Sheets - Brenna Thummler

Title: Sheets
Author: Brenna Thummler
Genre: Graphic novel
Rating: 4/5
# pages: 224 pages
Date read: May, 2018

Marjorie Glatt feels like a ghost. A practical thirteen year old in charge of the family laundry business, her daily routine features unforgiving customers, unbearable P.E. classes, and the fastidious Mr. Saubertuck who is committed to destroying everything she’s worked for.

Wendell is a ghost. A boy who lost his life much too young, his daily routine features ineffective death therapy, a sheet-dependent identity, and a dangerous need to seek purpose in the forbidden human world.

When their worlds collide, Marjorie is confronted by unexplainable disasters as Wendell transforms Glatt's Laundry into his midnight playground, appearing as a mere sheet during the day. While Wendell attempts to create a new afterlife for himself, he unknowingly sabotages the life that Marjorie is struggling to maintain.


I was utterly charmed by this graphic novel. The drawings are breathtaking (the colouring especially) and the storyline really sweet and touching. I felt for Marjorie from the very beginning, and though she should really have called the police on Nigel the first time he trespassed, as a 13-year-old with an absent father, I can understand why that didn't happen.

Wendell grated on my nerves at first, but as we got to know him better, I started understanding why he acted out the way he did. He did seem somewhat younger than his 11 years, but I'm willing to blame being dead for reverting to a younger childhood.

I loved the end and how the laundrette did become a "spa" after all.

Discount Armageddon - Seanan McGuire

Title: Discount Armageddon (InCryptid 1)
Author: Seanan McGuire
Genre: fantasy
Rating: 4/5
# pages: 334
Date read: May, 2018

Ghoulies. Ghosties. Long-legged beasties. Things that go bump in the night... The Price family has spent generations studying the monsters of the world, working to protect them from humanity - and humanity from them.

Enter Verity Price. Despite being trained from birth as a cryptozoologist, she'd rather dance a tango than tangle with a demon, and is spending a year in Manhattan while she pursues her career in professional ballroom dance. Sounds pretty simple, right? It would be, if it weren't for the talking mice, the telepathic mathematicians, the asbestos supermodels, and the trained monster-hunter sent by the Price family's old enemies, the Covenant of St. George.

When a Price girl meets a Covenant boy, high stakes, high heels, and a lot of collateral damage are almost guaranteed. To complicate matters further, local cryptids are disappearing, strange lizard-men are appearing in the sewers, and someone's spreading rumors about a dragon sleeping underneath the city...


I had been told that this was very different from the October Daye books which fortunately turned out to be true. A lot more fantastic creatures, a lot less fae and a super fun read. I mean... how often does a book include quotes such as "Life as the chosen religious figure for a colony of cryptid mice can be a lot of things, but it's definitely never boring." or "We all make mistakes. Luckily for us, there are very few mistakes that can't be solved with a suitable application of either lipstick or hand-grenades."? Any book that does is A-OK in my eyes :-D

I loved it - it was just the right mix of wacky and sensible for me to enjoy it. Most of the characters were likeable, and the ones who weren't were still (relatively) 3-dimensional. I enjoyed seeing the friendship grow between Verity and Dominic and absolutely loved Sarah!

Though the first book in a series, it actually reads quite well as a standalone novel as well.