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I LOVED this book. Series endings are hard to do. There are always so many threads to tie up and so many character archs to follow. The Newsflesh series was a particularly complicated story. To say that Mira Grant successfully tied up this series would be a severe understatement. This was the perfect ending. Not only was it the best book in the series, but it was the best imaginable ending. It gave me everything I didn't realize I wanted and so much more. This book was full of so many twists I never saw anything coming ever.
I loved this, plain and simple. What a fantastic trilogy.

I love this run! Loki has always been a favorite of mine, but I love this edition better than most! Young Loki struggling with good and evil is absolutely fascinating. I realized I never finished it before so it was only half a re-read for me, and now I can't wait to get the next volume and see what happens next. It is definitely a weird story, seeped in deep Norse mythology, and just general strangeness. It is funny and moving and freaky. I love it.

This was the book I've been reading with my nephew and niece for some time now. We finished it! It was wonderful. It captivated the kids (ages 12 and 9), and was really perfect for that age range. I also just loved it myself. A really impressive first novel!

It's incredibly clear to me why this is considered a classic. Absolutely amazing story and fascinating take of characters

I feel like I wanted this to go further, but it was a lovely short read about failure and healing

This book is absolutely heart breaking. Not for sensitive readers, but absolutely worth it if you can hang on until the absolutely fantastic ending.

The unbecoming of Mara Dyer was delightfully grim and fascinating. I loved the psychological aspects. The characters often took me off guard in so many unexpected ways, and I loved that about them. I was especially fond of Mara's family and friends. Very well written! I can't wait to read the next installment.

Spoilers:
Can't believe how much I hated Noah at first.
And how wrong I was.
Oops! He ended up rocking!

I love Faith Erin Hicks so much. Her art is amazing and her stories are always full of such heart. I related to this lead so much, being that I was also a homeschooled girl with three older brothers, and the story had me right away. My only complaint? I really wanted more out of the ending. SO MUCH MORE. Sequel? Please?

I loved this book so much! I can't believe how hard it was to predict while still being a faithful reimagining of Cinderella. I'm starting number 2 immediately

I read this book while traveling in China. It was a pretty good distraction for plane rides and tired late nights. It was a solidly writer story with no glaring flaws. It was also a very easy read and innocent, so it is good for younger readers. Personally, I just wasn't crazy about it. The story felt familiar to the point of being unoriginal. I think mainly it just lacked depth. Overall, a good distraction but I would say there are better options out there in the contemporary young adult romance genre.

Sooo good! Exactly the Avengers fun I've been craving. The dynamic is wonderful and I love this mix of heroes

So many thoughts! I will have to come back and review this when homework is lighter.

I reread this book with my nephew, which was a fun experience all around. He loved it and I got to go on a nostalgic trip. I absolutely adored this book and this series as a child, but I haven't reread them since until now.
I definitely saw more of the flaws this time. It feels like a first novel in a lot of ways, and the plot overshadows the characters. Sometimes that may not be a flaw, but personally, I lean toward character driven books more than plot driven books.
There were also some lines that were rather sexist, which interestingly doesn't show up in the later books I've reread. The female characters greatly improve after this book.
Still, all that in mind, it was a wonderful children's novel and such a beautiful world of fiction.

This book is unbelievable and yet true, but it is also not widely available. I found it in a little used bookshop which wonderfully had a Nautical section (I adore this shop and try to also go straight to that section when I am in town). Despite that, if you ever have the opportunity to find a copy of this autobiography, do. It is about the end of an era of windjammer (wooden sailing ships) and a young 10 year old boy who goes to sea. His life is wildly unpredictable. (Teaser: he may even be the ancestor of some foreign nobility). There is so much that is fascinating.

This book was a really fun one for me. I read my mom's copy from when it was originally published and loved it just as much as she did. A lot of books made off tv series are fairly lame and fanserving, but this one was just pure fun and really well done. I enjoyed it immensely. If you enjoyed the movie or the original show, you would enjoy.

I always love reading the adventures of the Hardy Boys. This run of the Casefiles series always cracks me up. I love how it tries both to be edgy and still really clean cut. The pure joy this series gives me cannot be given a price tag.

This book took me by surprise. I was expected a hilarious recounting of shenanigans between Nick Frost and Simon Pegg. It did contain that, and the stories of those two recounted within this book both make me laugh and make me want to be a better friend! Serious friendship goals. However, there is a lot more to Nick Frost's fascinating life than being an actor, and if you base your knowledge on him entirely by the way he acts in movies you will miss the picture of this deep, brilliant, emotionally expansive man and his surprising tales. I fully recommend it.

I have been a Nightvale fan since almost the very beginning, and I knew I would enjoy this. What I didn't know is how it would be so fantastic as to be an instant favorite. On its own, apart from the show even it is just simply a brilliant work of scifi-horror with heart. The writers used this new medium to do all the best things of the show (be hilarious, creepy, and profound) and expand it to have that much more emotion and meaning. This book was profound. It is a splash of insight. Mostly it is full of emotion. The level of emotions this story made me feel took me by surprise in a good way. I can't overstate how much I loved this. I hope they write many, many more

This was supposed to be my last book of 2015, though I didn't quite make it with that.
This book was fascinating. It is one of those that leaves you thinking, trying to sort out thoughts and feelings. I haven't decided exactly what I think of it yet honestly. It was very interesting and deep. This one is going to take some processing.

This one had some hit or miss moments for me, but overall I adored it. Whenever it's focusing on Batman without some member of the team the story ground to a halt, but much of it was the interaction I adore in this story. This is a particularly shining arch for Stephanie Brown, chronicling her brief time as Robin.

I wanted to like this one so much more than I did. I really did not like the ending, and the art style felt too cartoon-y for the tone of the book.

Love, love, love Cassie Cain as Batgirl and this volume is full of stunning art!

I love Damien ‘s intro and the fun Batfamily madness of this one. I wasn't really impressed with the excessively random filler stories between the main arch though. very odd.

It's been several days since I finished this one and I'm still not sure what I think. it was gorgeous and lyrically haunting. I responded to it emotionally. I never could predict it which I love and rarely find. I think the ending was my problem. It was incredibly unsatisfying. I'm not sure how I feel about the implications of that ending. This book also wanted to be a statement on female friendship, but ultimately tried to elevate a toxic friendship. It was cringier than expected

Delightful throwback to earlier days of comics with intentional camp and cats!