#Bunt!: Striking Out on Financial Aid

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read in 2024: YA/MG comics/graphic novels

The Firelight Apprentice

The Pale Queen

Lightfall

How It All Ends

Lunar Boy

I Shall Never Fall In Love

Young Hag and the Witches Quest

Bunt!: Striking Out on Financial Aid

Confetti Realms

The Impending Blindness of Billie Scott

Ghost Roast

The Deep Dark

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New Releases of February!

I thought it’d be cool to start putting together a list of the new releases on my tbr for each month! These are the new releases in February that I’m looking forward to :)

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Max: *sarcastically* Oh yeah. I can sense it. This Corner Store definitely has ghosts, 100 percent. Dad Puckett: No joke, half of why I chose to move to Mayview was all the ghosts! Max: ????

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just got my signed copy of Bunt! in the mail from @ngoziu and @mynameismad !!! so excited to read it 😊💕

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Reluctant Reader Wednesday: Bunt! Striking Out on Financial Aid by Ngozi Ukazu & Mad Rupert 

Molly Bauer had big dreams for studying art in college. She was excited about getting a full-ride scholarship to PICA (an art school that’s a lot like SCAD in Savannah), but her first day turned into a disaster. When Molly got to the school, she found out that she wasn’t listed in their student records, and soon she discovered that her scholarship was gone. 

But Molly won’t let her dreams die that easily. She does what she can (including taking out loans) to pay her tuition. She also goes through all of PICA’s financial aid documents, and that’s when she finds a loophole that might save her, in the form of an athletic scholarship. If Molly can create a softball team, recruit nine other art students to join her, and they win one game. then they will win a huge athletic scholarship. 

But … can they actually make that happen? 

Give this graphic novel to teens who are fans of Ukazu’s Check, Please series, as well as any readers who enjoy stories about sports, art, teamwork, and friendship. 

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Sometimes I read a really really good comic and I realize maybe I just want to make comics forever and then I realize that means I have to make comics forever and I’m like fuck,,,,,,

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Molly Bauer's first year of college is not the picture-perfect piece of art she'd always envisioned. On day one at PICA, Molly discovers that--through some horrible twist of fate--her full-ride scholarship has vanished! But the ancient texts (PICA's dusty financial aid documents) reveal a loophole. If Molly and 9 other art students win a single game of softball, they'll receive a massive athletic scholarship. Can Molly's crew of ragtag artists succeed in softball without dropping the ball?

The author of the New York Times best-selling Check, Please series, Ngozi Ukazu, returns with debut artist Madeline Rupert to bring an energetic young adult story about authenticity, old vs. new, and college failure. It also poses the question: "Is art school worth it?"

I’ve been a huge fan of sakana since forever, and I like self-contained sports stories (the heated drama is peak, but I can’t stick with something super long) so I knew I’d love this graphic novel. and I was right.

I like the ensemble! The focus is primarily on the main character, but you get the sense they’re doing their own stuff in the periphery. wrangling a bunch of art students is a really funny concept and allows for a lot of personality contrasts.

it’s not a romance, but it does have romantic elements, and the love interest-type character is SO funny. there were several scenes with her that legit got a laugh out of me

super worth it, 100% recommended for a fun time. might give ex-art school students psychic damage

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🌈 Queer Books Coming Out in February 2024

🌈 Good afternoon, my bookish bats! Struggling to keep up with all the amazing queer books coming out this month? Here are a FEW of the stunning, diverse queer books you can add to your TBR before the year is over. Remember to #readqueerallyear! Happy reading!

❤️ We Ate the Dark by Mallory Pearson 🧡 The Paper Boys by D.P. Clarence 💛 Skater Boy by Anthony Nerada 💚 Your Shadow Half Remains by Sunny Moraine 💙 A Vicious Game by Melissa Blair 💜 Clarion Call by Cayla Fay ❤️ Relit: 16 Latinx Remixes of Classic Stories edited by Sandra Proudman 🧡 The Absinthe Underground by Jamie Pacton 💛 Truthfully, Yours by Caden Armstrong 💙 Outsider by Jade du Preez 💜 Cross My Candy Heart by A.C. Thomas 🌈 The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett

