Some of the “teen” language is already a bit dated but the art and story are good. Vaughn as always, shines. Not too quippy but still funny, thoughtful, and well paced.

This was exactly what I expected: frivolous but fun. That’s what I wanted and that’s what got.

Max and I joined a Parent-Child Read Together Book Club for grades 1-3, led by a librarian at our public library. This is the book for our meeting tomorrow. It’s a fine book, but very centered on the death of a parent with very little on a library. It was a hard one for my son - both emotionally and also with getting a bit bored. He’s just going into 1st and I suspect this selection had the 2-3rd graders more in mind.

I hate giving negative reviews - mostly because I worry authors read these and NEVER LET RANDOS ON THE INTERNET RAIN ON YOUR DREAMS - but I almost set this one down 3 or 4 times. I relented, but still that was hard to finish, which hurt because it had some things going for it. Great fantasy world building. It drew kind of randomly from many sources of folklore, but the plot was basically good and the backdrop was cool as hell. Problems for me were (a) waiting for the plot to actually occur was akin to watching paint dry, and (b) we endlessly talked about characters without actually feeling like we got to know them. This was one of the slowest and needlessly descriptive books I’ve ever read. Pages of useless information. I’ve heard so much about this author, I’m really bummed it didn’t work for me.

Max book 😊

This is one of the best (the best?) comic I have read in 2018 so far. It’s a dark coming-of-age and superhero story. Think ‘stand by me’ but the body belongs to a super hero. No part of this is particularly funny or uplifting but it is a “fun” read. It’s also a really solid reminder of how much being a teenager sucks and how we never really know what’s going on in other people’s lives. Recommended. #nowreading #comics #graphicnovels

This series continues to be compelling urban fantasy. Little for the romance fans out there, but if mysterious crime dramas coupled with fantasy species is your thing these are great.

5 stars from my son. I find the hamster in these books snotty and smug, but it has a ton of good vocabulary so I like that.