I’d read this when it was an posted online but it was nice to revisit it in book farm. The characters are real and deep and Molly’s storytelling is top-notch. This book is much more adult than her previous works, which gives it some extra heft, both in length and in emotional resonance. Even knowing what the “deep dark” is, it was still an engrossing ride through love, loss, and secrets set in the desert southwest.
Everyone has secrets. Mags has teeth. Magdalena Herrera is about to graduate high school, but she already feels like an adult with serious responsibilities: caring for her ailing grandmother; working a part-time job; clandestine makeouts with a girl who has a boyfriend. And then there's her secret, which pulls her into the basement each night, drains her of energy, and leaves her bleeding. A secret that could hurt and even kill if it ever got out-like it did once before. So Mags keeps her head down, isolated in her small desert community. That is, until her childhood friend Nessa comes…
I love Boum’s comics. This is, i think, her longest graphic novel and it certainly piqued my curiosity. I found it to be true and complex and a little bit sad, but very real as the main character, Odette, navigates her seemingly dead-end 20-something life as a medical challenge looms in her eye. The relentlessness of the drawings pack more of a punch than words ever could and it uses the graphic novel format the way it was meant to be used—to present things as only visuals can. And it does so even while being rendered in stark black-and-white.
"A deeply moving meditation on disability, diversity, and joy." -Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review)
"One of the most beautiful graphic novels I've ever read... The Jellyfish is exquisite." -Kate Leth, author of Mall Goth
"What an accomplishment! This book is beautiful... I loved this character and this story!" -Lucy Knisley, author of Relish
Odette is a twenty-something year old with their own place, a steady job at a local bookstore, an adorable pet rabbit, and a budding crush on one of their customers. But Odette is haunted by something only they can see: a jellyfish that's floating in their eye, blocking…
Just like everything Alix E. Harrow writes, this book is filled with magic, torment, struggle, redemption, and a keen love of books and the written word. Although Starling House is not as immersively wonderful as her other books, it’s still an absorbing read that brings you into a rough, real, and very strange place. Basically it’s a haunted house story, but the ghosts have history and impact and the main characters, while fated to be where they are, fight and learn and stuggle and come out better in the end.
'Alix E. Harrow is an exceptional, undeniable talent' - Olivie Blake, author of The Atlas Six
Step into Starling House - if you dare . . . Alix E. Harrow reimagines Beauty and the Beast in this gorgeously modern Gothic fantasy, perfect for fans of V.E. Schwab and Naomi Novik.
Nobody in Eden remembers when Starling House was built. But the town agrees it's best to let this ill-omened mansion - and its last lonely heir - go to hell. Stories of the house's bad luck, like good china, have been passed down the…
Hi. My name's Lea, like the field. I'm sixteen and i live on a farm that's too far away from the public schools so i'm home-schooled, but not, like, Christian home-schooled. My parents pulled me out of that a few years ago. My younger brother and i read a lot of books and learn what we want to learn. All that knowledge gets me in trouble though, because i mouth off to my dumb neighbors when they stick God and guns in my face. And i stick up for the people that they hate-the outsiders, the freaks, the people who live different lifestyles than them. Look, i'm okay with living our lives without bothering each other, but when they start trying to dictate who can do what and whether i can get education and healthcare and, y'know, basic essentials of living in a community, well then i've gotta push back. And i do. And a lot of bad things happen and people get hurt. I dunno, maybe i should've kept my mouth shut, but when injustice happens at your doorstep, i guess you gotta stand up to it. I tried to, anyway....
