![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Entry tags:
Book Review: Garlic and the Vampire by Bree Paulsen
Title: Garlic and the Vampire (Garlic Book 1)
Author: Bree Paulsen
Published: Quill Tree Books, 2021
Rating: 4 of 5
Page Count: 160
Total Page Count: 528,610
Text Number: 1936
Read Because: browsing graphic novels shelf at..., hardback borrowed from the Timberland Regional Library
Review: When a vampire moves back into the local castle, Garlic is volunteered to scare him off because ... she's garlic. This is adorable. Of course, middle grade defangs (haha) the danger, although picture books and MG can be weird and unsettling when they want to and I wish that were moreso; it's not even spoopy. But that's balanced by the characters: Celery is mean, and that meanness doesn't have a neat heel-face turn; relationships and character arcs have movement without easy resolution, they're nuanced, and I appreciate that. This is cozy, quirky, sentient garden-grown garden-helpers and a vampire that drinks V8; I would have enjoyed weirder, but am more than sufficiently charmed to read the sequel.
Author: Bree Paulsen
Published: Quill Tree Books, 2021
Rating: 4 of 5
Page Count: 160
Total Page Count: 528,610
Text Number: 1936
Read Because: browsing graphic novels shelf at..., hardback borrowed from the Timberland Regional Library
Review: When a vampire moves back into the local castle, Garlic is volunteered to scare him off because ... she's garlic. This is adorable. Of course, middle grade defangs (haha) the danger, although picture books and MG can be weird and unsettling when they want to and I wish that were moreso; it's not even spoopy. But that's balanced by the characters: Celery is mean, and that meanness doesn't have a neat heel-face turn; relationships and character arcs have movement without easy resolution, they're nuanced, and I appreciate that. This is cozy, quirky, sentient garden-grown garden-helpers and a vampire that drinks V8; I would have enjoyed weirder, but am more than sufficiently charmed to read the sequel.