❤️ An Education in Malice by S. T. Gibson 🧡 The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles by Malka Ann Older 💛 Never a Bridesmaid by Spencer Greene 💚 The Rewind by Nicole Stiling 💙 Good Christian Girls by Elizabeth Bradshaw 💜 The Fox Maidens by Robin Ha ❤️ The Terrible by Tessa Crowley 🧡 Blood Rage by Ileandra Young 💛 Call of the Sea by Emily B. Rose 💙 Sign Me Up by C.H. Williams 💜 Ways and Means by Daniel Lefferts 🌈 Peaceful in the Dark by A.A. Fairview

❤️ We Are Only Ghosts by Jeffrey L. Richards 🧡 Dead Ringer by Robyn Nyx 💛 Somacultural Liberation by Dr. Roger Kuhn 💚 Stormbringer by Erinn Harper 💙 A Saga of Shields & Shadows by A.J. Shirley 💜 Ghost Town by R.E. Ward ❤️ I Heard Her Call My Name by Lucy Sante 🧡 The Night Alphabet by Joelle Taylor 💛 Remedial Magic by Melissa Marr 💙 Bloom by N.R. Walker 💜 Entwined by Alex Alberto 🌈 Queer Newark edited by Whitney Strub

❤️ Tristan by Jesse Roman 🧡 How to Live Free in a Dangerous World by Shayla Lawson 💛 Daniel, Deconstructed by James Ramos 💚 Of Socialites & Prizefights by Arden Powell 💙 Lost Harbor by Kimberly Cooper Griffin 💜 Hannah Tate, Beyond Repair by Laura Piper Lee ❤️ Bunt! Striking Out on Financial Aid by Ngozi Ukazu & Mad Rupert 🧡 How You Get the Girl by Anita Kelly 💛 Blackmailer’s Delight by David Lawrence 💙 Tile M for Murder by Felicia Carparelli 💜 Impulse Buy by Jae 🌈 Live for You, Die With You by Kalob Dàniel

❤️ Fairest of All by A.D. Ellis 🧡 Goddess of the Sea by Britney Jackson 💛 A Taste of Earth by Nico Silver 💚 The Moorings of Mackerel Sky by M.Z. Emily Zack 💙 How the Boogeyman Became a Poet by Tony Keith 💜 V is for Valentine by Thomas Grant Bruso ❤️ Crushed Ice by Ashlyn Kane & Morgan James 🧡 When Tomorrow Comes by D. Jackson Leigh 💛 Bugsy & Other Stories by Rafael Frumkin 💙 The White and Blue Between Us by Kiyuhiko 💜 Guide Us Home by CF Frizzell & Jesse J. Thoma 🌈 The Friendship Study by Ruby Barrett

❤️ Infinity Alchemist by Kacen Callender 🧡 Heart2Heart edited by Annabeth Albert 💛 No Time Like Now by Naz Kutub 💚 Bless the Blood by Walela Nehanda 💙 Vengeance Planning for Amateurs by Lee Winter 💜 Who We Are in Real Life by Victoria Koops ❤️ Prove It by Stephanie Hoyt 🧡 Mewing by Chloe Spencer 💛 Awakenings by Claudie Arseneault 💙 Born of Scourge by S. Jean 💜 Disciples of Chaos by M.K. Lobb 🌈 To Cage a God by Elizabeth May

❤️ Greta & Valdin by Rebecca K Reilly 🧡 What Feasts At Night by T. Kingfisher 💛 You Had Me at Merlot by Melissa Brayden 💚 Turning Point by Cathy Dunnell 💙 For the Stolen Fates by Gwendolyn Clare 💜 Season of Eclipse by Terry Wolverton ❤️ These Haunted Hills by Jana Denardo 🧡 Samson & Domingo by Gume Laurel III 💛 Lies that Bind by Rae Knowles & April Yates 💙 We Got the Beat by Jenna Miller 💜 The Diablo's Curse by Gabe Cole Novoa 🌈 Blessings by Chukwuebuka Ibeh

❤️ Out There by Iris Eliot 🧡 At Her Service by Amy Spalding 💛 Green Dot by Madeleine Gray

