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What an insane graphic novel. I initially picked this up because of the cover and title, thinking it was either a juvenile or middle grade book.
NOPE.
This is at least a YA graphic novel, if not adult. The pictures are stunning, the story is dark, and overall, there aren't many words on the page. The art style coupled with classic comic panel formats was absolutely beautiful and kept the pace in this silent book moving steadily. I loved the unique way some of the larger spreads were broken up or spaced to create visual interest on the page.
I thought the story was thought-provoking. I wish there were slightly more breadcrumbs leading to the major twist of the story (and what a twist it was!). The intentional choice to use Earth as the Haven was stunning. I loved all of the life captured in the panels depicting Earth. Both the extraordinary and mundane became so meaningful.
The ending shocked me. I was dumbfounded by the conclusion of this. It didn't leave me wanting more in the sense of a sequel, but I wish that we saw the consequences a bit more of the final climax. After the big moment, the story wraps quickly, likely because there is only one known character left. I think, because of the nature of the story, that perhaps my issue is I no longer rooted for the protagonist of the story and wanted a final moment without peace.
No complaints though. Wonderful work of art.
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Moon Deer
Yoann Kavege
Moon Deer est un roman graphique qui nous entraĂźne Ă travers les galaxies. On vous invite pour un voyage cosmique avec ce premier roman graphique du talentueux Yoann Kavege qui ouvre un nouveau chapitre de Bubble Ă©ditions.
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The Trouble with Heroes
Kate Messner
Bestselling and award-winning author Kate Messner takes readers on a heart-filling journey as a boy finds his path to healing.One summer.46 mountain peaks.A second chance to make things right.Finn Connelly is nothing like his dad, a star athlete and firefighter hero who always ran toward danger until he died two years ago. Finn's about to fail seventh grade and has never made headlines . . . until now.Caught on camera vandalizing a cemetery, he's in big trouble for kicking down some dead old lady's headstone. But it turns out that grave belongs to a legendary local mountain climber, and her daughter makes Finn an unusual climb all forty-six Adirondack High Peaks with her dead mother's dog, and they can call it even.In a wild three months of misadventures, mountain mud, and unexpected mentors, Finn begins to find his way on the trails. At the top of each peak, he can see for miles and slowly begins to understand more about himself and his dad. But the mountains don't care about any of that, and as the clock ticks down to September, they have more surprises in store. Finn's final summit challenge may be more than even a hero can face.
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The Trouble with Heroes
Kate Messner
Bestselling and award-winning author Kate Messner takes readers on a heart-filling journey as a boy finds his path to healing.One summer.46 mountain peaks.A second chance to make things right.Finn Connelly is nothing like his dad, a star athlete and firefighter hero who always ran toward danger until he died two years ago. Finn's about to fail seventh grade and has never made headlines . . . until now.Caught on camera vandalizing a cemetery, he's in big trouble for kicking down some dead old lady's headstone. But it turns out that grave belongs to a legendary local mountain climber, and her daughter makes Finn an unusual climb all forty-six Adirondack High Peaks with her dead mother's dog, and they can call it even.In a wild three months of misadventures, mountain mud, and unexpected mentors, Finn begins to find his way on the trails. At the top of each peak, he can see for miles and slowly begins to understand more about himself and his dad. But the mountains don't care about any of that, and as the clock ticks down to September, they have more surprises in store. Finn's final summit challenge may be more than even a hero can face.
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All the Blues in the Sky
Renée Watson
# 1 New York Times bestselling and Newbery Honor author Renée Watson explores friendship, loss, and life with grief in this poignant new novel in verse and vignettes. Sage's thirteenth birthday was supposed to be about movies and treats, staying up late with her best friend and watching the sunrise together. Instead, it was the day her best friend died. WIthout the person she had to hold her secrets and dream with, Sage is lost. In a counseling group with other girls who have lost someone close to them, she learns that not all losses are the same, and healing isn't predictable. There is sadness, loneliness, anxiety, guilt, pain, love. And even as Sage grieves, new, good things enter her life -- and she just may find a way to know that she can feel it all.In accessible, engaging verse and prose, this is an important story of a girl's journey to heal, grow, and forgive herself. To read it is to see how many shades there are in grief, and to know that someone understands.
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All the Blues in the Sky
Renée Watson
# 1 New York Times bestselling and Newbery Honor author Renée Watson explores friendship, loss, and life with grief in this poignant new novel in verse and vignettes. Sage's thirteenth birthday was supposed to be about movies and treats, staying up late with her best friend and watching the sunrise together. Instead, it was the day her best friend died. WIthout the person she had to hold her secrets and dream with, Sage is lost. In a counseling group with other girls who have lost someone close to them, she learns that not all losses are the same, and healing isn't predictable. There is sadness, loneliness, anxiety, guilt, pain, love. And even as Sage grieves, new, good things enter her life -- and she just may find a way to know that she can feel it all.In accessible, engaging verse and prose, this is an important story of a girl's journey to heal, grow, and forgive herself. To read it is to see how many shades there are in grief, and to know that someone understands.
