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Hustle Castle: Fantasy Kingdom

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Become the lord and master of a real medieval castle! Accept new subjects, assign them to their...

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Dov Baron: Leadership and Loyalty Show for Fortune 500 Executives, Family Businesses, Leadership Speaker-Consultant, Business

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The Audio Experience of eavesdropping on the most interesting conversation in the personal and...

Wide Sargasso Sea

Angela Smith, Jean Rhys and Andrea Ashworth

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Her grand attempt to tell what she felt was the story of "Jane Eyre's" 'madwoman in the attic',...

Great Escaper: A Young POW in the Most Audacious Breakout of WWII

Louise Williams

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John 'Willy' Williams was a medical student and passionate surfer turned Squadron Leader and Second...

Joe Goodhart (27 KP) rated Paper Girls: Volume 1 in Books

Nov 30, 2020

Okay, as I wrote in my Comments for Reading Progress, this was a re-read, as I recently purchased Vol 4 as part of the SDCC Sale this past weekend on Comixology. I may have run through it first time out, because so much of what I read seemed as if this were my beginning go-round instead of a re-read. Hmm.. Time Slip anyone?

So, yes, just as with other BKV-helmed series, the characters are well-defined, given depth that is a progressional unfolding. Each issue allowed for me to see each of the main characters - Erin, KJ. Tiffany and Mac - for who they were and some of their moral fibers, if you will.

As good as Vaughn was at the writing, equally impressive was Cliff Chiang's art. The muted colors (except where needed, as deep red for a wound) really helped the story, making me feel like it was really the eighties instead of 2018! From the cars driven to the newspaper headlines to the housing developments layouts, it felt just like the time frame as the setting!

The easiest way to sum up this series is it is like Netflix's STRANGER THINGS but with all-girl main characters. I recall the later volumes being more science fiction-y as the series progress, but, yeah, definitely like STRANGER THINGS.

All I can say in closing is this is an awesome series! It is a lot of fun, and it is clear during reading it that BKV and Chiang had as good a time making it as I did reading! DEFINITELY CHECK IT OUT!