December '17 Reviews

13 Reasons Why by Jay Asher, Review by Riya

The book is better than the TV series, because you understand a lot more about the character's motivations. It's a really good book, I cried throughout it.

Rated: 4/5





Paper Girls, Vol 1. by Brian K. Vaughan, Illustrated by Cliff Chiang and Matthew Wilson, Review by Izzy


It is beautiful. Set in the eighties, and it's all good eighties, not really played up like puffy jackets and stuff. It's about four girls who are early teens. They come across these time travelers from the future. The future is almost like a Big Brother sort of thing. They're the authoritarian Big Brothers, chasing some other people who are on the run. At the moment he girls have been transported to the early noughties and meet one of their future selves. I think it's going to involve some inter-dimensional time travel as well.

A lot of the girls speak different languages, but it's not a token thing, but you can still understand what they are saying because of how effectively they are drawn. Really memorable characters are created in pages.

Rated: 4/5 Newspapers "Fun, really nice art"

The Man in The Ceiling by Jules Feiffer, Review by Sam

There's this little kid who lives in a family of eight people. He gets neglected a lot because he doesn't do well in school and doesn't really care. He drops out in year six illegally. He stays home and spends all of his time writing comics. Then this professional comic writer dude reads one of them and they start writing them together. Most of his comics are about his dad, so he plays his dad as a character because he really likes him. His dad read the comics and doesn't respond well. That really hurts him a lot. The book is over the span of about ten years. It's really sad.

Rated: 4/5 Comics "I'm not sure why I like this book so much, I read it now for nostalgia but it's really depressing"

Find You In The Dark by Meredith Walters, Review by Nika

It's about this girl who has this really boring day to day routine. Then she meets this guy - it's a romance book. When they first meet she trips and he falls on top of her. He was really rude about it but she's still intrigued by him. He works in an antique store that she likes to go to. The next time they meet he's really nice and she finds out that he is bipolar. Whenever she talks to a guy he gets really rude and starts throwing things, and then he'll start crying. His parents don't really support him, he's kind of the family disgrace. You want to like him, but with all the stuff he does it's hard. I made me cry a lot.

Rated: 4/5 Breakups "Really good. Well written. Can be graphic"


Dealing with Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede, Review by Wei Li
The genre of this book is historical fantasy and it's sort of like a cross between Coraline and Harry Potter. The language is simple, but it's posh and British. There a princess who doesn't want to be a princess. It's not teen drama material or anything, she says she doesn't want to deal with all the etiquette and dance lessons, she wants to go and learn magic and fight dragons. Very Tamora Pierce. So she's been married of to this random prince with whom she feels a mutual hatred. So she runs away. She takes advice from talking frog, (because that's what princesses do) and she ends up in a cave full of dragons...

Rated: 4/5 Jars of Unicorn Water "Crazy awesome. It empowers women. It's a little slow at times because of the writing style"

Fifty Shades of Grey by E. L. James, Review by Henrietta

This book isn't very good on a lot of levels. Normally I would never read this in a hundred years. I've only read a little bit so far. What I actually find interesting is her writing. I really like the style of it so far. I like the main character. She's never interested in anyone, she hates coffee but then she gets corrupted by this man who has a psychological issue. That's what I find interesting about it. I don't really want to know about the rest of it. The plot line has horrible abusive material in it, but the writing is decent.

Rated: 2.5/5 Helicopters "The writing is easy to follow, it's intriguing, there's always something going on"