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This is a beautiful, quiet little book that ended on too bright a note for me. I'm torn, because children who are bullied do desperately need a light of hope, but from my own experience this one is a bit too sunny. There's not always a friend who swoops in with magical levels of compassion to save the day, and healing often takes far longer than it does here.

This still isn't my favorite series, but it's fun, and I'm glad that a vaguely Lovecraftian, Victorian, lesbian, killer insect ladies comic exists, so I keep reading it. Support female creators and all that.

The truly great thing about this book is that you don’t leave it feeling hopeless about all the big, shitty, unfunny things in the world. You leave it with a greater appreciation for someone who is doing a bang-up job of articulating and exposing the world’s shittiness, and with a bit more faith in the value and effectiveness of articulating and exposing that shittiness.

Full review at Belle Biblio.

I didn’t necessarily intend to read yet another Sarah MacLean book so quickly. But when I got an Edelweiss update email that mentioned that ARCs were available of her upcoming book A Scot in the Dark… and when I saw that it’s the second in a series… Well, I had no choice but to download the sequel and check the first out from the library. Right?

Full review at Belle Biblio.

My Best Friend’s Exorcism is less than 400 pages long, and it took me two weeks to get through. This shouldn’t have been the case. It’s a well-constructed book. Its premise works with familiar tropes and combines them in interesting ways. It bears similarities to The Exorcist, Heathers, and Jennifer’s Body, three of my favorite films. Every chapter is titled after an ’80s song. There’s a lot of delightful stuff going on.

Full review at Belle Biblio.