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Van Veen makes me sick every time I read her books. The way she goes for the grossest descriptions of the simplest things astounds me. 5/5
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Bone of My Bone
Johanna van Veen
Bram Stoker Awardânominee and USA Today bestseller Johanna van Veen unveils a sapphic folk-horror tour de forceâperfect for fans of The VVitch and The Salt Grows Heavy. A skull's grin is eternalâŠ
The year is 1635.
Sister Ursula, a young nun fleeing the ruins of her convent, and Elsebeth, a sharp-witted peasant, escape a band of marauding soldiers and disappear into the Bavarian forest. War scorches the land, and no one survives it alone. Amid the devastation, they find something in the arms of a dying the gilded skull of a saint.
It is said that if you reunite the saint's skull with her body, a wish will be granted. Desperate for salvation, and each with secret desires of their own, Ursula and Elsebeth follow a ragged map across the blighted countryside. But darkness follows them. A necromancer, drawn to the relic's power. The saint herself, whispering at night. And as the lines between blessing and curse blur, the women must face a harrowing the magic they seek comes at a cost.
At the journey's end, they'll face an impossible choiceâone that could tear apart everything they know⊠or bind them to each other forever.
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Bone of My Bone
Johanna van Veen
Bram Stoker Awardânominee and USA Today bestseller Johanna van Veen unveils a sapphic folk-horror tour de forceâperfect for fans of The VVitch and The Salt Grows Heavy. A skull's grin is eternalâŠ
The year is 1635.
Sister Ursula, a young nun fleeing the ruins of her convent, and Elsebeth, a sharp-witted peasant, escape a band of marauding soldiers and disappear into the Bavarian forest. War scorches the land, and no one survives it alone. Amid the devastation, they find something in the arms of a dying the gilded skull of a saint.
It is said that if you reunite the saint's skull with her body, a wish will be granted. Desperate for salvation, and each with secret desires of their own, Ursula and Elsebeth follow a ragged map across the blighted countryside. But darkness follows them. A necromancer, drawn to the relic's power. The saint herself, whispering at night. And as the lines between blessing and curse blur, the women must face a harrowing the magic they seek comes at a cost.
At the journey's end, they'll face an impossible choiceâone that could tear apart everything they know⊠or bind them to each other forever.
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What the actual fuck did I read?
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The Library at Hellebore
Cassandra Khaw
A deeply dark academia novel from USA Today bestselling author Cassandra Khaw, perfect for fans of A Deadly Education and The Atlas Six who are hungry for something a little more diabolical.The Hellebore Technical Institute for the Gifted is the premier academy for the dangerously the Anti-Christs and Ragnaroks, the world-eaters and apocalypse-makers.Hellebore promises redemption, acceptance, and a normal life after graduation. At least, thatâs what Alessa Li is told when sheâs kidnapped and forcibly enrolled. But thereâs more to Hellebore than meets the eye. On graduation day, the faculty go on a ravenous rampage, feasting on Alessaâs class. Only Alessa and a group of her classmates escape the carnage. Trapped in the schoolâs library, they must offer a human sacrifice every night, or else the faculty will break down the door and kill everyone.Can they band together and survive, or will the faculty eat its fill?Also by Cassandra Khaw:The Salt Grows HeavyNothing But Blackened TeethA Song for QuietHammers on BoneThe Dead Take the A Train (co-written with Richard Kadrey)At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
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The Library at Hellebore
Cassandra Khaw
A deeply dark academia novel from USA Today bestselling author Cassandra Khaw, perfect for fans of A Deadly Education and The Atlas Six who are hungry for something a little more diabolical.The Hellebore Technical Institute for the Gifted is the premier academy for the dangerously the Anti-Christs and Ragnaroks, the world-eaters and apocalypse-makers.Hellebore promises redemption, acceptance, and a normal life after graduation. At least, thatâs what Alessa Li is told when sheâs kidnapped and forcibly enrolled. But thereâs more to Hellebore than meets the eye. On graduation day, the faculty go on a ravenous rampage, feasting on Alessaâs class. Only Alessa and a group of her classmates escape the carnage. Trapped in the schoolâs library, they must offer a human sacrifice every night, or else the faculty will break down the door and kill everyone.Can they band together and survive, or will the faculty eat its fill?Also by Cassandra Khaw:The Salt Grows HeavyNothing But Blackened TeethA Song for QuietHammers on BoneThe Dead Take the A Train (co-written with Richard Kadrey)At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
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The Deep
Rivers Solomon
The water-breathing descendants of African slave women tossed overboard have built their own underwater societyâand must reclaim the memories of their past to shape their future in this brilliantly imaginative novella inspired by the Hugo Award nominated song âThe Deepâ from Daveed Diggsâ rap group Clipping.Yetu holds the memories for her peopleâwater-dwelling descendants of pregnant African slave women thrown overboard by slave ownersâwho live idyllic lives in the deep. Their past, too traumatic to be remembered regularly, is forgotten by everyone, save oneâthe historian. This demanding role has been bestowed on Yetu.Yetu remembers for everyone, and the memories, painful and wonderful, traumatic and terrible and miraculous, are destroying her. And so, she flees to the surface, escaping the memories, the expectations, and the responsibilitiesâand discovers a world her people left behind long ago.Yetu will learn more than she ever expected to about her own pastâand about the future of her people. If they are all to survive, theyâll need to reclaim the memories, reclaim their identityâand own who they really are.Inspired by a song produced by the rap group Clipping for the This American Life episode âWe Are In The Future,â The Deep is vividly original and uniquely affecting.
