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Нежный холод by Марико Тамаки, Mariko Tamaki

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bookwormmelissa's review against another edition

2.0

Thanks to Roaring Brook Press and Netgalley for the opportunity to read and review this book prior to publication. I was interested in reading this because I like mysteries and I loved Lumberjanes. This book is about a high school boy who is killed late one night. The story is told from the point of view of the ghost of the boy, Todd, and the sister of one of his classmates, Georgia. I liked Georgia's chapters much better - the chapters told by Todd were very strange, like they were trying to accomplish too much. This could have been a better book if told from the POV of some of the other kids or even the detectives. The author also used a capital letters for emphasis quite a bit, which was distracting. There is a good LGBTQ storyline, and the mystery itself was interesting, but the writing from Todd's POV fell flat for me.

isaac_c's review against another edition

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3.0

I've enjoyed some of Mariko Tamaki's graphic novel writing, but this felt a little lackluster.
It's not bad necessarily, but it felt like I was reading a middle-grade book despite this being YA. The simplicity of its writing and structure felt at odds with the subject matter the whole way through.