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Goth Girl and the Ghost of a Mouse (Goth Girl, 1)

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This book was a five star read for me, and probably one of my top ten books of this year even if it is only March when I write this. There were several things that I enjoyed about this story but more than anything was the representation it had. I love to see a main character who just was on the bigger side, and there was no side plot that focused on her journey to love her body. She made clothes and costumes that fit her and her aesthetic. As someone who dresses on the more alternative side, I often struggle to even see people who have my body type that also dress like I do. I love to see a fellow fashion queen, and I appreciate her. Jess was claimed by the state when her bio mom’s mental illness made her unstable. While their relationship is far from traditional, blood ties are hard to break. There’s only one problem: Jess can’t reunite with her mom in New York City without a bunch of paperwork and she worries her social worker will never approve the trip. That’s when she remembers Oscar’s cosplay group, which is aiming for that big convention in New York . . . This changes when she gets a sudden insta message from someone claiming to be her biological mother and asking her to meet up. While Jess is aware what it means that they are messaging secretly- her mother is probably not stable enough for the government to allow them to meet up- she cannot say no to her. No matter how complicated and confusing their family is, she is still her mother and she still loves her. Family and blood is forever, for the better or worse. So Jess joins the cosplay team with the goal of using it as a way to get to her mom. Thank you so much to NetGalley and Flux, an imprint of North Star Editions, for the opportunity to read this book. I’m rounding up from 4.5 stars. Illustrated and written by Riddell, Goth Girl tells of Ada Goth (based on Ada Lovelace in a sense) and her home, Ghastly-Gorm Hall. It has English literature puns and references galore, though some take a bit of working out as Riddell has taken some liberty with them. The story itself is fairly simply, though I am delighted to say that it is not written in that awful style you sometimes get with children's books where the author is talking down to their intended audience because, as everyone knows, children are stupid. It is neither patronising nor simple, it is simply a delight.

No, kirjassa oli kyllä ihan poikkeuksellisen kauniit kannet ja runsas ja yksityiskohtainen kuvitus. Tarina taas ei ollut ollenkaan helpoimmasta päästä. Yksinäinen lapsi, suuri kartano, paljon outoja olentoja, omituisia ihmisiä ja loputtomasti outoja sanoja ja vaikeita nimiä. Kotiopettaja nimeltä Jane Korva, joka ei halua olla kotiopettajatar ja joka on kiinnostunut ainoastaan synkkämielisestä lordi Gootista ja joka lopulta koettaa polttaa kartanon länsisiiven. Kotiopettajatar nimeltä Hebe Poppanen, joka kävelee kuin pingviini, purskahtaa laulamaan vähän väliä ja karkaa lopulta nuohoojan kanssa. Kammottava sisäriistanvartija Nurjamaa, joka vangitsee viattomia myyttisiä olentoja sisäriistanmetsästystä varten ja Melankolinen runoilija-isä, joka haluaa tyttärensä käyttävän isoja painavia saappaita, sillä hänen mielestään lasten pitää kuulua, ei näkyä.

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Goth Girl by Chris Riddell is a beautifully illustrated series about the adventures of Ada Goth - a lonely girl living in a very strange house - from the bestselling author/ illustrator of Ottoline. This book is perfect for anyone who has ever felt left out! Goth Girl, Queen of the Universe by Lindsay S. Zrull is a heartwarming YA book about girl who is constantly bullied but who carves out her own niche through her own strength and determination. The story revolves around Jessica, who has bounced from foster home to foster home since she was seven. At school, she's called a witch and bullied for her goth fashion. Meanwhile, online, her followers praise her fashion and make-up skills. One day, a woman messages her claiming to be her biological mother. Will their reunion be everything that she expects? This was an incredible read. Starting from the wonderfully designed cover to the meaningful conversations all throughout to the conclusion, Lindsay Zrull has given us something special. I love this book so much. I was a nerdy teenager, so into conventions, and hanging out with other people that got it.

I got this book because I thought the cover was really pretty and I don’t often read books with a main goth character though they have a really interesting style. Ada Goth lives in Ghastly-Gorm Hall with her strange father, Lord Goth, numerous ghosts and an array of servants. One night the ghost of a mouse called Ishmael shows up, explaining that he'd been killed in a mouse trap and was no destined to roam Ghastly-Gorm Hall forever. What he doesn't know is that there's trouble afoot, and he and Ada are the only ones who can solve the mystery.Rather more down-to-earth is Oi Cat! by Kes Gray and Jim Field (Hodder), the third in the series that began with Oi Frog! The previous instalment’s diktat that cats must sit on gnats resulted in an irate feline with a bite-pimpled posterior. Now the well-meaning dog suggests that “kitty” or “moggy” might achieve a more comfortable seat … Boasting a final fold-out surprise, and the immortal line “My bottom is none of your business!”, this animal-rhyming silliness goes from strength to strength.

Thank you so much to NetGalley and the publisher for giving me the opportunity to read this book ahead of its release. All thoughts and opinions are my own. I enjoy Comic Con so I think it is a cool aspect to the story. But I wish it wasn't basically the WHOLE story. Aside from a romance, Comic Con and the characters skits are the entirety of the book and it started to irritate me a bit... Plus it made certain scenes a tad bit corny. Oscar is a geek, wanting friends and wanting to set his own path on making cosplay armor as a career.Basically Goth Girl is Ada Goth a young girl living with her father in Ghastly Gorm-Hall. Her mother was an acrobat and died while high wire walking. Because Ada reminds Lord Goth so much of his wife, he hides Ada away. A child must be heard and not seen. He wants her to walk about Gorm-Hall in loud boots so he can hide when he hears her. He only has one meal a week with her. Ada has gone through a number of nannies but they never last. Not because Ada isn't nice, but because of them. She will get a new one during this particular story. I'll let you meet her. The first Goth Girl book, Goth Girl and the Ghost of a Mouse, came out in 2013, winning the Costa Children’s Book Award and getting nominated for the CILIP Kate Greenaway and the Children’s National Book Award. There are now four books in the series. Important conversations about mental illness, the foster care system in America, friendships, and finding the middle ground between protecting oneself but also letting others in, continue throughout the entire novel.

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