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lightreads) wrote2018-12-09 09:02 pm
lightreads) wrote2018-12-09 09:02 pm
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The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl: 2 Fuzzy, 2 Furious by Shannon Hale and Dean Hale
The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl: 2 Fuzzy, 2 Furious
3/5. Second Squirrel Girl novelization, not nearly as delightful as the first one. See, this book is about a new mall opening, and how the backers start a contest to vote on the mascot, and there's team dog, and team cat, and the two fight like cats and dogs because there's an election, and a villain whose superpower is making everyone fight with each other, and I just. Look, I am not in the mood to read a haha funny book about election tampering. And this one in particular strikes me as poorly-judged. I mean, it's a Squirrel Girl book, so it's not really intended to be deep, but if you think about it for more than a few seconds it seems to be saying that . . . partisanship is stupid and there's no real difference between the camps and we should all just get along? Or possibly that elections are stupid? Ugh. It is simultaneously so on the nose that my nose hurts, and also without any clear meaning.
Points for the title, though.
3/5. Second Squirrel Girl novelization, not nearly as delightful as the first one. See, this book is about a new mall opening, and how the backers start a contest to vote on the mascot, and there's team dog, and team cat, and the two fight like cats and dogs because there's an election, and a villain whose superpower is making everyone fight with each other, and I just. Look, I am not in the mood to read a haha funny book about election tampering. And this one in particular strikes me as poorly-judged. I mean, it's a Squirrel Girl book, so it's not really intended to be deep, but if you think about it for more than a few seconds it seems to be saying that . . . partisanship is stupid and there's no real difference between the camps and we should all just get along? Or possibly that elections are stupid? Ugh. It is simultaneously so on the nose that my nose hurts, and also without any clear meaning.
Points for the title, though.
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(What you said in your other post about her being in a different genre is entirely true, and why I find the comics very restful.)