shidoburrito's Reviews (1.54k)

Ack, a literal cliff hanger!

Ah! The perfect book for me to read right now as I await my trip to Japan right after Halloween! Nice how the POV is the ghost, and definitely kept my interest. NOW I can read book two, as I had accidentally started with that and was kinda confused for a while.
Oh yeah! I was also going to add that this book was a very good teen readalike for Dexter! With the main character being a vengeful ghost and all, it felt a lot like Dexter (if Dexter was a vengeful, Japanese, ghost) what with killing child murderers.

Ms. Telgemeier does it again with another great comic book filled with great characters and a deep message, despite the fact younger readers can read this too. Also, a great book with main characters that aren't white and a wonderful tale filled with Hispanic mythology and festivals. And you can't celebrate the day of the dead without first trying to understand death, which is always looming over the main character and her little sister. Both Cat and her sister have different thoughts and different reactions to death, so what do they do when they move to a place where ghosts can actually interact with the living one night of the year?

I listened to this as an audio book. While jetlagged. In Japan. I don't know how much I retained.

This graphic novel was recommended to me by someone who said it was really scary. I don't know about scary, but it's definitely a great read if you like teenage survival on an alien planet!

Hooray! Wingaling Dragons! Great character development!

What a dark book! Wonderful, but dark. Definitely for older teens as there is plenty of cursing and teens having sex, but I think it is a very interesting take on feminism (I guess? Is that the label I want to give it?).

Take Alex, the main character of 3 POV we get in this book. She leads a dark life with dark intentions (think Dexter, really). How did she get to be this way? She's always had the darkness and anger in her blood (as her father called her his "firecracker"), but it takes the rape and brutal murder of her sister for this darkness to find a form and a victim. View of womanhood through Alex: brutal, efficient, capable of anything a man can do, and unfortunately has prepared herself for the inevitable brutality all men treat her gender with.

Then there's Peekay, your run-of-the-mill high schooler with none of these terrible experiences in her life to harden or prepare her. In her life there's the grade slut who has just taken away her only boyfriend she's ever had. Her parents are great and understanding, has recently become friends with her coworker at the animal shelter, Alex, who is smart and protective.View of womanhood through Peekay: sweet, naive, unaware, a good friend, a good target.

The third POV is a male, Jack, and I hope (wish) his POV towards females is exaggerated, as I viewed him to be a fucking douche. Do men truly think with their dicks as much as this guy? Sure it's high school, but he falls in love with cold, abnormal Alex, spends paragraphs longing for her, oh, how he hopes she will date him! And (small spoiler), they do date, but it made me so angry how he would mention sleeping with the school slut (a childhood friend and now friend with benefits) even while still dating Alex. UGH. I had no sympathy for him whatsoever because his attitude made me SICK. View of womanhood through Jack: a friend, a lover, someone to temporarily fill the loneliness in his bed or his heart, innocent and incapable of doing horrible things.

Anyway, three different POV and one dark book about the female of the human species.

It's been a while since I started a new manga series and this is off to a good start! Funny story, I had added this to my Amazon wish list and apparently forgot about it. Then while in Japan I picked up the Japanese version thinking, "I really like the art!" and then my husband bought me the English version for Christmas! Good thing this is a good series. No yaoi hands, so that's a plus! :)

A love story with a germophobe... I LOVE it!!