It's Gay, It Slaps, and is the embodiment of a romance anime.

Savanna Ganucheau's two-page (typically 2 tw0-page spreads) perfectly captures moments that don't need words to be understood. Everyone was a masterpiece in storytelling in its own right.

Paired with how amazing Keven Panetta depicts the struggle of meeting other's expectations and the conflict of knowing those aren't for you, but also not knowing what you should be doing instead.

This is a delightful and beautiful coming-of-age story, and I can't recommend it enough.

I love the art style of this book, it gives me Jetsons' / Paperman (Disney Short Film) vibes. But this is the darker cousin that takes on the fact that capitalism just wants mindless drones to do work without complaint and once you can complain and rise up they are going to either put you in your place or find something better.

We also see how human prejudice has just changed targets from other humans to mechs (tho the only hate crime we see done to a mech in this was done by a white guy so this could be incorrect).

This is gorgeous from beginning to end, along with a really deep message. I will for sure be reading the rest of this series.

This book was enticing in the same way that I found books like 1984 and Fahrenheit 451 captivating in High School. It is like poking my head into a world that you can easily trace how you go from where you are now to the world depicted.

Notes from a Burning Age covers some similar ideas to what we see in the above books but with the looming threat that those in the younger generations live with, the destruction of the environment, and the consequences of our continued use of things like fossil fuels.
This book makes you think about whether or not it is alright to keep information away from people when that information could be considered dangerous, such as Nuclear Weapons.

This book covered so many ideas; that I stopped halfway through listening to buy a physical copy that I could mark up as I would have in High School. Having listened to the first half of this book again, I know there is so much more to see in this book, and I look forward to rereading this book.

I feel like this book could be a better discussion piece for High Schoolers to read in English Classes. It covers way more issues than what we see in the books (1984 and Fahrenheit 451) that have been standard in High Schools for the better part of 50 years. Including ones that are way more prevalent in the world, we live in today.

Do I own a copy of this book? yes.
Did I choose to borrow the audiobook from the library? yes.

This book has been staring me down since it arrived at my house, for 576 pages it shouldn't have been nearly as daunting as it was.

Aveyard throws you head first into this story and you have exactly 3 stops on this train, all in the first quarter of the book. So plan accordingly!

Also realize that this series WILL BE best read back to back. Especially for my fellow fan fiction gremlins. Because the ending does feels like the end of a chapter, not the end of a book and the next chapter is roughly a year away. So again, PLAN ACCORDINGLY!

I enjoyed this book so much, the banter and smart remarks had me grinning from beginning to end. I feel like the perfect way to phrase it is when Found Family has the same murderous intent that exists in blood family.
For me what made this book for me was the characters and their interactions with one another.

As someone who lives for Worldbuilding, this book didn't hit it for me. I felt like there was a fairly large amount of exposition, and in the end I don't expect to retain any knowledge about this world, especially since taking just a day away from this book was enough for me to have to refer back to the map in my physical edition.

I am looking forward to the follow up book, and obviously binging all three when I can.

I put off reading this book because I wasn't in the headspace to read about sisters being torn apart. But I am disappointed I did. Not just because I am a sucker for books about cults (because I am), but also because Courtney Summers's writing is beautiful and her depiction of healing, along with the unhealthy coping mechanisms we can take on instead of doing the work to heal, was amazing.

I honestly hadn't expected because Summers does such an amazing job weaving us into Lev's narrative just as he is weaving Lo into his.

I do want to warn some graphic depictions of violence towards the end to be aware of and mentions of abuse throughout.

This book was amazing, though, and I will probably reread it in the future.

Yoi is what my non-binary dreams are made of, A level of androgyny I will never be able to attain.

Is this book Gay? No.
But does it get Gender Affirmation right? YES!!!!!

This is so incredibly cute, and I'm 10/10 going to continue reading this because I must see them get their happy ending.

This book feels incredibly poignant given the media coverage and conversation regarding Residential Schools.

But for me, this book covered a topic that has specifically haunted me from a young age, which was the slaughter of an estimated 40 million Buffalo. I remember seeing a picture similar to Amanda Strong'sdepiction of a towering pile of buffalo skulls. I'm sure there was some 2 line blurb about it. Or maybe even a whole paragraph. But what I know is that it didn't address the fact that this was an attempt to starve the Indigenous peoples of America and Canada.

This book looks at the history that we aren't shown, and I honestly wish I could go back in time and hand this book to myself.

This book is gorgeous and informational. Strong provides so much knowledge as well as additional resources. I would honestly recommend it to everyone.

Jonna is a whole mix of Donnie from the Wild Thornberry's and Tarzan. But, instead of a Jungle, make it a post-apocalyptic world full of giant monsters.
It is also a wholesome story of survival and finding your family once again.
It also has one of the most unique weapons I have ever seen.

I will continue the Graphic Novel if I can find it because it is too wholesome.

This is the Zombie story that feels like something that hasn't been seen. We always know the survival side of Zombie media, but never something that encompasses a resolution to the problem.

The only piece of media that I can honestly say compares is Warm Bloods, and not because it's a romance. It's the only other piece of media where the Zombies are actively part of the media and are allowed "salvation."

This book is super interesting because we get the standard fanfare of a Zombie story through the eyes of a revived zombie trying to get the Vaccine from Point A to Point B. While not shying away from the fact that our protagonists spent the last year as zombies, and they remember it.

This manga captivated me from beginning to end and given that it is part 1 of 2. I will be hunting down the second volume so I can see the ending.