Candy Bunny Reader

A cute graphic novel I picked up on a whim. Pizza Witch by Sarah Graley and Stef Purenins follows Roxy and her cat George. Roxy wants to be the champion witch at making pizza (a kitchen witch if you will!) like her idol, Jeremy. Jeremy is the owner of a famous pizza restaurant, Pizza Warlock, which is also where Roxy works. He always sends Roxy on quests to get ingredients. Roxy wonders when she will finally hone her skills on making pizza magically. Well, one day she gets sent on this much bigger quest to find the legendary ingredient: The Remarkable Oregano. It isn't easy, but she does manage to make a girlfriend along the way named Erin, and she finds out something not-so-nice about Jeremy, too.  I had a lot of fun with this book! It's very predictable, but that for me was a good thing--I was just in the mood for a light, comfort read.  I did give it 4 stars , but that's because I thought the ending was a little abrupt. I honestly felt that it was kind of a cliffhanger....

This is the prequel to Elatsoe , which I read and reviewed last year. You can read that review here . Sheine Lende by Darcie Little Badger is about the maternal grandmother of Ellie from the first book, named Shane (well, her name is Sheine Lende meaning sunflower in the Lipan language, but everyone usually just calls her Shane). Set in the 1970s mostly in Texas, Shane and her mother Lorenza have a search-and-rescue business along with their three dogs (well, two live dogs and a ghost dog) Neal, Nealy, and Nellie. They usually search for people in their community that go missing.  But one day as they are trying to investigate the disappearance of Bobby, the younger brother of their neighbor named Donnie, Lorenza mysteriously goes missing, too! Shane, her brother Marcos, and their Grandpa Louis team up with Donnie and her grandparents to find both people. They end up going on a road trip involving all sorts of things from eccentric scientists, otherworldly creatures, and invasive m...

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So I gave this book a second chance and read it the whole way through! What did I think of it? Summer of Salt by Katrino Leno is a YA contemporary fiction novel set on a small island called By-the-Sea. The MC Georgina comes from the Fernweh family, where all the women are witches with supernatural powers, but she hasn't discovered her powers yet. Her twin sister, Mary, can fly (actually float), and their mother can make potions (actually regular drinks like teas and coffees with healing herbs in them). The family owns an inn on the island that is popular with bird enthusiasts, because everyone who visits the island come to see a redbird named Annabella lay her eggs every year. Annabella is rumored to be a Fernweh woman who turned herself into a bird for mysterious reasons.  One of these visitors is a girl named Prue and her older brother, Harrison. Georgina and Prue end up becoming close and even become girlfriends, but their joy is ruined when someone mysterious kills Annabella. E...

  I finally read this whole book!  Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor is a YA urban fantasy book set in Nigeria. Sunny is a Nigerian-American albino girl who has always been ostracized by her community, but after befriending two other kids named Orlu and Chichi, she gets sucked into a secret society of people who are different like her. As it turns out, Sunny, Orlu, Chichi, and a fourth guy named Sasha are all "Leopard" people. These people are very spiritually attuned and can perform magic. This is what separates them from Lambs (ordinary people).  The four friends also get summoned to stop the ultimate plan of a serial killer named Black Hat Otokoto. If it isn't stopped, the whole world will literally end. This book was very magical and very atmospheric! It was so fun to read about Sunny stepping into her powers and finding a community of people like her. Very heartwarming.  I did give it 4.5 stars , but that's because of the more heavier elements that are present thro...

  Kind of a spiritual successor to My Favorite Anime Series (you can look at this page and that list under the Navigation Page above).