This was a really satisfying conclusion to the trilogy, and I especially appreciated the Ramadan throughline. Rick Riordan is so smart at blending modern day real-world details with the mythology, and so great at creating lovable characters and zippy plots. What an all-star!

As a comics reader I'm used to embracing a certain amount of confusion of "is this a new character or just a character I haven't seen before? Is this college in a different dimension or like what's happening here?" But basically I really enjoyed it! I especially loved seeing her interact with Peggy Carter and 80s Storm <3

A fun start to a series, I'll definitely continue to follow it.

IM NOT CRYING, YOU'RE CRYING

OH NO MY BAD, I'M CRYING. I'M CRYING SO MUCH. I'M CRYING SO MUCH IT'S MAKING YOU CRY TOO.

BUT LIKE IN A GOOD WAY THOUGH.

This is definitely something where, I can tell it's very good for the kind of thing that it is, but I don't love the kind of thing it is? I did really enjoy the detailed fashion analysis and the way it leveraged "feminine" skills and observations into good spy work...I just generally am not a big fan of like historical fiction/Regency romance/comedy of manners/whatever? Which I know a lot of people are fans of those things! So if you love those things I think you'll definitely love this book, and I appreciated its craft and characters and liked it just fine.

Also I'm a little confused by its YA designation--I feel like it would make more sense as a new adult book? It's not very sexy or anything but the characters and their concerns seemed more adult? I guess that's kind of often the case with YA historical fiction though, since, you know, changing definitions of "teenager" etc

OK so, Marissa Meyer's Lunar Chronicles were INCREDIBLE fairy tale retellings that just completely re-invented the source material, so innovative, next-level great. Then that Alice in Wonderland thing was...listen, it was bad, I'm sorry, but it was bad.

So this book was a wild card for me to pick up--would it be good? Would it be bad? She's capable of both!

My verdict...it was....good? Not spectacular the way my beloved Lunar Chronicles were, but...good. She's playing with superhero tropes in a way that's fun but not exactly groundbreaking (at least not for a reader who's read a lot of superhero comics, eg me). But I liked the characters (including the gay superhero dads), it was a fun read, and I'll definitely keep my eyes open for the next book.

First of all LOL I somehow didn't realize this was a murder mystery? I picked it up because I though it was about gifted teen musicians snowed in at a hotel--which it is--but also there's more! I loved the different characters and particularly the reflections on what it means to be a teen who's very good at something vs what it means to be an adult who's very good at something. I could honestly have taken or left the murder mystery but that's just my own reading preferences.

This is an Alex winner, aka a grownup book with teen appeal, and I definitely think it would appeal to a lot of teen readers, particularly musicians/performers.

This was so compelling, I stayed up too late and read it all in one day. Really nuanced and fair, plus a good primer on both the gender binary and also restorative justice concepts. Would be great for classes/book clubs looking for something to discuss.

Aw yeah this is my JAM! I grew up loving the Little House books but as an adult I have come to realize that they are #problematicfaves and yet...still compelling. This book digs up a lot of details about how Laura Ingalls Wilder's childhood was even MORE intense and also even MORE problematic than it's depicted in the books. But where things REALLY go off the rails is with her daughter, Rose Wilder Lane. I've read a fair amount of other books/articles about Laura Ingalls Wilder so I was definitely aware that Rose had helped her mother edit the books, and also that she was a libertarian and had influenced the stories to make the pioneers seem more self-reliant and less desperately in need of government handouts (which they definitely 500% needed) but like, omg, what a bonkers woman. (And it seems like, though Fraser correctly doesn't speculate on a diagnosis, that she was suffering from some untreated mental illness?) The whole time I was reading this I kept yelling aloud at my roommate new outrageous things Rose Wilder Lane did.

Highly recommended for adult Little House fans!

THIS BOOK WAS GOOD AS HELL. WHEN WILL THERE BE A SEQUEL PLZ.

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I just re-read this in the wake of [b:Akata Warrior|18746776|Akata Warrior (Akata Witch, #2)|Nnedi Okorafor|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1484628903s/18746776.jpg|26630088] and would like to report that it is still good as hell.

Eh I think...no matter who was writing Captain Marvel, the first volume post-Civil War II was going to be a struggle, because that ~event~ left Carol with a lot of garbage to clean up. I liked seeing Carol's PTSD and seeing her trying to emotionally recover from that, especially trying to repair her friendships. I wish it had been able to lean a little more into those emotional beats and less into alien nonsense.

I also feel like the storyline about a gross show being based on Carol's life could have been fun? (Although also like...previously done on Agent Carter, but whatever) But that seems like it died out?

Anyway...this is fine.....I'm hoping future issues can get closer to the Carol Danvers of my heart.