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Kind of wish the first book had been a standalone, just longer to include some of what's in this book. Areas of this felt drawn out to me.
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Hearts That Cut (Threads That Bind, #2)
Kika Hatzopoulou
In this heart-pounding, much-anticipated sequel to Threads That Bind, Io will face threats even more dangerous and players even more powerful as she discovers what it will mean to followâor defyâher fate.Itâs been five weeks since Io left Alante to follow the golden thread, and sheâs no closer to finding the god on the other end. She spends her days in constant, grueling travel and her nights worrying over the fate-thread she shares with Edeiâwhich seems to be fraying. Making matters worse, she and Bianca soon realize that their only lead has shaken them off, snapped the golden thread, and disappeared.But not before Io gathers some crucial clues. Her investigation leads her to a new mystery, a rash of sibling disappearances across the Wastelands that seems to be connected to the murders in Alante. And all signs point to Nanzy, the golden city, as the center of the whole conspiracy.As Io and Bianca make their way to Nanzy, they face powerful enemies, find allies new and old, and uncover a horrifying plot that traces back centuries. The more Io learns, the more she begins to suspect that the future of the world may truly rest on her shoulders. But she will have to determine how much of the future is her choiceâand how much is simply her fate.
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I'm sobbing Ashley đ
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The Someday Garden
Ashley Poston
The new head gardener at the enchanting Lilymoor House stumbles upon a secret garden . . . with a mysterious man trapped inside, in the next magical novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Sounds Like Love and The Seven Year Slip.
When Sophie Drear plans her escape to coastal Maine for the summerâfor a temporary job revitalizing the storied grounds at Lilymoor Houseâshe doesnât expect to fall in love.
But she does: With the beguiling land, the fragrant flowers, and the towering hedge maze. With the quirky staff and the enigmatic woman who owns the place.
And then, the door appears. Never in the same place twice, it leads her to a secret, and unfinished, garden with a frustrated thundercloud of a man trapped inside.
This mysterious garden is not the only sign that the future of Lilymoor is unstable: the foliage resists Sophieâs careful nurturing, vines threaten to strangle the hedges, and the manorâs owner has wild ideas about who will take over when she retiresâincluding her inconveniently attractive nephew who is also there just for the summer.
Despite herself, Sophie has come to care for the residents of Lilymoor just as much as she cares for its grounds. With the help of one man on the outside of the secret garden, and one man on the inside, she might be the only person who can figure out exactly what Lilymoor needs to bloom once more.
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Hearts That Cut (Threads That Bind, #2)
Kika Hatzopoulou
In this heart-pounding, much-anticipated sequel to Threads That Bind, Io will face threats even more dangerous and players even more powerful as she discovers what it will mean to followâor defyâher fate.Itâs been five weeks since Io left Alante to follow the golden thread, and sheâs no closer to finding the god on the other end. She spends her days in constant, grueling travel and her nights worrying over the fate-thread she shares with Edeiâwhich seems to be fraying. Making matters worse, she and Bianca soon realize that their only lead has shaken them off, snapped the golden thread, and disappeared.But not before Io gathers some crucial clues. Her investigation leads her to a new mystery, a rash of sibling disappearances across the Wastelands that seems to be connected to the murders in Alante. And all signs point to Nanzy, the golden city, as the center of the whole conspiracy.As Io and Bianca make their way to Nanzy, they face powerful enemies, find allies new and old, and uncover a horrifying plot that traces back centuries. The more Io learns, the more she begins to suspect that the future of the world may truly rest on her shoulders. But she will have to determine how much of the future is her choiceâand how much is simply her fate.
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