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December 2024 Reads

Orbital - Samantha Harvey

I Who Have Never Known Men - Jacqueline Harpman

Ghost Wall - Sarah Moss

Fox 8 - George Saunders

The Muse of Maiden Lane - Mimi Matthews

Finding Mr. Write - Kelley Armstrong

Cole and Laila Are Just Friends - Bethany Turner

P.S. I Hate You - Lauren Connolly

Not in My Book - Katie Holt

The Rules of Royalty - Cale Dietrich

Wrong Answers Only - Tobias Madden

Lily and the Octopus - Steven Rowley

The Mistletoe Mystery - Nita Prose

A Night in the Lonesome October - Roger Zelazny

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - Washington Irving

A Matter of Execution - Nicolas Atwater and Olivia Atwater

The Scholar and the Last Faerie Door - H.G. Parry

Cursed Cocktails - S.L. Rowland

Games Untold - Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats - T.S. Eliot

So Thirsty - Rachel Harrison

Hunting November - Adriana Mather

Two Sides to Every Murder - Danielle Valentine

Demon in the Wood - Leigh Bardugo

Thistlefoot - GennaRose Nethercott

Ghost Squad - Claribel A. Ortega

Heartwood Hotel: A True Home - Kallie George

Understood Betsy - Dorothy Canfield Fisher

The Death and Life of Benny Brooks - Ethan Long

Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Catcher - Bruce Coville

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, and the Horse - Charlie Mackesy

In a Jar - Deborah Marcero

Frog and Toad Are Friends - Arnold Lobel

Frog and Toad Together - Arnold Lobel

Frog and Toad All Year - Arnold Lobel

Up in the Garden and Down in the Dirt - Kate Messner and Christopher Silas Neal

A Little Like Magic - Sarah Kurpiel

Sugar and Spice and Everything Mice - Annie Silvestro and Christee Curran-Bauer

Mr. Santa - Jarvis

I Shall Never Fall in Love - Harri Conner

Bunt! Striking Out on Financial Aid - Ngoni Ukazu

Swamp Thing: Twin Branches - Maggie Stiefvater

Shadow of the Batgirl - Sarah Kuhn

She-Hulk, Vol. 5: All In - Rainbow Rowell

Briony Hatch - Ginny & Penelope Skinner

March: Book One - John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell

Cat People to Judge in Art and Life - Nicole Tersigni

Pen & Ink - Isaac Fitzgerald and Wendy MacNaughton

March Sisters: On Life, Death, and Little Women - Kate Bolick, Jenny Zhang, Carmen Maria Machado, and Jane Smiley

Everybody Needs an Editor - Melissa Harris

We All Shine On: John, Yoko, and Me - Elliot Mintz

Never Play it Safe - Chase Jarvis

Women Living Deliciously - Florence Given

Things to Look Forward To - Sophie Blackall

Real American Girls Tell Their Own Stories - Thomas Hoobler and Dorothy Hoobler

The Wood in Winter - John Lewis-Stempel

50 Ways to Rewire Your Anxious Brain - Catherine M. Pittman and Maha Zayed Hoffman

Democracy or Else - Jon Favreau, Jon Lovett, and Tommy Vietor

What I Ate in One Year - Stanley Tucci

Greekish - Georgina Hayden

The Vegetable Eater - Cara Mangini

Bold = Highly Recommend

Italics = Worth It

Crossed Out = Nope

Thoughts: So, uh, I read a lot of books this month. I leaned into beating my total from last year since I was close and read a lot of short reads, graphic novels, and the children's books I was giving for gifts.

There were some good reads this month, including two new canine narrators that I adore: Fox 8 and Snuff from A Night in the Lonesome October (which really should be a big tumblr book as it has Jack the Ripper, Dracula, the Wolf Man, a witch, a clergyman, a druid, Victor Frankenstein, Sherlock Holmes, a Rasputin-coded mad monk, and occultists along with their familiars scheming over the fate of the world).

Goodreads Goal: 476/400 

2017 Reads | 2018 Reads | 2019 Reads | 2020 Reads | 2021 Reads | 2022 Reads | 2023 Reads | 2024 Reads

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So my plan was originally to do these recaps every month, but that didn't happen. So instead, here's a reading recap for the first 6 months of 2024 in which I read 99 books, a concept that is still insane to me considering my goal for the year was 50. Pictured are my highlights, the god-tier books that left me screaming or the ones that I left feeling like a new person.

