Tag: 3 1/2 star
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Swamp Thing: Twin Branches – Maggie Stiefvater
Swamp Thing: Twin Branches by Maggie Stiefvater & Morgan Beem (illustrator) Happy release day to Swamp Thing: Twin Branches! Summary: From #1‑New York Times‑bestselling author Maggie Stiefvater (the Raven Cycle series) and artist Morgan Beem comes DC’s newest young adult original graphic novel, the spine-tingling saga Swamp Thing: Twin Branches. In the pages of this haunting retelling of the Swamp Thing origin story, teenage twin brothers Alec and Walker…
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Snug – Catana Chetwynd (Mini Review)
Snug: A Collection of Comics about Dating Your Best Friend by Catana Chetwynd My rating: 3.5 of 5 stars Snug by Catana Chetwynd is a book that compiles the author/illustrator’s comics about her life with her boyfriend (and best friend.) It was such a cute premise and I wanted to like it (and I did),…
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Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass – Mariko Tamaki
Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass by Mariko Tamaki My rating: 3.5 of 5 stars When thinking about reluctant readers, I always gravitate towards recommending graphic novels. It is something that I do on a daily basis in the library and I feel that it is usually the most successful way to get a reluctant reader to…
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Pumpkinheads – Rainbow Rowell
Pumpkinheads by Rainbow Rowell My rating: 3.5 of 5 stars When thinking about reluctant readers, I always gravitate towards recommending graphic novels. It is something that I do on a daily basis in the library and I feel that it is usually the most successful way to get a reluctant reader to engage with books.…
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Criers War – Nina Varela
Crier’s War by Nina Varela My rating: 3.5 of 5 stars Crier’s War is the first book in a new science fiction series about a world in which Automae have taken over and subjugated humans. Automae are Made, designed by their “parents” to be exactly what they want their “child” to be – and Crier…
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Batgirl, Volume 5: Art of the Crime – Mairghread Scott
Batgirl, Volume 5: Art of the Crime by Mairghread Scott My rating: 3.5 of 5 stars This graphic novel combines Batgirl #26-29, Batgirl Annual #2 plus an 8 page story from Batgirl #2, which means that it was pretty long (because of the Annual). The Annual storyline focuses on the familial relationship between Barbara Gordon…
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What If It’s Us – Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera
What If It’s Us by Becky Albertalli My rating: 3.5 of 5 stars What If Its Us is a contemporary novel about love and finding yourself co-written by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera. It was a cute, fluffy romance book set in NYC that would be a fun summer read. It revolves around the premise…
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Two Can Keep A Secret – Karen M McManus
Two Can Keep a Secret by Karen M. McManus My rating: 3.5 of 5 stars Two Can Keep a Secret is a stand-alone, mystery set in the town of Echo Ridge. Our main character is Ellery, who has a twin brother Ezra. Their mother was born in Echo Ridge, but left as soon as she…
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Down Among the Sticks and Bones – Seanan McGuire
Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire My rating: 3.5 of 5 stars Down Among the Sticks and Bones is the second book in the Wayward Children series, but chronologically it functions more like an origin story for the first book. As this book was assigned for class, I did not read the…
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Evermore – Sara Holland
Evermore by Sara Holland My rating: 3.5 of 5 stars Everless was such a unique concept and I could not wait to get to the second book in the series. I loved the book and was also utterly confused by it because it felt like a completely different story than the first book in the…
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