What would the world be like if 80 percent of the population manifested superpowers called “Quirks”? Heroes and villains would be battling it out everywhere! Being a hero would mean learning to use your power, but where would you go to study? The Hero Academy of course! But what would you do if you were one of the 20 percent who were born Quirkless?
The final stages of the U.A. High sports festival promise to be explosive as Uraraka takes on Bakugo in a head to head match! Bakugo never gives anyone a break, and the crowd holds its breath as the battle begins. The finals will push the students of Class 1-A to their limits and beyond!
Review: I enjoyed this volume a lot with all the fights and the back story on todoroki . Midoria and Todoroki are the next to fight and Midoria is trying to get Todorki to use his fire side that he need to fight with it no matter who his father is . todoroki wins . Ida brother gets attacked by a villan . todoroki and bakugou go head to head and bakugou wins but he isn’t to happy about it lol can’t wait to read the next one .
A magical island. A dangerous task. A burning secret.
Linus Baker leads a quiet, solitary life. At forty, he lives in a tiny house with a devious cat and his old records. As a Case Worker at the Department in Charge Of Magical Youth, he spends his days overseeing the well-being of children in government-sanctioned orphanages.
When Linus is unexpectedly summoned by Extremely Upper Management he’s given a curious and highly classified assignment: travel to Marsyas Island Orphanage, where six dangerous children reside: a gnome, a sprite, a wyvern, an unidentifiable green blob, a were-Pomeranian, and the Antichrist. Linus must set aside his fears and determine whether or not they’re likely to bring about the end of days.
But the children aren’t the only secret the island keeps. Their caretaker is the charming and enigmatic Arthur Parnassus, who will do anything to keep his wards safe. As Arthur and Linus grow closer, long-held secrets are exposed, and Linus must make a choice: destroy a home or watch the world burn.
An enchanting story, masterfully told, The House in the Cerulean Sea is about the profound experience of discovering an unlikely family in an unexpected place—and realizing that family is yours
Review : Linus is a caseworker for magical children and one day he is sent to a special place to check it out see if it’s okay and that the children are okay. Linus meets the kids who are all special in different ways . Arthur who is in Care of the kids . Zoe who owns the island a sprite . I loved this book it was magical and sweet I loved all the kids in this book they have all been through so much prejudice. The people on the land hate the kids and what they are they think they are monsters . On the day they all visit on land there are more people who accept the kids that hate them . We meet Helen who is the mayor . Linus time is almost over . The kids don’t want him to leave and he doesn’t want to either but he has to go back to his job his home least that’s what he tells himself. We find out Arthur is a Phoenix . The people on the land were trying to get to the orphanage they want the children gone what assholes . There needed to be change Linus ends up going back but he quits and steals fials for other magical kids to hopefully help them and he goes back to his real home with the kids and Arthur . Arthur and Linus are going to adopt the kids and to be married so cute .
Quotes : We should always make time for the things we like. If we don’t, we might forget how to be happy.”
Hate is loud, but I think you’ll learn it’s because it’s only a few people shouting, desperate to be heard. You might not ever be able to change their minds, but so long as your remember you’re not alone, you will overcome.”
A home isn’t always the house we live in. It’s also the people we choose to surround ourselves with. You may not live on the island, but you can’t tell me it’s not your home. Your bubble, Mr. Baker. It’s been popped. Why would you allow it to grow around you again?”
When something is broken, you can put it back together. It may not fit quite the same, or work like it did once before, but that doesn’t mean it’s no longer useful.”
People suck, but sometimes, they should just drown in their own suckage without our help.
I’m afraid I don’t have magic.” “You do, Mr. Baker. Arthur told me
Your voice is a weapon. Never forget that.”
Change often starts with the smallest of whispers. Like-minded people building it up to a roar.”
Zoe choked on a laugh. “Come on. Let’s leave the dumb adults to it. We absolutely will go inside and start dinner and not watch them through the windows.” “Ooh,” Talia said. “I get it. Yes, let’s go watch—I mean, make dinner.”
In her small town, seventeen year-old Delia “Dee” Skinner is known as the girl who wasn’t taken. Ten years ago, she witnessed the abduction of her best friend, Sibby. And though she told the police everything she remembered, it wasn’t enough. Sibby was never seen again.At night, Dee deals with her guilt by becoming someone else: the Seeker, the voice behind the popular true crime podcast Radio Silent, which features missing persons cases and works with online sleuths to solve them. Nobody knows Dee’s the Seeker, and she plans to keep it that way.When another little girl goes missing, and the case is linked to Sibby’s disappearance, Dee has a chance to get answers, with the help of her virtual detectives and the intriguing new girl at school. But how much is she willing to reveal about herself in order to uncover the truth? Dee’s about to find out what’s really at stake in unraveling the mystery of the little girls who vanished.