And here is the full list of everything I've read so far this year. (Bolded are the books pictured and italicised are books reread)

January My Dear Henry by Kalynn Bayron 4/5 The Seven Husband of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid 5/5 Padawan by Kiersten White 5/5 Dark Heir by C.S. Pacat 5/5 You’re Not Supposed to Die Tonight by Kalynn Bayron 3/5 The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones 5/5 Teach the Torches to Burn by Caleb Roehrig 5/5 The Star Host Trilogy by F.T. Lukens 5/5 Most Ardently by Gabe Cole Novoa 4/5 Harley Quinn: Die Laughing by Jimmy Palmiotti, Amanda Conner 3/5 Coffee Boy by Austin Chant 5/5 Star Wars: Vader: Dark Visions by Dennis Hopeless 3/5 Caroline’s Heart by Austin Chant 5/5 Stranger Things: Flight of Icarus by Caitlin Schneiderhan 2/5

February Self-Made Boys by Anna-Marie McLemore 5/5 Pretty Boy by Jett Masterson 1/5 The Prince’s Dearest Guards by Beau Van Dalen 3/5 The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab 5/5 A House Unsettled by Trynne Delaney 3/5 Bunt! Striking Out on Financial Aid by Ngozi Ukazu 5/5 The Chalice of the Gods by Rick Riordan 4/5

March  By Any Other Name by Erin Cotter 5/5 From Here to Eternity: Travelling the World to Find the Good Death by Caitlin Doughty 4/5 Family Business by Jonathan Sims 5/5 Hook's Tale: Being the Account of an Unjustly Villainized Pirate Written by Himself by John Leonard Pielmeier 4/5 Mapping the Interior by Stephen Graham Jones 4/5 Ouran High School Host Club by Bisco Hatori 5/5 Peter Darling by Austin Chant 5/5 Night of the Mannequins by Stephen Graham Jones 3/5 Darling by K. Ancrum 5/5

April The Candy Shop War by Brandon Mull 2/5 A Worthy Opponent by Katee Robert 5/5 Circe by Madeline Miller 4/5 The Never King by Nikki St. Crowe 4/5 Ben and Beatriz by Katalina Gamarra 5/5 Hide: The Graphic Novel by Kiersten White 3/5 The Darcy Myth: Jane Austen, Literary Heartthrobs, and the Monsters They Taught Us to Love by Rachel Feder 4/5 The Dark One by Nikki St. Crowe 4/5 Their Vicious Darling by Nikki St. Crowe 4/5 Ledfeather by Stephen Graham Jones 5/5 The Fae Princes by Nikki St. Crowe 4/5

May  Black Butler by Yana Toboso 4/5 The 2000s Made Me Gay: Essays on Pop Culture by Grace Perry 4/5 Pan by Christopher Ruz 3/5 Devourer of Men by Nikki St. Crowe 3/5 The Promised Neverland by Kaiu Shirai and Posuka Demizu 4/5 A Sea of Unfortunate Sould by Jay R. Wolf 3/5 Someone You Can Build A Nest In by John Wiswell 4/5

June The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan 5/5 Red Rising by Pierce Brown 4/5 Neon Gods by Katee Robert 5/5 The Girl From the Well by Rin Chupeco 5/5 The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan 4/5 What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher 4/5 The Titan’s Curse by Rick Riordan 5/5 Hooked by Emily Mcintire 4/5 Anger is a Gift by Mark Oshiro 5/5 A Spindle Splintered by Alix E. Harrow 5/5 A Thief in the Night by KJ Charles 5/5 How To Bite Your Neighbor and Win A Wager by D.N. Bryn 5/5 His First Bite by D.N. Bryn 5/5 The Lost Boy by Joshua Grant 3/5 Tink and Wendy by Kelly Ann Jacobson 3/5 The Wicker King by K. Ancrum 5/5 Epically Earnest by Molly Horan 4/5 Otherworldly by F.T. Lukens 5/5 White Smoke by Tiffany D. Jackson 5/5 Dark Heir by C.S. Pacat 5/5 A Mirror Mended by Alix E. Harrow 5/5 Peter Pan in Scarlet by Geraldine McCaughrean 5/5 Night of the Living Queers: A Queer Horror Anthology 4/5

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June books roundup

I got Covid the first of July and then went on vacation (after I had recovered and was no longer testing positive) for a week with my family.

