Though it starts out spookily and has some pretty seriously Goosebumps-y moments, Magic Elizabeth is actually a pretty sweet tale of a girl who goes to visit with her scary aunt in her scary house -- and finds herself on a quest for a missing doll, and realizes that her aunt and the house might not be so scary after all.

These are bizarre and unrealistic yet somehow incredibly lifelike stories. They're compelling and weird and fascinating. The kind of thing that should be read twice, years apart, and will feel like a different book entirely.

This book is a gem. I wish every book I read had such biting and sharp prose, such heart, such incredible characters.

I have no knowledge of Wonder Woman beyond the amazing Gal Godot movie that just came out, and it didn't matter. This book is enjoyable without comic knowledge, and presumably with, as well.

The art was beautiful. I think I would have gotten more out of the story if I was more familiar with the DC World. I loved the idea of killing a superhero right at the beginning of the book, but I didn't like that the focus of the story was on figuring out the past. It felt very static. The message of non-violence was surprising and interesting.

This book is impossibly, horrendously, earth-shatteringly bad. I am truly in awe of how bad it is.

I can't even really tell you what this is about because the writing was so bad it was difficult to tell what was happening. I am pretty sure a psycho kid from a futuristic wasteland tried to kill himself, ended up in some weird purgatory where a terrifying jellyfish climbed into his brain and insisted it was a god and took him on adventures, and then woke back up in his real world and killed everyone except for one kid who he mutilated mentally, proving that he was a terrible person all along.

I received this for free at Electric Forest. I feel bad it was printed on real paper.

This was really fun! I liked that Quincie was a full-on vampire, and the parenting of Kieren's parents was entertaining. I was so happy to have Nora and Freddy and even Harrison back, and was glad that Zachary was less pathetic in this volume. I loved the way Smith, if you'll forgive the pun, revamped the Dracula story for a solidly threatening villain.

There's nothing I can say that hasn't already been said, and by more eloquent people than myself. But I'll try anyway. This book is excellent. Even setting aside its cultural relevance and timeliness, this book is funny, heart-warming, honest, charming, and extremely well-written. It's characters feel so real and the pacing is flawless.

But it is also shining a light on the things we don't want to admit to ourselves when we watch the news (okay, okay, when we check Twitter). It feels very modern, and while the plot is predictable, it is only predictable because we've heard this story so many times already.

This book isn't a call to action that you can say you don't have time or the ability for-- it's a call to pay attention to the people around you and your own prejudices. It asks you to open your eyes and speak up. It's a call to rebuild.