Sam Walker-Schaefer

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Favorite Character: Ariel

Favorite Part: When Mikasi took the fetch from Ariel so she could live.

Thoughts: I love love LOVE these characters and this whole family!!!!! Such a unique blend of wholesome and powerful!!!!!

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Favorite Character(s): Ariel and Molly

Favorite Part: When Molly talked to Aster about why she encouraged Ariel to participate in the Jolrun.

Thoughts: This is probably my favorite book of the series!!!!! I loved all the characters and the family drama, and that ENDING!!!!!!! Absolutely lovely and accepting and just what I needed in a middlegrade graphic novel series!!!!!

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Favorite Character: Charlie

Favorite Part: When Aster works up the courage with the help of Charlie to call the "monster".

Thoughts: What a wonderful graphic novel that is Definitely a trans allegory!!!!! I loved every moment of this, and I'm excited to see what Aster and his family and friend Charlie get up to in the next book!!!!!

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Favorite Character(s): June Hudson and Tucker Minnick

Favorite Part: When June and Tucker kissed for the 3rd or 4th time section

Thoughts: Maggie has yet 2 disappoint me, I love her writing so SO MUCH!!!!! Overall such a DELIGHTFUL historical fiction with fantasy aspects!!!!!

This was pretty good, though the first half was better than the second half. Still, there were lots of good lines that I liked!!!

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Favorite Character: Ethan Severin

Favorite Part: When Ethan and Ophelia almost have an intimate moment when they are all about to head to the towers to see if that helps.

Thoughts: I LOVED this, though I do wish it had been slightly longer at the end to explain some things more, like how they got the aliens out of all of them, and what the future is going to look like for them. Overall though, what a FANTASTIC sci-fi horror story!!!!! S. A. Barnes is making more enjoy sci-fi more and more, a genre I thought I'd never be able to do more then scratch fhe surface of!!!!!

So I can't rate this like I do fiction books, but this definitely deserves to be talked about again and again and again. Especially for us "white" people, I think every person who considers themselves "white" needs to read this at least twice (I myself plan on reading it again soon, not this year but maybe next, so I can redigest everything it's saying). This, as Toni Morrison said, "is required reading." It shows just how much black people in America struggle, and all the fears and burdens they struggle with. All in all, an absolutely incredible read!!!

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Favorite Character: Angela the Witch

Favorite Part: Angela's Memoir, just getting to know her better and hearing her thoughts!

Thoughts: This was such a wonderful collection of short stories, featuring some of my favorite characters from the main series! Plus, the ending was really heartening!

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Favorite Character: Frederica

Favorite Part: Where Frederica gets to go back to Churchill while her mother (if we can call her that) was still in London.

Thoughts: While not the best of Austen's work, certainly not the worst either!!! I loved the epistolary style of the book, and most of the characters were delightful!!! The biggest issue I have is how short it is, I would've liked a slightly longer story!!!

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Favorite Character: Jess (Jessa)

Favorite Part: When Nessie comes out of the lake but she isn't evil, just sweet!

Thoughts: This was an INCREDIBLE twist on your classic werewolf story, very imaginative and original!!! I'll definitely be reading more of Nat Cassidy's books in the future!!!

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Favorite Character: Dr. Mensah

Favorite Part: When Dr. Mensah asked Murderbot if it wanted to join them in the crew area and it looked so horrified that she immediately was like "Or not".

Thoughts: What a delightful novella!!! It's rare to find a novella that world builds so incredibly well and has such wonderful characters at the same time!!! I really enjoyed this and once I'm more stable I plan on buying the rest of them!!!

This had so much potential but the characters (mainly Julian) just were not it.

DNF at page 128, I just don't like any of the characters and I don't care what happens to them.

This is more of a 3 1/2 stars but I'm rounding up!!!

DNF at 44%. This isn't a bad book but it's not engaging enough for me.

This is really more of a 4.5 but it was so good!!!!!!!!!!

DNF at 56%. As much as I desperately wanted to Love this, especially as someone who's also disabled (albeit in a different way), sadly the writing just wasn't there. It got to the point that I dreaded reading it. The pacing was off and there was a lot of unnecessary details. I truly did want this to be a new favorite, but unfortunately this just wasn't for me.

This was adorable, informative (especially after the actual story) and a very easy and fun read!!!!!

DNF @ pg 69

This is a decent book, however it's simply not meant for me.

Everything I've read from this author is SUCH a fucking banger!!!!!!!!!!! I absolutely adore his writing!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ngl the forced marriage part knocked a full star off of this for me. After that I just skimmed until I reached the end.

This is really more of a 3 1/2 star read, especially since I had guessed the plot twist loooong before it was revealed, but it ended really well!!!!!

It's always hard to rate anthologies because there are always stories I don't like and stories I do. However, this had way more 5 star stories than not, so I'm going with 5 stars!!!!! Especially since some of them have stuck with me

This was a liiiiiiittle slow in the middle, especially will all the back and forth. However, it doesn't deserve all of the low ratings it's gotten!!!!!! This has plenty of dark humor!!!!! I'm excited for the next book!!!!!!

This started off so strongly but got meh at about 50%. The writing isn't bad per say, but it could use some work.