shidoburrito's Reviews (1.54k)

A very adorable graphic novel for girls of all ages and all races. A seriously wonderful book!

This series continues to be wonderful!

Ugh, I'm done. I was disappointed with this teen X Files novel too, and I was expecting much more since I've read and enjoyed Maberry's Rot and Ruin series. This suffers from the same problems as the Mulder teen novel did: unrealistic Scully, unrealistic parents, beating us about the head with the obvious, treating the reader as a dumb-dumb. And that's going to be most of your audience, guys, is not teens, even though you made these to try and get a newer generation interested in the X Files, it will mostly be adults reading these! Either way, I'm super disappointed. Sad face :(

Aw, what a great story. I think I would put this as a book about overcoming grief and losing a sibling above labeling it as a coming-of-age gay teen novel. It's so much more than all that as Quinn learns more about his sister as a person than as himself becoming an adult and turning 17.

If you read this book and find yourself kind of lagging, confused, and unsure if you want to continue, please stick with it. I'm really glad I did! There are not too many books out there for teens about schizophrenia and this one certainly dives into it with a style of writing that will certainly make your brain hurt at times. I was often reminded of those times at night when I was half asleep and would be awake-dreaming, seeing things in my room that were obviously not there, but made perfect sense to me as to why a girl was playing hide-n-go Chelsea (I swear, that's what it was called) in my wardrobe. The brain is weird, and sometimes it is weird even when someone is perfectly awake and healthy.

Hooray for gender non-conformity! A great read for anyone, but especially teen girls who don't feel they fit in, or really want to define themselves, as a certain gender. Poor Liz, can't find a happy medium with any crowd. Girls shun her because she's too boyish. Boys shun her because she's a girl. Why do people even care how she dresses? Society. Society seems to care and enforce gender roles and stereotypes. Anyway, I'm rambling. It was a nice graphic novel with some wonderful points about feminism and gender.

Every time I read these books I get so tired of the same old love triangle. I have to remind myself, "Angie, this is published by Harlequin Teen, of course it's main theme is frustrating teen romance." And I just can't get behind Riley. I guess I don't care about the rebellious jerk type of guy? Again, I must remind myself this is for teens, who think it's glamorous when the guy is rebellious and a jerk to everyone, including you. Yeah, a real swoon-worthy, dragon-guy.

Romance aside, I really am digging the story though. What keeps me going is the whole fight between St. George and Talon and how the crew is going to stay alive and live to see the day humans and dragons can be nice-nice to each other.

And Dante, pfff, you're boring, son.

Am I the only one seeing themes that can relate to today? Drug dependence, bullying, depression, self-worth, etc. All presented through poor Yato and Yukine and Bishamon?