stars. For the most part very entertaining and interesting. It just got repetitive and dragged out at times. Otherwise really interesting. Loved listening to it, the narrator did very well.
Phasma by Delilah S. Dawson
3.0
Not sure what I expected from this book but this wasn't it. I thought it had promise in the beginning, Resistance Spy being captured by the first order and interrogated by Captain Cardinal, who wants to get dirt on Captain Phasma, before a meeting they're all having in so many hours.
The book is then the story of Phasma told by the Resistance Spy from the view of someone who was there on Phasma's home planet. This part, was a bit dull until about half way through the book, and then it started picking up and got me interested.
The book would occasionally switch it from telling the story of Phasma to present day either Captain Cardinals POV or the Resistance Spy POV, in the beginning I found the Cardinal and the Spy's POV more entertaining than Phasma's story. Once I got interested in Phasma's story, I found certain details fairly repetitive, particularly when the majority of Phasma's story was done and it went back to Captain Cardinal's view, his inner thoughts were so repetitive and honestly after Phasma's story was done and it became the present, the story became predictable.
Over all interesting.
The book is then the story of Phasma told by the Resistance Spy from the view of someone who was there on Phasma's home planet. This part, was a bit dull until about half way through the book, and then it started picking up and got me interested.
The book would occasionally switch it from telling the story of Phasma to present day either Captain Cardinals POV or the Resistance Spy POV, in the beginning I found the Cardinal and the Spy's POV more entertaining than Phasma's story. Once I got interested in Phasma's story, I found certain details fairly repetitive, particularly when the majority of Phasma's story was done and it went back to Captain Cardinal's view, his inner thoughts were so repetitive and honestly after Phasma's story was done and it became the present, the story became predictable.
Over all interesting.
Snotgirl, Vol. 1: Green Hair Don't Care by Leslie Hung, Bryan Lee O'Malley
2.0
This comic was disappointing. The art style is gorgeous and fun, but the story of the comic itself was fairly shallow, fake and lack luster. Lottie is a fashion blogger, who doesn't have "real" friends. She's "the best fashion blogger ever" and every one else is "basic." She creates nicknames for her "friends" otherwise she "can't tell them apart otherwise."Normgirl, Cutegirl, Coolgirl, Creepguy, Hotguy.
I kept thinking and waiting for this comic to get better, for Lottie as a character to develop more of a personality or growth, she does a smidgen, barely enough to notice, otherwise the whole comic is her thinking everything is unfair, and her life's a mess, nobody likes her, but why? She's the best!
I'm not sure if that was the whole point of this comic, and it was supposed to be funny, but I ultimately found it infuriating and ludicrous.
All this comic had going for it was the art style.
I kept thinking and waiting for this comic to get better, for Lottie as a character to develop more of a personality or growth, she does a smidgen, barely enough to notice, otherwise the whole comic is her thinking everything is unfair, and her life's a mess, nobody likes her, but why? She's the best!
I'm not sure if that was the whole point of this comic, and it was supposed to be funny, but I ultimately found it infuriating and ludicrous.
All this comic had going for it was the art style.