- Bunt! Striking Out on Financial Aid by Ngozi Ukazu. A cute comic, if a litttttle heavyhanded. 

- The Book That Wouldn't Burn by Mark Lawrence. This took me forever to read. It picked up the second half, but it still felt like a slog - maybe because most of it featuring a huge library that the protagonist just ran down endlessly. It ended on a cliffhanger of course and it's a to-be-published trilogy, but I'm not sure I'll finish the series.

- Exit Strategy by Martha Wells (audiobook). The fourth Murderbot story. I enjoyed seeing all of our friends from the first book, even if I couldn't figure out what the villain would have taken one of the characters captive. 

- The Guncle Abroad by Steven Rowley. I loved The Guncle, it was such an unexpected emotional exploration about family and grief. This was not as good, a little more mean and a lot more superficial. 

- The Museum of Rain by Dave Eggers. My favorite musician wrote a beautiful song based around this story. There are some absolutely lovely sentences packed in this story and it's left me mediating on memory and finding beauty and the legacy we leave. 

- Wolfsong by TJ Klune. It's a gay werewolf series, which thankfully, did not feature knotting!

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Bunt!: Striking Out on Financial Aid by Ngozi Ukazu & Mad Rupert First Second

Publisher Summary: Molly Bauer's first year of college is not the picture-perfect piece of art she'd always envisioned. On day one at PICA, Molly discovers that—through some horrible twist of fate—her full-ride scholarship has vanished! But the ancient texts (PICA's dusty financial aid documents) reveal a loophole. If Molly and 9 other art students win a single game of softball, they'll receive a massive athletic scholarship. Can Molly's crew of ragtag artists succeed in softball without dropping the ball?

My Thoughts: When I cast around to get my thoughts about Bunt! the word that pops up is fun. Molly and the rest of the crew are stressed out art folks, but there is a lot of humor winding through their days. I love the bright cover that really gives a good hint of what's to come.

There's a lot going on in the pages with so many characters, art, softball, and navigating the payment of tuition. Though so much is happening around them, there is still a steady stream of reasons to chuckle especially in the conversations between Molly and Ryan. He's one of the people in her life that she can rely on along with her moms, but she also draws in an interesting assortment of students for the team. They each have their unique interests and personalities.

Molly is so full of enthusiasm about architecture and the history of her community that you can't help but hope the best for her in both art and the softball that could solve her financial issues. Those issues are greatly related to the art school. It's definitely a sore point that they use Molly to advertise their school while simultaneously jerking the rug out from under her.

As someone who needed loans, grants, and scholarships and sometimes couldn't cover tuition, I had a difficult time suspending my disbelief around some of the financial situations. Eventually I decided that I would just forget the realities about the mechanics of it and enjoy this in the spirit of playfulness that the authors created.

Recommendation: Get it soon if you are looking for a fun read related to art or sports. It's quirky and enjoyable. The vibrant art is cheerful and reading the emotions of the characters is quite entertaining. They are all feeling so much and expressing a lot.

Extras:

Author interview at The Beat

Author Event with Books Are Magic

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bunt was so fucking good. like I remember reading the check please books and thinking that they were really good but still had a webtoon vibe that didn’t fully translate to a book. I mean I still loved the characters and premise and stuff enough to obsess over it but like there was one thing that made me give it a slightly lower star rating and it was that. Bunt had everything I loved about check please but I personally thought the pacing was better AND I even liked the storyline a little more. I love it so much

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Isaac: Forget everything I said. You're allowed to be excited for eighth grade. I'm a jaded old man. Isabel: You're 11 months older than me?? Isaac: My soul is withered.

