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Roll Call (Dungeons & Dragons: Dungeon Club, #1)
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Thank you to NetGalley and Molly Knox Ostertag for providing me an ARC in exchange for an honest review! Also a huge thanks to Xanthe Bouma for their amazing artistic work in this book.
"Middle school is a dungeon... At least that's how Jess sees it."
"Dungeons & Dragons: Dungeon Club: Roll Call" is a short graphic novel in which best friends Jess and Olivia, whom have been playing the fantasy tabletop role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons for years exclusively together, have life shoving them into changes. When Olivia decides it'd be more fun to start a club and seek out new members for their once solitary sessions, Jess's world-- and their friendship-- turn upside down!
My thoughts:
This graphic novel is one where I am overjoyed to have read. Sure, I am well beyond the demographic (middle schoolers) but even I thoroughly enjoyed it, and will introduce it to the young people in my life! The book did so much right:
- It did a realistic depiction of middle schoolers and middle school: forget hyper-sexualization, excessive mature drama, or feeling like the characters are adults speaking through them. It shows how kids don't always initially approach problems the most mature, and the intense social pressures of middle school.
- There is a lot of natural feeling representation, some of it being: Diné, messy home life, and more.
- Presents the idea that your hobbies don't have to "contribute" to something greater to be worth something.
- Shows how much pressure for some meaningless things (such as young student council) is pushed onto children who may not want to engage in it.
- Shows a wholesome, beautiful way for characters to make up
- The main characters don't always win: and that's okay!
This was very enjoyable, and I recommend finding a copy for yourself and/or someone young in your life.
I really can't even find a thing I dislike about this graphic novel: great art, great storyline for middle grade, and while a bit generic in school plot, still very fun and a real page-turner!
"Middle school is a dungeon... At least that's how Jess sees it."
"Dungeons & Dragons: Dungeon Club: Roll Call" is a short graphic novel in which best friends Jess and Olivia, whom have been playing the fantasy tabletop role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons for years exclusively together, have life shoving them into changes. When Olivia decides it'd be more fun to start a club and seek out new members for their once solitary sessions, Jess's world-- and their friendship-- turn upside down!
My thoughts:
This graphic novel is one where I am overjoyed to have read. Sure, I am well beyond the demographic (middle schoolers) but even I thoroughly enjoyed it, and will introduce it to the young people in my life! The book did so much right:
- It did a realistic depiction of middle schoolers and middle school: forget hyper-sexualization, excessive mature drama, or feeling like the characters are adults speaking through them. It shows how kids don't always initially approach problems the most mature, and the intense social pressures of middle school.
- There is a lot of natural feeling representation, some of it being: Diné, messy home life, and more.
- Presents the idea that your hobbies don't have to "contribute" to something greater to be worth something.
- Shows how much pressure for some meaningless things (such as young student council) is pushed onto children who may not want to engage in it.
- Shows a wholesome, beautiful way for characters to make up
- The main characters don't always win: and that's okay!
This was very enjoyable, and I recommend finding a copy for yourself and/or someone young in your life.
I really can't even find a thing I dislike about this graphic novel: great art, great storyline for middle grade, and while a bit generic in school plot, still very fun and a real page-turner!
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October 12, 2022
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October 12, 2022
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