Candy Bunny Reader

  Just another chill reading month...   The single DNF was so disappointing because it came from an author where I normally love her books. But this one was so...lackluster? It had an interesting premise but the characters were just not interesting. It's hard to care about the plot when you can't care about the characters. 

  I saw one of my followers do this tag on Instagram and I had to do it too! The tag was originally created by @readromanread (over on Instagram). 1. The Queen of Hearts: A book with great villains. Both books in the The Avatar Roku duology by Randy Ribay. 2. Alice: A book with a smart FMC Evie von Rath in the Blight Harbor series by Lora Senf!   3. Mad Hatter: a character that comes across the opposite of how they really are We got two of these kind of guys in the same book: Wundersmith (book 2 of the Morrigan Crow series by Jessica Townsend. If you know, you know.  4. White Rabbit: A book everyone has been recommending Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro  5. Cheshire Cat: a book that surprised you.  The Poet X by Elizabeth Avecedo. I don't usually like books written in verse, but this was so good! 6. March Hare: a character you'd share the tea with Nicola and Simon from Nicola Traveling Through the Demon Realm manga series.  7. Caterpillar: A book ...

    Drop everything right now and go read this!  Navigating with You by Jeremy Whitley, Cassio Ribeiro, and Nikki Foxrobot is a graphic novel set in North Carolina! It follows two girls who become best friends and then girlfriends, Neesha and Gabby. Neesha just moved from New York after her parents divorced. She also has cerebral palsy and is an  ambulatory wheelchair user . Gabby just moved from Florida after her father got a new job. She also has PTSD. The two girls become friends through bonding over hunting down the volumes of, and rereading, their favorite childhood manga: Navigator Nozomi. It's a very slice of life-ish story of the girls having fun as regular anime-loving friends do, and dealing with their trauma by learning to get vulnerable and communicate more openly with each other.  If you couldn't already tell, this book had everything that I love: an ethnically diverse cast, sapphic romance, anime references, fandom culture, and mental health repre...

  As the title says. I picked out these books based on their vibes.  

    There's no actual review today. I just wanted to share that I am finally continuing the story of an anime I watched and liked years ago. I found out the story continues at volume 12. I still read the previous 2 volumes just as a refresher on what happened last time. Good thing the libraries in my area carry the omnibus editions. 

The second book I've read from Anna Sortino ! The first one was Give Me A Sign , which I read and reviewed last year. You can read that review here. On The Bright Side is a dual POV book. Ellie is a senior in high school, but her deaf boarding school just closed due to lack of funding. So she has to move back in with her parents who can't understand her and her disability and go to mainstream public school with an interpreter (well, two of them). Jackson is another senior who is a star athlete, but recently has been getting sick a lot and he can't perform as well as he once has. His alternative medicine-loving parents make it hard for him to go to the doctor and figure out what's going on with him (they eventually do, but reluctantly).  The school guidance counselor Ms. Lilly decides that Jackson will show Ellie around the school and help her get situated. Ellie and Jackson end up becoming good friends and even start dating, but Jackson is worried if his recently diagn...