Others: Leaning positive When Marjorie, a practical teen in charge of her family's laundry business, encounters Wendell, a ghost seeking purpose in the forbidden human world, the pair must find a solution to Wendell's hauntings that are causing chaos in Marjorie's life.
Genres: fantasy, young adult, graphic novel
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Molly Knox Ostertag
2017 · 210 pages · 1 review
Others: MixedIn thirteen-year-old Aster's family, all the girls are raised to be witches, while boys grow up to be shapeshifters. Anyone who dares cross those lines is exiled. Unfortunately for Aster, he still hasn't shifted . . . and he's still fascinated by witchery, no matter how forbidden it might be.
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Rachel Griffin
2021 · 368 pages · 3 reviews
Others: Overwhelmingly positiveFor centuries, witches have maintained the climate, their power from the sun peaking in the season of their birth. But now their control is faltering as the atmosphere becomes more erratic. All hope lies with Clara, an Everwitch whose rare magic is tied to every season. In Autumn, Clara wants nothing to do with her power. It's wild and volatile, and the price of her magic―losing the ones she loves―is too high, despite the need to control the increasingly dangerous weather. In Winter, the world is on the precipice of disaster. Fires burn, storms rage, and Clara accepts that she's the only one who can make a difference. In Spring, she falls for Sang, the witch training her. As her magic grows, so do her feelings, until she's terrified Sang will be the next one she loses. In Summer, Clara must choose between her power and her happiness, her duty and the people she loves... before she loses Sang, her magic, and thrusts the world into chaos. Practical Magic meets Twister in this debut contemporary fantasy standalone about heartbreaking power, the terror of our collapsing atmosphere, and the ways we unknowingly change our fate.
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Neil Gaiman
2014 · 170 pages · 1 review
Others: MixedThe concluding volume of the graphic novel adaptation of the book about a boy, raised by the inhabitants of the local graveyard who rally to protect him from a league of villains named Jack who seek to destroy him. In this second volume of a graphic adaptation of Neil Gaiman's novel, Bod wants to attend school with the living, but leaving the graveyard for the outside world puts more at risk than Bod knows.
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Bree Paulsen
2021 · 156 pages · 2 reviews
Others: Overwhelmingly positiveA farm-fresh debut graphic novel starring a heroine who is braver than she realizes. Garlic feels as though she’s always doing something wrong. At least with her friend Carrot by her side and the kindly Witch Agnes encouraging her, Garlic is happy to just tend her garden, where it’s nice and safe. But when her village of vegetable folk learns that a bloodthirsty vampire has moved into the nearby castle, they all agree that, in spite of her fear and self-doubt, Garlic is the obvious choice to confront him. And with everyone counting on her, Garlic reluctantly agrees to face the mysterious vampire, hoping she has what it takes. After all, garlic drives away vampires…right?
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T. J. Klune
2019 · 408 pages · 24 reviews
Others: Mostly positiveLinus is an uptight caseworker with a heart of gold working for the department in charge of magical youth. When he goes to investigate an orphanage on an island with supposedly dangerous children and an enigmatic leader Arthur, he’s expecting the worst. But it turns out he might be falling in love with Arthur and his charges.
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Tanith Lee
1980 · 172 pages · 2 reviews
Others: PositiveOut of the dusk he comes striding, the stranger, the man in black, inevitable as death itself: Parl Dro—Ghost Slayer.Some have bought his services for gold, and some have blessed him for his work. But not everyone welcomes an exorcist who will remorselessly deprive them of their beloved dead.Dro began his vocation at an early age. And now he will not be turned aside, no matter how you may threaten, curse or weep. He is seeking too the greatest stronghold of the deadalive: Ghyste Mortua, the ghost town in the mountains, and he means to destroy it.If he will face that, what use the pleas of the desperate sisters, Cilny and Ciddey, what use the rage of Myal, with his genius for music and his imperfect talent for crime?Only one thing, it seems, motivates Parl Dro.His determination to kill the dead."Tanith Lee is one of the most powerful and intelligent writers in fantasy." —Publishers Weekly"With Lee… expect the unexpected." —Starburst
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Loved itIf you have not read this series, you got to get on it. It's so freaking good. I've only read the first two books. I've not picked up and read the third book. It's heartwarming, it's adorable, and it's also got a bit of a mystery element involved as well.
MixedI really loved the ideas in this graphic novel. Honestly, and the art is also stunning. It was just the storytelling element of it that I thought was really underwhelming.
Mixedthis one is going to go in okay bordering on bad there's just like this book was really depressing the character just faces so much and there's not many happy moments but i did like the concept for it
Loved itquick shout out to sheets by brenna thumler which i freaking love but i read for the first time this year last year but i reread it this year so i just had to shout it out again
