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Weekly Update

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In case you missed it, here are this week’s blog posts:

  • Review: Dodge City by Josh Trujillo
  • Review: Comics for Choice by Hazel Newlevant, Whit Taylor, and Ø.K. Fox
  • Top Ten Tuesday: Favorite tropes
  • Review: I love this part by Tillie Walden
  • Tag: Summer Sweatalong Book Tag
  • Review: The Lady Rogue by Jenn Bennett

I’ve been reading:

Recently acquired:

  • Nothing this week!

2 things this week:

  • This last week has been an adventure, that’s for sure. “Getting stuck” is a strong way to put it, but my flight out of Tennessee was cancelled while I was at the airport, so that was a bit of a situation. I made it back to my apartment (and my cat) eventually. 🙂
  • I got to meet my friend’s new baby earlier this week, and I’m going to go hang out with her tonight, too. I love babies. ❤

Blog hopping:

  • Hannah wrote about problematic tropes!
  • Kaleena talked about transitioning to a self-hosted site!
  • Sarah shared YA books dealing with mental health!
  • Vicky recommended books based on the emoji mashup bot!

Song of the week:

How was your week? What’s the best thing you read or listened to? Anything interesting happening in your life? Let’s talk in the comments!

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Book Review: Dodge City by Josh Trujillo

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Dodge City by Josh Trujillo
Rating: ★★☆☆☆
Links: Amazon • TBD • Goodreads
Publication Date: November 6, 2018
Source: Borrowed

Dodge City is a YA sports comedy about making sense of a chaotic world and growing up against the insane backdrop of competitive dodgeball, told through the eyes of oddball Tomás and his teammates.

Life comes at you fast, but dodgeballs come way faster! Tomás is a teenage misfit, but when he joins the Jazz Pandas dodgeball team, he’s thrown into a family of oddballs and outcasts who are willing to do whatever it takes to win the summer regional dodgeball championships. Through a season of highs, lows, and blows to the face, Tomás might finally find a place where he truly belongs, and the person inside himself he didn’t know he could be.

I checked this graphic novel out from my library because, first of all, it looked like fun, and second of all, I more or less enjoyed the first several issues of Fence. A graphic novel focusing on dodgeball sounded like it would be a great time — after all, Dodgeball was one of my favorite movies when I was in high school.

The thing is, I feel like this graphic novel was a lot of nice art featuring a ton of diverse characters and not much else. There’s not much of a story aside from the dodgeball, and what little story there is is kind of choppy and confusing. This is definitely a fast-paced story, but it’s almost too fast for anything meaningful to happen. The characters aren’t particularly well-developed either — four issues in and I feel like I know them about as well as I did on page one.

All of that said, I don’t think this is necessarily a terrible graphic novel. There’s definitely potential for character development and for the story to improve, but I don’t know that I’ll be jumping at the chance to read any more of it any time soon.

Have you read Dodge City? Is it on your TBR?
Let’s talk in the comments!

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Weekly Update

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In case you missed it, here are this week’s blog posts:

  • Review: The Mental Load by Emma
  • Review: She’s the Worst by Lauren Spieller
  • Top Ten Tuesday: Characters I’d love to have as a best friend
  • Review: Killing and Dying by Adrian Tomine
  • Tag: Anything But Books
  • Review: Smooth Criminals, Vol. 1 by Kiwi Smith & Kurt Lustgarten

I’ve been reading:

Recently acquired:

  • Nothing this week!

1 thing this week:

  • I scheduled this post very far in advance because at the time it posts, I’ll be in Tennessee!

Blog hopping:

  • Kristi is doing a giveaway to celebrate her two-year anniversary!
  • Brittany is also doing a giveaway! Hers is to celebrate hitting 500 followers! (Congrats!)

Song of the week:

How was your week? What’s the best thing you read or listened to? Anything interesting happening in your life? Let’s talk in the comments!

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