Isaiah Roby's Blog: MI Book Reviews, page 99
April 29, 2019
Gender Queer: A Memoir
“In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with strangers knowing about em. Now, Gender Queer is here. Maia’s intensely cathartic autobiography charts eir journey of self-identity, which includes the mortification and confusion of adolescent crushes, grappling with how to come out to family and society, bonding with friends over...
April 28, 2019
The Handsome Girl & Her Beautiful Boy
“Everyone assumes that Zee is a lesbian. Her classmates, her gym buddies, even her so-called best friend. So many people think that Zee likes girls, even Zee is starting to wonder. Could they be onto something?
Everyone assumes that Art is gay. They take one look at his nice clothes and his pretty face and think: well, obviously.
But there’s more to Zee and Art than anyone realizes. When Art first meets Zee, he knows he’s found someone special–someone magical. Zee may not be able to see that...
April 25, 2019
Business Cat: Hostile Takeovers
“The shocking fall and rise of the world’s richest feline executive.
After clawing his way to the top of the corporate world, Business Cat’s professional standing is secure — or is it? Following a surprise audit from the IRS and some nefarious scheming by his executive rival, a business dog named Howard, things go downhill fast. Business Cat’s exile from the C-suite isn’t always pretty — he winds up in temp jobs, alleys, foster homes, and the kennel — but it is always entertaining. Author Tom...
Trillium
“Award-winning and fan favorite comics creator Jeff Lemire spins the tale of two star-crossed loved through space in time in TRILLIUM!
It’s the year 3797, and botanist Nika Temsmith is researching a strange species on a remote science station near the outermost rim of colonized space.
It’s the year 1921, and renowned English explorer William Pike leads an expedition into the dense jungles of Peru in search of the fabled “Lost Temple of the Incas,” an elusive sanctuary said to have strange hea...
April 24, 2019
My Sister, The Serial Killer
“My Sister, the Serial Killer is a blackly comic novel about how blood is thicker – and more difficult to get out of the carpet – than water…
When Korede’s dinner is interrupted one night by a distress call from her sister, Ayoola, she knows what’s expected of her: bleach, rubber gloves, nerves of steel and a strong stomach. This’ll be the third boyfriend Ayoola’s dispatched in, quote, self-defence and the third mess that her lethal little sibling has left Korede to clear away. She should pro...
April 23, 2019
Monster Girl
“Stay and face a terrifying plague alone. Leave and face the wrath of the colonists who exiled her. A choice Evelyn may not survive.
Exiled by the colonists she was created to protect, Evelyn is finding her way through life as an outcast. It isn’t easy though. The hollow feeling of hunger never leaves. And with winter approaching, she knows things are only going to get harder.
Evelyn decides to leave Orsus; not even a beautiful alien enigma, blowing in over the western mountains of her camp,...
Doppelganger Girl
“A girl who just wants to fit in. A boy who loves her despite her past. An adventure that could tear them apart, light years from Earth.
When Evelyn woke in a lab as a ten-year-old girl, the research team said her body was a gift. She wasn’t so sure. It seemed like a cruel prank to give a girl a gangly body just in time for puberty and hormones. She felt awkward, and the would-be colonists she traveled with treated her like a science experiment gone awry. For six years she pretended not to ca...
April 22, 2019
Jane and the Exodus
“A hopeful girl with her eyes on a new world. Her stubborn brother with his heart in the slums. Only hours left to save him from exile and death.
All Jane wants is to leave unnoticed. To escape the crumbling ruins of Earth with her family and start a new life as a colonist. But bullheadedness runs heavy in Jane’s family. Her brother, Tate, won’t budge. He refuses to leave, and Jane refuses to leave without him.
Her plan is simple. Sneak away from her father’s compound. Travel to the industria...
April 21, 2019
The Handsome Girl and Her Beautiful Boy (Maddy’s Review)
By B.T. Gottfred
“Everyone assumes that Zee is a lesbian. Her classmates, her gym buddies, even her so-called best friend. So many people think that Zee likes girls, even Zee is starting to wonder. Could they be onto something?
Everyone assumes that Art is gay. They take one look at his nice clothes and his pretty face and think: well, obviously.
But there’s more to Zee and Art than anyone realizes. When Art first meets Zee, he knows he’s found someone special–someone magical. Zee may not be...
The Handsome Girl and Her Beautiful Boy
By B.T. Gottfred
“Everyone assumes that Zee is a lesbian. Her classmates, her gym buddies, even her so-called best friend. So many people think that Zee likes girls, even Zee is starting to wonder. Could they be onto something?
Everyone assumes that Art is gay. They take one look at his nice clothes and his pretty face and think: well, obviously.
But there’s more to Zee and Art than anyone realizes. When Art first meets Zee, he knows he’s found someone special–someone magical. Zee may not be...
