Graphic Novel Reviews and A Beth Revis Giveaway

   I don't think I've ever reviewed a graphic novel, like ever, so I thought that could change. I been in a terrible reading slump since school started, then NaNoWriMo killed me, and these helped. A little. Over the past week I read two graphic novels, Saga by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples, and Ms. Marvel by G. Willow Wilson and Adrian Alphona. They were both really good but I did definitely like Saga more. I'll also be talking about this huge giveaway, one of my favorite authors, Beth Revis (Across the Universe) is doing.

   Saga is about this couple, and their newborn baby running away from the man. During a war with different planets against each other. Alana, a broken winged, former-solider, with a wicked hair cut and her husband, Marko, a horn-bearing, magic wielder with a vow against violence try to find a safe place for their new family.

    First off, Saga by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples was a fantastic book. The story is like nothing I've read before and the drawing style is amazing. I laughed out loud at multiple points but the story was still touching and substantial. It's different for me, where I mostly read YA, and the main characters delivered their baby on the first page. It was however, very much a set up book, but I like those (I love myself a origin story). I think my favorite thing about Saga was the illustration. Every character was so distinctive and detailed, and everything looked real, like I could see them walking down the street, despite their wings and radio heads.  I will definitely be reading Saga Volume 2. Like, as fast as I can get my hands on it.

    Kamala, a Muslim,  New Jerseyite sneaks out to go to a party one night. After running home in embarrassment she gets caught in this fog, the Terrigan bomb, and recognized as a Inhuman is granted a wish by her role model, Captain Marvel. 

     Ms. Marvel by G. Willow Wilson and Adrian Alphona I didn't like as much for a couple reasons. I think the biggest reason was I had just finished Saga and my standards hadn't lowered yet. I wasn't a big fan of the style, it had a cartoony, lanky people, type of feel. I like usually either all the way cartoony (like Scott Pilgrim) or all the way realistic (like Saga). It did make me laugh too, but I didn't enjoy the characters as much. Okay, the more I write the less I like Ms. Marvel. I need to stop. Go read it, make a opinion for yourself.

   Finally, the giveaway. Beth Revis, author of one of my favorite series (if not my favorite), Across the Universe, is ding a giveaway that has over 20 books. There's three winners, with prizes for both American and International residents. And, they're good books. Not like those ones you'd find in the clearance section and has a bunch of ads in the back (no offense meant to those, authors got to get paid). I've read some of the ones being given out and they're really good. Revis' new book, The Body Electric, looks really good but i still haven't gotten my hands on it (Damn you empty wallet).  Anyway, enter the giveaway here. Thanks!

         

Undivided by Neal Shusterman

 The fourth and final book in the Unwind dystology, so they will probably be spoilers. Rating: 4 Stars                                                                                                           Which kind of ruined this book for me was I was never really sure this was the finale book until about the last chapter. This just left me in a state of panic and confusion and anxiety if there was enough time to wrap everything up. I don't have that intense feeling about this book, there wasn't any lasting huge effects. Nothing that made me want to cry, after the book (although there were moments during the book). I only had one big problem with Undivided, which was there was so much focus on Starkey, who I do not care about at all, I dont even hate him enough to care about him, I'm just tired of him. There was so much focus on him, which left not much room for who I care about, Connor, Risa, and Lev. There also wasn't a conclusion for Bambi, who I actually liked, which, now that I think about it, makes me angry. 

       Overall, I think this series was a little too stretched out, but really good overall. The first, two, i think are amazing and if you haven't checked them out already, you really should.

The Infinite Sea by Rick Yancey

Rating- 3.5 Stars
This is a sequel, book 2 to the 5th wave series, and will probably have spoilers for both books.

     I really, reallly, really enjoyed The Fifth Wave, the start of this series, but this one was kind of... boring. It had an amazing prologue but after that it took me a long time to get into it, then it would change books (chapters kinda) and it would take me forever to get into it again. I didn't (still don't really) remember any of the gang other than the main people, which left me very confused. It took me forever to read it and left me really confused. I'm not sure who's dead, who's where, who's almost dead, did we really find anything out in the book?? I felt like there was a aha! moment in this that I didn't pick up on.

Even though the story didn't do it for me, the writing, like it was in the last time was beautiful. All of his characters, especially the new one(s) are amazing (are they dead????). I think it was the characters who kept me reading (Even if I don't remember half of them, I still have ghost memories of caring for them).

I don't think i'm in the right place to tell you if you read it or not, I think i just read this in a really busy time and I didn't obtain the information in should have.(Is he dead??) I know however I will read the next one(s?) and hopefully reread both The Fifth Wave and this one by the time it comes out. (We all know that isn't going to happen)