Review : This book was crazy Dee has gone through a lot . Her best friend was taken and she was left behind. Dee runs a podcast where she talks about missing people. Then something happens another girl goes missing and she lived in the house Dee lived in when Sibby went missing. A new girl moves across Dee house Sarah she tells Dee she’s a fan of this podcast and they get closer and Sarah finds out Dee runs the podcast. Dee gets an email that someone might of seen Sibby and Dee talks to this girl and she tells Dee there was this guy who ran this farm and it’s mostly a cult . Dee sees a photo and it’s sandy Burke uncle ex girlfriend who was obsessed with Sibby . Sarah and Dee run to the neighbors house and they find Sibby and Dee runs in the woods and she makes an anoucement to her radio silence listeners and they help her out . The other missing girl the father kept her hidden to get money. I really enjoyed this story . In the end sibby and Dee are going to talk to that reporter that Dee trusts they are going to tell their story.
Asylum is a thrilling and creepy photo-novel perfect for fans of the New York Times bestseller Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children.
For sixteen-year-old Dan Crawford, New Hampshire College Prep is more than a summer program—it’s a lifeline. An outcast at his high school, Dan is excited to finally make some friends in his last summer before college. But when he arrives at the program, Dan learns that his dorm for the summer used to be a sanatorium, more commonly known as an asylum. And not just any asylum—a last resort for the criminally insane.
As Dan and his new friends, Abby and Jordan, explore the hidden recesses of their creepy summer home, they soon discover it’s no coincidence that the three of them ended up here. Because the asylum holds the key to a terrifying past. And there are some secrets that refuse to stay buried.
Featuring found photos of unsettling history and real abandoned asylums and filled with chilling mystery and page-turning suspense, Madeleine Roux’s teen debut, Asylum, is a horror story that treads the line between genius and insanity.
Review : I really enjoyed this book it was a bit slow in the beginning but it was an enjoyable spooky book for the Halloween season. This is about Dan he’s in this college program he meets some new friends Jordan and Abby things start to be going well for Dan but they decided to search in this old basement at their program see the college use to be an old asylum . Dan starts having weird dreams and he’s been receiving weird letters and then someone was murdered and another guy was injured this old serial killer the skulpter Dan thinks its him but he’s apparently dead . Dan was looking into him and even asked this guy a Townie who did a article about the skulpter but he freaked out due to Dan name cause apparently maybe Dan’s relative was involved with the asylum and use to do experiments. It turns out Felix his roommate was the killer but this place was causing him to act crazy very weird but I’m looking forward to reading the rest of the series.
Quotes: I wish this were just a nightmare that we could wake up from.”
The thing about memories was, you never could control when they came up again.”
May 29 Hunny’s little brother, Chika, pays a visit to the Host Club–and immediately starts attacking Hunny, using all his martial-arts prowess against his older brother! Chika seems to be the absolute opposite of his sweets-loving, Bun-Bun-toting sibling, but why is he so angry with Hunny? The Host Club is determined to find out the cause…
Review: I really enjoyed this volume . First the gang brought Koyo to the mall when he was half asleep then he ran into Haruhi stopped a seller from selling counterfeit art .Then Tamaki calls security for Koyo as a lost child.We meet Mori and Hunny brothers . Chika thinks Hunny is a alien cause he’s always eating cake at night and Hunny and Chika fight and Hunny stills wins .Haruhi gets kidnapped by the all girls school the host club and Haruhi dad go to girls school to see what’s going on . The play is going on and Haruhi isn’t very good at singing and the girls found out the host club came to the school. The last part is a short story about the twins when they were kids their Nanny was planning on robbing the twins and she does they give her the code . Their mom asks the twins if they gave her the code so they cried they faked the tears .
In this sharp-witted romantic comedy about the clash of the classes (of all kinds), a poor girl at a rich kids’ school ends up working at the school’s toniest club-and gets mistaken for a boy! In this high anticipated title, a kind of cross between HANA-KIMI and BOYS OVER FLOWERS, Haruhi is a scholarship student at an exclusive private school: Ouran High School, where it turns out the bespectacled, short-haired Haruhi is the only student from a lower-middle class family in attendance!
