Monstress

Sunny Side Up

Even though it's one of our most popular graphic novel series, I had never looked twice at the Sunny series. That was until I read a School Library Journal article about an attempt to ban it. To my surprise, this book was funny and thoughtful. It depicts a little girl, Sunny, who is sent to spend her Summer with her grandfather because her older brother at home is dealing with substance abuse problems. I found it to be an age-appropriate narrative that would be valuable for young readers.

Princess Academy

A book I'm nostalgic for was just released as a graphic novel- so I'm taking a break from my 'regularly' scheduled dragon books to talk about it.

Monstress

Sometimes a family is a traumatized one-armed girl, the fox child that won't leave her alone, a cat, and the monster inhabiting your body that yearns for human flesh. In this episode, I talk about my favorite ongoing comic series: Monstress by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda.

Tana French

Sister: I see him everywhere... him being harry du bois My little sister tasked me with finding an Irish book for her to read, so I talked her into reading Tana French's the Dublin Murder Squad with me. In this episode I recomend her two series, Dublin Murder Squad and the Cal Hooper Trilogy, as well as her one stand-alone, The Witch Elm. These are all murder mysteries so I do my best to avoid spoilers.

Wings of Fire: The Dangerous Gift

If you recall, I had a weird fixation on Glacier- the toxic yuri IceWing queen who Darkstalker magically murdered with a racially targeted plague. Well now that she's gone we're left with the 7th best Queen (out of 8 total Queens, and I'll remind you one is a genocidal slave owner), Snowfall. Can she live up to her mother? And what's she going to do about all these weird bug dragons?