Title: Stone Cold
Author: Shannon Watters
Series/Standalone: Lumberjanes (Volume 8)
Genre: Middle Grade, Graphic Novel
Pages: 112
Publisher: BOOM! Box
Year Published: 2018
Format: Paperback Copy (Library Copy)
"Five best friends at summer camp take friendship to the max when they team up to defeat the strange forces lurking within the surrounding forest.
Excited to have Barney starting their first week at the camp, the Roanokes run over to the Zodiac cabin, only to find everyone turned to stone! Between the strange shadows and Diane being back, it looks like April, Jo, Mal, Molly, and Ripley are going to have their hands full trying to find a cure for their friends... as long as they don't look the wrong thing in the eye first."
My Rating: 2/5
This was a disappointment. I feel that something in this series has changed and I just don't like it anymore. I think that it's been dumbed down and it doesn't hold the same elements that I once loved. It makes me really upset to see something start out so well and then just drop to such a different level due to artistic clashes. I may pick back up the series in the future but it won't be anytime soon.
Thanks for reading,
Sidny
Title: A Bird's-Eye View
Author: Shannon Watters, Kat Leyh, Brooke Allen, Noelle Stevenson, Grace Ellis
Illustrators/Colourists: Grace Ellis, Carey Pietsch, Ayme Sotuyo, Maarta Laiho
Series: Lumberjanes Series (Volume 7)
Pages: 112
Publisher: BOOM! Box
Year Published: 2017
Format: Paperback Copy (Library)
"All Lumberjanes are on deck when the High Council comes to camp for inspection!
The High Council is coming to camp and counselor Jen is determined to make everything perfect, even though a storm is brewing and kittens from the boys' camp are manifesting magical powers. It's every Lumberjane on deck as the girls do their best to prep for the grounds inspection... but there are some storms no one can prepare for."
My Rating: 2.75/5
This is such a stupidly specific rating. I just couldn't help but think about how this series completely changed the direction it was going and I'm not happy about it. I feel like now this series is so much younger than it was when I started reading it. That being said there was a cute moment at the end of this volume and I loved that moment but the rest was so blah to me. I'm going to read the next instalment but after that, I don't plan to continue unless I love Volume 8.
Thanks for reading,
Sidny