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Read in March

audio favourites

The City of Stardust - 3

Sir Callie and the Champions of Helston - 4

The Survivor Stands - 4

Exit Plans for Teenage Freaks - 3.25

Yours Celestially - 4.25

From The Dark We Came - 4

The Saint of Bright Doors - 4.75

Those Beyond The Wall - 4.25

The Truth of the Aleke - 3.75

The Invocations - 4.25

Rose/House - 4

Sugarsnap - 4

Sir Callie and the Dragon’s Roost - 4

Sweethearts - 4

The Scapegracers - 5 (reread)

Enter Ghost - 4.25

The Scratch Daughters - 5 (reread)

The Once and Future Witches - 4

The Feast Makers - 5 (reread - still the arc copy lol)

Tender Beasts - 3.5

graphic novels

Bunt!: Striking Out on Financial Aid - 5

The Golden Hour - 4.5

It’s Lonely At The Centre Of The Earth - 5

The Gulf - 4

Eat The Rich - 4.25

Sunflowers - 5

A For Effort - 3.75

DNF

Lore of the Wilds

Legacy of the Vermillion Blade

The Rage of Dragons

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The Worst Ronin by Maggie Tokuda-Hall, Art by Faith Schaffer

This young adult graphic novel follows a historical fantasy plot with fun additions of modern-day technology. Chihiro begs her parents to let her go to a village and defeat a demon in order to prove herself to her them and to the academy she desperately wants to attend to learn to be a proper samurai. Her parents won't let her do it alone, so Chihiro hires Tatsuo, an ill-mannered, female samurai who abandoned her duties, to be her partner on this adventure.

This book has been on my TBR since I found out about its release, but it also has positive reviews from places like Publishers Weekly and StoryGraph. It seemed like a great YA graphic novel for teenagers.

The illustrations in this book were fun but also could pack a punch. I love the big cells of color on every page, and pairing it with thick, dark lineart truly makes the bright colors stand out without the pages drowning in color. There is also a lack of the color red throughout the graphic novel, with the exception of violent intentions, blood, and (spoilers) the main antagonist. It proves that Schaffer had a clear vision in mind about how to properly show the cruelty and death in this book without it detracting from the comedic almost buddy-cop story we have with Tatsuo and Chihiro. Also at the end (spoilers again) when Chihiro is confronting the daimyo, her side profile is drawn identical to Tatsuo's, with a scar to match. It's just well-done.

It's hard to place a specific genre on this book because of how unique yet distinctly recognizable the setting is. It takes place in an alternative Japan, where modern technology like smartphones and email still exist, but samurai and feudalism dominate the land. From an article both Mirimoto and Chihiro read, it states that the daimyo "is still best known for defending Japan from invasion in the year---" (Tokuda-Hall, 2024, p. 265), implying that this Japan is an isolated nation like it used to be. This alongside the fantasy element with the existence of spirits and yamauba, demons that were previously human and consumed by harrowing emotions, makes the setting imaginative and mystical but still grounded in a kind of reality. All this said, I chuckled out loud seeing Chihiro go off into the dark, scary forest only to see telephone lines span the hillside (Tokuda-Hall, 2024, p. 40).

The language and dialogue in this graphic novel is probably my favorite aspect of it. Chihiro turns 16 during the events of the novel, and Tatsuo is 19. They are young, brash and violent, so it makes sense that their dialogue will be brash and violent. It's honestly refreshing to see teenagers cuss, because they do. Often at the library I see YA books placed in the adult section for cursing and foul language, so seeing this book continue to be marketed to teenagers thrills me. If I'm being honest, nothing tops the antagonist cussing at Tatsuo just for the pottymouth to respond, "Such language" (Tokuda-Hall, 2024, p. 306)!

Overall, I gave this book 4.25 stars on Storygraph and would recommend this book to those who enjoy sword-wielding manga series like Kagurabachi and Hell's Paradise, but also to those who want something that shares a similar humor to graphic novels like Bunt!: Striking Out on Financial Aid or Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong.

References and Links:

Shen, P. (2021). Nothing can possibly go wrong (F. E. Hicks, Illus.). First Second.

Tokuda-Hall, M. (2024). The worst ronin (F. Schaffer, Illus.). HarperAlley.

Ukazu, N. (2024). Bunt!: striking out on financial aid (M. Rupert, Illus.). First Second.