Blackbird Summer

The gorgeous graphics in this are the only reason why this is 2 stars and not 1. It was another confusing story and while I was interested in Nina, our main character, at first, that interest sort of fell away because (to me) she felt like she was constantly moving between emotions and character motivations a bit? And I'm not trying to sound like it's Nina's problem, because I think it was probably me that just didn't connect with the characters. At all.

As much as I didn't connect with the characters, it was also the plot that really put me off. I felt that they just shoved us into the world in like, mid-season of the series and we're forced to play catch-up with everything.

I liked the magic they showed and definitely how the magic and magical characters were shown through the illustrations. Maybe if they had more focus on the magic, I would have been more into the book?