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Around the Year Reading Challenge Item #38: A book about an anti-hero
This was a light read, but not shallow. It had just enough heart and smart cultural commentary to be substantive despite its sometimes breezy tone. The relationship between Blackheart and Nimona was super sweet, and any potential weirdness in the adult male/teenage girl dynamic evaporated when (view spoiler) I also liked the shameless meshing of traditional fairy tale e ...more
This was a light read, but not shallow. It had just enough heart and smart cultural commentary to be substantive despite its sometimes breezy tone. The relationship between Blackheart and Nimona was super sweet, and any potential weirdness in the adult male/teenage girl dynamic evaporated when (view spoiler) I also liked the shameless meshing of traditional fairy tale e ...more
Love, love, loved this! Sassy, shape-shifting, butt-kicking lady protagonist? Yup! Sassy, swishy, cheeky, bad guy/good guy dynamic? Uh-huh. So much hilarious? Yes! And just a heap of sweetness to boot. Wee! I need to buy my own copy, because I feel the need to get lots of young folks to read it.
My book club was reading this one, so I went for a different format than the first time around and gave the audiobook version a try. I liked the full cast recording (I always do) and I'm impressed that publishers are adapting even books that rely heavily on visual elements to audio these days. Still, I was glad I had read the graphic novel first -- I think it might have been a little hard to follow if I didn't already know the story and have the visuals in my head from the graphic novel. The voi
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Love love love love love. Absolutely delightful spin on heroes/villains and "little orphan girl lost" tropes. Hope to see more of this story!
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Such a great book. Interesting story, great art, and wonderful characters.
Jun 02, 2015
Kate McCartney
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it was amazing
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review of another edition
Shelves:
amazing-women,
teen-fiction,
graphic-novels,
adult-fiction,
friendship,
girl-power,
2015,
fantasy
Nov 15, 2015
Ehrrin
marked it as to-read
Dec 17, 2015
eb
marked it as to-read
Apr 01, 2016
Halsted Bernard
marked it as to-read
Dec 01, 2017
Laura
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Nov 02, 2018
Kaitlin
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Jan 02, 2019
Jenny
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Apr 11, 2020
Rich
marked it as to-read
