I could tell straight away that Peter was a demon. I dont know how but i just could. I will admit at first I thought it would also be the director. I was pleasantly surprised with this book. When I originally read the first book, I thought it was a standalone book. I know that there was more story to be told if you consider the two remaining trips to the demon realm.

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It was clever, although there were some which I flat out did not get. I appreciated when he took a group of books and changed their titles in a particular direction, such as, classic novels with added positivity: Merriment on the Orient Express; Life in Venice; Twelve Agreeable Men; Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spa; Portnoy's Compliment and Finnegan's Birthday Party. And there was classics reissued with lower standards: The Adequate Mr. Ripley; George's Passable Medicine; Reasonable Expectations; The Mediocre Wizard of Oz and The OK Gatsby. Those were fun. Cyn is sure nothing can, until the drama-loving demon pops up wanting to write the next broadway musical!Me alegro de haber podido leerlo en ebiblio y no haber pagado, porque sino me sentiría ultra estafada. Ryan and Cyn are together and going to camp together which is lovely until it becomes a love triangle...or rather square. As the title suggests the evil librarian tries to get his revenge with some help from his brother. Cyn is trying to win an award for best set design, dating Ryan, being jealous, having guilt over someone else, getting dragged to hell, being guilty for lying to Ryan as well as a big battle with the former librarian. I seriously cried at this. Like seriously how could he do that1 I was like don't let that bitch Jules rule you!!! I read the first book in this series several years ago and wasn't impressed with it. It didn't have the compelling characters and personal drama of a fun high school YA book or the interesting worldbuilding and speculative themes of a fun fantasy story, nor did I find it at all funny. However, I've been so desperate for stuff in this pandemic that I've been reading sequels to anything I found at all serviceable in the past. I kind of wished that Cyn would have been more honest and upfront with Ryan so we could have avoided some of the boyfriend drama (though that drama did end up playing an important role in her battle against demons, oddly enough), and I missed a little bit of the charm that the last book had for me, BUT as a musical theater lover, I was super connected to the fun camp setting and to Cyn’s connection to theater. I also still found Cyn to be a sassy and snarky narrator—a style that gets me every time. This installment got 4/5 stars from me.

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Starlit Lovers – Lor Phoenix and KitsuneArt’s Touching “Sapphic Slice-of-Life Romance” Debuts at Thought Bubble October 30, 2023 Jules and I both jump up to hug him, but without a hesitation he turns to me first, I close my eyes so I don't have to watch the expression on her face at being second in line" With Ryan, her crush and now boyfriend by her side, Cyn takes off for summer theatre camp not expecting to encounter demons ... or Jules, Ryan’s “friend” who just happens to be a pretty blonde. A reader can tell whether they’ll enjoy this book by the second comic, in which a monstrous villain (in top hat and cane) informs the young woman that “now that you are my bride, you will never leave this castle!” She doesn’t care, because he has an amazing library. Anyone who’s with her on that, who agrees that enough books and the right place to read them is all that’s needed, is the perfect audience for this.Hilarious and smartly written, this sequel did what few sequels can achieve ... and that is to be as good as the first story! I steal a bite of syrup from waffle from Ryan's plate (thats right Jules, because hes my boyfriend and I can eat off his plate anytime I want)" My issue is that after a bit, some of the jokes get rather repetitive. I can only take so many jokes that take the same five book titles and do unimaginative wordplay with them twice before I start rolling my eyes. And all the pandemic-related jokes, while they may have been timely when the comics circulated on social media, feel like basically every quarantine meme you've seen on Facebook.

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Digital Reads A Curse For True Love : the thrilling final book in the Once Upon a Broken Heart series The book is full of strips showcasing Gauld at his inventive best. Like clever new German words for readers (“buchverlusterliechgterung” = relief upon finding that you have lost your copy of a book that you weren’t really enjoying), Further Instalments of the Famous Six Word Short Story “For Sale: Baby Shoes, Never Worn”, useful abbreviations like tl;dr - “rb/gb = Read a Bit, Got Bored”, and Summer Reading for Conspiracy Theorists: Slaughterhouse 5G, The Old Man and the CIA.

Confront the spectre of failure, the wraith of social media, and other supernatural enemies of the author New Year's Resolution scratch-off exercise moving from high-minded commitments to Great Literature to This Year I Will Read For Fun NORD – Martin Simpson’s Norse Epic is a Stunningly Illustrated Tale of Mortality and Lineage October 31, 2023 As for the comics... they're cute, and the illustrations are reminiscent of a colorful, less crudely done version of "xkcd." Many of them have jokes that book aficionados will love, and anyone who's ever struggled with trying to write a book will identify with. It knows its audience and caters heavily to it, which is in no way a bad thing. Woman reading: "This is either a quiet masterpiece, subtly and meticulously detailing the gentle rhythms of daily life, or just really boring."