Reading round up (74)

Reading round up is a weekly journal where I record my daily reading progress, my thoughts on each book as I read it, and any books I've acquired during the week.

13th April

I read 13% of Magonia by Maria Dahvana Headley, bringing me to 71%. I wanted to finish it today but my reading time got swallowed by writing 5K words.

14th April

AGAIN WITH THE NOT FINISHING A BOOK. Agh. I'm furious with myself and beginning to feel like a failure WHICH IS FUN. So I'm at 86% with Magonia and I do actually like it a fair bit.

15th April

I read 14% of Magonia, FINISHING THE DAMN THING FINALLY. It was great and I loved it but I'm sure I'll love it much more the next time I read. 

I also started Supervision by Alison Stine (19%), which started off bad (with a rly dumb move by the MC) but got better. The MC is Asian and maybe dead?? We'll see.

I also read Molly Danger/Princeless (60-ish pages) and it was full of lady power. Yaaaaaaaaaas girls, slaaaaaay. I love girls.

16th April

Loving Supervision. It's so sweet yet chilling and creepy, and holds a spotlight to parental neglect and abuse. A fab gothic novel tbh. I read 46%, bringing me to 67%. 

I ALSO read a bunch of single comic issues which I can't be bothered to list here, started Fight Like A Girl by David Pinckney and Soo Lee (20% read) and Harley Quinn, vol 1: Hot In The City by Amanda Conner and Jimmy Palmiotti (13%), which is of course crazy and awesome. I LOVED the first comic.

17th April

Finished Supervision (33%) and I Love it so damn much. The characters have a permanent place in my heart.

I also started Starborn by Lucy Hounsom, though I've only read 3%.

18th April

I read 2% of Starborn. Tbh I didn't even try to read this. I also read 29% of Harley Quinn, vol 1, bringing me to 42%. It's too cool. She's too sweet. I love everything about this.

19th April

Read 8% of Starborn, bringing me to 13%, and 36% of Harley Quinn, vol 1, which continues to be awesome. My love for Harley/Ivy is still very strong.

Books finished this week: 3
Books DNF'd this week: 0

For review:

Too lazy to link but here's what I got for review this week. Mostly Harper+imprints tbh :)

Bought:

Touch of Frost | Jennifer Estep

This has been on my list for what feels like decades.

I also got these AMAZON FREEBIES:

Arena One | Morgan Rice 

(I read the first part of this YEARS ago. Wanted to finish it ever since)

Rat Queens, vol 1: Sass and Sorcery

Molly Danger/Princeless FCBD

Magonia

For The Right To Learn (scheduled for 26th August)

Supervision

Harley Quinn, vol 1: Hot In The City

Supervision (ARC Review)

Supervision | Alison Stine

Published by: HarperVoyager, April 9th 2015

Genre: YA, Paranormal, Gothic, Ghosts

Pages: 400

Format: Ebook

Source: HarperVoyager, via Netgalley

Something is wrong with Esmé. 

Kicked out of school in New York, she's sent to live with her grandmother in a small Appalachian town. But something is wrong with the grandmother Ez hasn't seen for years; she leaves at midnight, carrying a big black bag. Something is wrong with her grandmother's house, a decrepit mansion full of stray cats, stairs that lead to nowhere, beds that unmake themselves. Something is wrong in the town where a kid disappears every year, where a whistle sounds at night but no train arrives. 

And something is wrong with the friendly neighbor Ez's age with black curls and blue eyes: He's dead.

I ummed and ahhed about Supervision for a few days before I eventually went ahead and requested a galley. Those days, I was being dumb, because this book has found a permanent place on the shelf of my heart (that's a thing now.)

Supervision started off a bit weird. I didn't like Esme, mainly because she acted really stupidly in venturing into a subway train tunnel because she saw a bit of graffiti. This is explained later in the book, so I shouldn't have judged so harshly. Once I got into this book, with the ghosts (who are sweethearts) and the setting (which is so fricking vivid) I adored it. It's just such an absorbing story, and manages to easily combine ghost story, murder mystery, and self-discovery. I loved the journey Supervision took me on, and Esme was such a good character when I finally got to understand her.

I am so glad I read this book. There are books where you can't say everything is perfect, you know there are maybe things wrong with it, but you get rose-tinted vision and fall headfirst into love with it. Supervision was like that for me. If you like adorable ghosts (A la Noah Czerny) and perfectly written settings, I can't recommend this book enough.

A bonus note: The MC is Chinese-American. And Invisible - I can't believe I forgot to mention she's invisible.

Characters ★★★★★

Setting/world building ★★★★☆

Writing ★★★★☆

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