I'm honestly baffled by where Hickman is taking the X-Men and the mutants. Nothing about this makes any sense. The characterization makes no sense. The plot is obtuse and confusing. Krakoa feels like one big weird death cult, for no reason at all. 

I don't have anything else to say. It's disappointment after disappointment with Hickman.

Jamal Campbell is too damn good. His art is just top tier. 

I really enjoyed this story, especially as someone who has never read Green Lantern and only knows the bare basics of the Lantern mythos. This is essentially a standalone DC series that anyone can read. N.K. Jemisin weaves in so many contemporary themes in a way that made them feel natural to Jo as a character, and not using the comic as a soapbox. 

My only real issue with this was the pacing. Having all 12 issues combined in one trade paperback makes this a hefty read and exposes some of the issues in the storytelling and pacing; I don't think I'd have been as bored in some areas or reeling so hard in others if I'd been reading this issue to issue.

Overall, a really fun story with incredible art. 

The awful experience that was Blaze of Memory put me off this series for two months, but I'm glad to be jumping back in with a book that didn't disappoint!

As I continue this series, I realize more and more that the overall way the romances are written are not what I'm here for. The world building and the macro plot that is slowly turning into an unavoidable avalanche ready to wreak havoc on the Psy-Changeling world is what I'm here for. This world is just so intriguing and I enjoy it immensely. The macro plot here got a ton of focus and it was SO GOOD. I NEED TO KNOW WTF IS GOING ON WITH KRYCHECK. DESPERATELY.

Thankfully, there was a much greater focus on the world and the macro plot versus the micro romance plot, because this romance was so-so. It was leagues better than Dev and Katya, but the bar Dev set as a romantic hero was in hell so that's not saying much. I did appreciate that Max and Sophia very quickly figured out that they needed to be open with each other and approached their budding romance in that way; it avoided most of the grosser aspects of the dominant male/submissive female romances in this series. 

The next book seems to be a wolf/wolf romance, which I'm excited for. My favorite romances (aka where I've actually enjoyed the romance instead of suffering through it for the macro world plot) have been the ones where the men and women are on way more equal footing. 

DNF @ 48%. 

The audiobook truly shines a harsh light on how repetitive and boring this second installment of this series is, and how much this book was streeeeetched to make this a trilogy instead of a duology. The same basic scenes are repeated over and over again, leaving the readers and Stevie with no real forward momentum once she gets back to the academy. None of the side characters are written in any depth, not even Stevie's BFFs. The only saving grace here was the chapters written in the past during the original Ellingham mystery, but it's not enough to keep me going.

It's too early in the year to suffer through this. Onward to another audiobook!

A very slight step down from the first volume, but Kelly Thompson is still killing it, character-wise. The team up! The action! THE ART!!!

Wonderful stuff. So glad to see Natasha is getting an excellent book, as she deserves.