Excuse me, what?

This story is insane. At first you think, this character is crazy and then he's not. The story is a 10 year old murder/massacre come back for revenge. Hang on.

This is the second Stephen Graham Jones book I've picked up, Mr. Jones has some impressive writing. I enjoyed following Jade around her real life slasher adventure, as a horror lover myself, the little slasher trivia was fun, and the split from the real story every so often with Jade's "history" papers added a fun back story element. Cheers to the weird slasher girls that don't really fit in, you're final girls too.

Edit: and a trilogy! Surprise to me!

Grady Hendrix, you craft fiend, this was great. I've never read a book with action from the start to the finish and I still didn't know who the "bad guy" was until it was literally spelled out for me. Very enjoyable read. There were a lot of characters which made it tough for me to remember who was who but that's my flaw. Great read. Give it a go.

Chbosky writes a terrifying story bringing the unseen world smashing into the real world and makes a young Elementary boy the center of it. This was an awesome read, fast paced (despite it's rather large word count), and unsettling.

That was weird. Enjoyable? Sure. Five stars? No.

You ok, Cleveland? What a fun ride along with a teenage drug dealing horn-ball.

Jazz Owls: A novel of the zoot suit riots was a novel written in prose from the perspective of mainly Spanish American young adults and their family but also from the perspective of a few police officers and news reporters. While I did not particularly care for the book, I do think it is an important story to tell and one that needs to be heard from the perspective of the Spanish Americans that were targets of racism in the 1940’s. I felt that the characters were not well developed and therefore a lot of the emotion in their narratives was lost therefore failing to draw the reader in emotionally.
Engle’s novel, Jazz Owls, won multiple awards: ALA Notable Children's Books, CCBC Choices (Cooperative Children's Book Council), Bank Street Children's Book Award, Americas Award Commended Title, and NCTE Notable Verse Novel List (Jazz Owls, 2020). The term Jazz Owls refers to young women that would go to Jazz clubs after work and dance with American soldiers. This book could be used in a poetry class, a point of discussion could be about books written in prose and how to properly execute prose as a novel. Other important themes in the book could also be discussed. The book looks into the zoot suit riots from the angle of those targeted in the riots and calls them the “Soldier Riots” because the newspapers refer to them as “Zoot Suit Riots” which infers that the Spanish American young adults were the cause of the riots, which is not the case. Another interesting parallel is that the young adult narrator’s brother is off fighting in the war for America as a solider but he is segregated even in war, but back in America, the riots are being caused by soldiers that have not deployed yet and the police are protecting their actions so that they do not look bad for handcuffing a young man in uniform. The young women in the story are fighting for women’s rights in the workplace as well, organizing unions and fair labor standards for them.
Additional Citations:
Jazz Owls. (2020). Retrieved July 03, 2020, from https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Jazz-Owls/Margarita-Engle/9781534409446