Dating & Sex – Cannonball Read 17

You know, it is okay to say fat

Fat Chance, Charlie Vega by Crystal Maldonado

October 31, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

When I started reading Fat Chance, Charlie Vega I was okay. This is a thing. It is a little slow, but I can work with that. Then I started thinking I had read it before. I have concluded that I either have read the first few chapters or the two scenes that were really making me think I read before are “subject word for word” to other things read. Perhaps that is because the teen romance troupe is something we know and the author “went […]

Crushed

Crushing by Sophie Burrows

June 9, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

A mostly wordless graphic novel that has well placed, but almost after thoughts, text, Crushing has slight contradictions and straight forwardness mix to create a story that is part comedy and part tragedy. Comic because it is true. Who has not had the “buns picture” sent when swiping on the dating ap? (At least he asked if she wanted the “eggplant” picture). Who has not gone to the bar and drank alone? Who has not gone to the take-out shop in their pjs? Tragic because […]

Romeo and Juliet tackle social issues

The Education of Margot Sanchez by Lilliam Rivera

October 12, 2021 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

The Education of Margot Sanchez came up in at a time when I was looking for something different, not too “light”, but not too “heavy” either. And the book Lilliam Rivera presented was a story of coming of age when your world is not as perfect as it might seem. There is a lot to this story to make it a familiar story. We have the “trying to fit in with the cool crowd” plot line. We have the “abandoning old friends who don’t fit […]

I don’t think Bill W. saw this gal coming!

Other Broken Things by C. Desir

May 27, 2021 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Oh boy! Did I hate this book by C. Desir for the first few chapters: Natalie is a spoiled rich girl and is a “drunk” and of course thinks she does not have a problem; that everyone parities. Her character was a cliché from the first word. She, of course, blames everyone else for her problems, but does not admit they are problems. Even during a cliched moment (that I had really hoped was not going to happen) near the end of the book, she […]

I wish I had read this before I had my toxic relationship

Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up Me by Mariko Tamaki

May 15, 2019 by BlackRaven 2 Comments

When I first picked up, Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me, I am embarrassed to say the cover and reading the title made my first thought about the book be, “Another whiny dude gets dumped by his hot, selfish girlfriend.” I was partly right. It is “Girl gets dumped by her hot, selfish girlfriend.” Then I saw it was a First Second graphic novel. They do not do easy or traditional reads. Even Stargazing has a surprise at the end that is not light […]

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