pages_and_procrastination's Reviews (1.6k)

Blackbird #1

Fiona Staples, Sam Humphries, Jen Bartel

adventurous mysterious fast-paced

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I found this browsing on hoopla, and I have to say I loved it!

Goldie Vance, Vol. 4

Hope Larson, Elle Power, Sarah Stern, Jackie Ball

adventurous lighthearted mysterious fast-paced

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I Am Alfonso Jones

Tony Medina

challenging sad fast-paced

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

I think with what the author was trying to do, this would have been better as a novel. While I did not like this as much as I would have liked, the story is important, it adds to the conversation. There were moments that irritated me because I thought that they were being added only as fuel. Some of those things were just fuel. But, unfortunately, there were moments that were actually true- they really did happen.

The Sand Warrior

Alexis Siegel, Mark Siegel

adventurous medium-paced

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

This was okay. I’m still not sure what’s going on. Probably won’t continue with this

The Vanishing Girl

Josephine Ruby

lighthearted mysterious fast-paced

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

One More for Christmas

Sarah Morgan

emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted medium-paced

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

*I was given a digital galley of this title, free, in exchange for my honest opinion.
Morgan has a way of pulling you into her stories. It's combination of making her characters come to life, flawed and imperfect as if they were real people and placing the story in a setting that makes you wish you could be there. Every Morgan book I've read so far have been Christmas-themed. And she makes it s magical and makes me even more excited about the upcoming holidays. I also love the way she handles romances. While it's not usually the main focus of the story, she writes it in such a way that you're rooting for it even when the odds are against it. One thing that usually bothers me is the rapidly falling in love the at happens frequently in romances/contemporaries.. It's annoying when characters confuse lust with love . They often lack history -or the sense of it- with each other. It seems like 2 people meet have sex and then fall madly in love. Even when the characters say "It feels like I've known you forever" it usually doesn't read that way. I've never had that problem with Morgan's books. Perhaps that's because she sets the foundation up and leaves it with a future relationship on the cusp of potential- we get to envision how the relationship unfurls, creating our own happily ever afters.