Isaiah Roby's Blog: MI Book Reviews, page 138

Epic Fail

“This book tells a tough but realistic story about teen relationships and sexual assault and how social media plays a role in magnifying its impact.

In suburban Vancouver, in a multiracial mixed-income neighbourhood, three 14-year-old friends, a boy and two girls, go to a party organized by the boy’s older brother. One of the girls, who comes from a mixed-race Aboriginal/Caucasian family of lower socio-economic standing, is raped, which has very serious consequences on her mental health.

Two...

Batwoman: vol 1-6

“As a part of the acclaimed DC Comics—The New 52 event of September 2011, Batwoman’s new series finally begins! The creative team of J.H. Williams III and W. Haden Blackman launch the ongoing Batwoman series, as Batwoman (a.ka. Kate Kane) faces deadly new challenges in her war against Gotham City’s underworld–and new trials in her personal life.Who or what is stealing children from the barrio, and for what vile purpose? Will Kate train her cousin, Bette Kane (a.k.a. Flamebird), as her new sid...

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

By Stephen Chbosky

The critically acclaimed debut novel from Stephen Chbosky, Perks follows observant “wallflower” Charlie as he charts a course through the strange world between adolescence and adulthood. First dates, family drama, and new friends. Sex, drugs, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Devastating loss, young love, and life on the fringes. Caught between trying to live his life and trying to run from it, Charlie must learn to navigate those wild and poignant roller-coaster days know...

Trolled

“All Andy can think about is getting a chance to make the national swim team. He practises constantly to get his swim time down and he’s saving money to pay the competition fees by working part-time at a comic book store. When a video of him flutterboard surfing makes him famous online, he uses the opportunity to crowdfund his trip to nationals.

But all that attention turns bad when he is convinced to prank a promising female swimmer on camera. Suddenly, Andy gets banned from the nationals, g...

Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Lost Innocence, Modern-Day Slavery and Transformation

“Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Lost Innocence, Modern-Day Slavery and Transformation by author and human trafficking advocate, Barbara Amaya. Her story starts at the tender age of 12 when she was forced into the world of human trafficking and chronicles the ten plus years she spent being sold on the streets of Washington D.C. and New York City. Her tragic reality didn’t end at being a victim. Amaya was a heroin addict and spent time in and out of prisons during this period of time, but these hea...

Comics for a Strange World

“Absurd comics for our absurd times, from the artist behind the wildly popular webcomic Poorly Drawn Lines.

In his follow up to the New York Times bestselling Poorly Drawn Lines, beloved webcomic artist Reza Farazmand returns with a new collection of comics that hilariously skewers our modern age. Comics for a Strange World takes readers through time, space, and alternate realities, reuniting fans with favorite characters and presenting them with even more bizarre scenarios. A child is arres...

The Catcher in The Rye

By J.D. Salinger

The hero-narrator of The Catcher in the Rye is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days. The boy himself is at once too simple and too complex for us to make any final comment about him or his story. Perhaps the safest thing we can say about Holden is that he was born in the wo...

Bizenghast, Book 8

By M. Alice Le Grow

A violent last stand is about to commence in the city of Bizenghast between Dinah and Mephohetka. Can Dinah hold her own against this powerfully twisted demon, or will she, like all the others, be sucked into the nightmare?

Dinah, a clinically insane protagonist living in an abandoned mill town with her sociopathic Aunt, teams up with the only other child in town to dispel the horrors they find down in the long-lost Sunken Mausoleum. Challenged by a terrible specter to fre...

To Be Real: Telling the Truth and Changing the Face of Feminism

Edited and Introduction by Rebecca Walker

Determined to extend the boundaries of feminism to embrace social, political, and economic equality for all humanity, these twenty-one exciting young activists and thinkers recast the concepts of feminism to reflect their own personal experiences and beliefs. Inspired by activist and writer Rebecca Walker, they speak out, challenging many of their assumptions about the women’s movement and demanding that readers recognize a new relationship between th...

Dirty Words

“If you’re going to write dirty stories about your neighbors, don’t give them tiny c*cks.
A standalone romance with an HEA ending and no cliffhangers.

Love thy neighbors? No way. Never going to happen.

Ethan Burke and Lars Johansen are chiseled male perfection, with their cocky smiles, bulging biceps and washboard abs.

They’re also rich, arrogant jerks. Ugh.

I’m supposed to swoon over their panty-melting smiles, but I refuse to get the memo. After we feud over a parking spot, I write them int...