Then, to make matters worse, one day she breaks an $80,000 vase that belongs to one of the campus clubs-a mysterious outfit called the “Host Club,” consisting of six superrich (and gorgeous) guys. Haruhi can’t afford to pay back the cost of the vase, of course, so she’s forced to work for the Host Club! And it’s there that she discovers just how rich all the boys are and how different the rich are from you and me…And meanwhile, the eccentric but good-hearted rich boys are shocked to find out how life is on the other side…
Review : This volume was cute the school festival is going on and the host club has received some threatening notes and its club against club football club against host club the main guy has has a childhood rivalry with kyoya since they were six . The host club ends up winning and Haruhi finds out the notes were from two people the fiancee of the rival guy and tamaki father who likes playing tricks on him and this guy is definitely tamaki father hes very like him we meet the grandmother who is very unkind to tamaki and we learn some backstory so tamaki happened cause of an affair and his mom is french and sick and the grandmother made a deal with money she is to never speak to tamaki again and tamaki is to go to Japan its very sad . In the part of this volume we meet the vice principal who talks to the host club about not wasting food and they all end up making soup it was cute .
When everything has been taken from you, what else is there to do but run?
So that’s what Annabelle does—she runs from Seattle to Washington, DC, through mountain passes and suburban landscapes, from long lonely roads to college towns. She’s not ready to think about the why yet, just the how—muscles burning, heart pumping, feet pounding the earth. But no matter how hard she tries, she can’t outrun the tragedy from the past year, or the person—The Taker—that haunts her.
Followed by Grandpa Ed in his RV and backed by her brother and two friends (her self-appointed publicity team), Annabelle becomes a reluctant activist as people connect her journey to the trauma from her past. Her cross-country run gains media attention and she is cheered on as she crosses state borders, and is even thrown a block party and given gifts. The support would be nice, if Annabelle could escape the guilt and the shame from what happened back home. They say it isn’t her fault, but she can’t feel the truth of that.
Through welcome and unwelcome distractions, she just keeps running, to the destination that awaits her. There, she’ll finally face what lies behind her—the miles and love and loss…and what is to come.
Review : this book was beautiful and powerful and everyone needs to read it . This is about Annabelle who has been through a tragedy who decides to run to Washington. Annabelle refers to the guy who caused her pain the taker . So shes running and her grandpa is in a RV meeting up with her on the way . Annabelle meets a guy named Luke he makes a playlist for her . Annabelle talks about the taker who is a creep who becomes obsessed with her after her boyfriend breaks up with her . Shes running and shes grieving because the anniversary of the event has come up . Annabelle is remembering The taker takes her to a concert he kisses her and she doesn’t like it he becomes more obsessed with her and then she gets back with her ex boyfriend and the taker gets mad so mad when going to a party with her friends her friend kat and her are dressed very alike and the taker comes to the party with a gun and shoots Will and Kat cause he thought Kat was her . She runs more her grandpa is getting closer to Luke’s grandmother. Luke admits he likes Annabelle and he kisses her . She makes it to Washington and then in September she goes to court and she faces him and he gets what he deserves.
Quotes:
It’s the people who know you and love you that save you.”
The point is not him being weird or not being weird. The point is that you feel uncomfortable, and you’re trying to talk yourself out of it because you think you’re supposed to be nice.
Oh, every person is a book with chapters. Some are glorious and some are dark and ugly. Every person survives something.”
Why does anyone do anything impossible? To be bigger than the big bastard. I’m not bigger . Yeah? Who is standing here ? You , or the bastard?
Difference don’t matter all that much when you love someone
“Exactly. I’m almost done. Last pages.” “I shouldn’t interrupt, then.” “Hey! You know rule number one. You must be a reader.” “I thought rule number one is ‘Don’t tell the ending.’ ” “Wait. Rule number one: Hate the movie version.” “Probably, all our rules are rule number one. We can get a little hard-core.” “Always judge a person by their shelves. To fold or not to fold the pages.”
She does not read it the way she and Kat used to read books – devouring them with the speed of two people famished for words, ideas, and beautiful sentences that make you feel everything. No, she reads Endurance the way a person might read the Bible – in small passages, repeated again and again, to help her stay grounded. To help her persevere, and understand her place in the world. She has missed books, but she’s been afraid of them, same as music. Books make you feel things hard. They hit the tender spots. Books remind her of her and Kat, but also of her old self, too, the mostly carefree self. The girl who was just so happy to come home from the library with a big stack of new stuff to read. Books were dangerous.”
One day, Haruhi, a scholarship student at exclusive Ouran High School, breaks an $80,000 vase that belongs to the ‘Host Club’, a mysterious campus group consisting of six super-rich (and gorgeous) guys. To pay back the damages, she is forced to work for the club, and it’s there that she discovers just how wealthy the boys are and how different they are from everybody else.
Review : loved the stories in this volume. Haruhi got in third in her midterms so she has to retest so she is being tutored and the tutor hates tamaki cause he gets second where shes at third she has a grade complex she ends up stealing Tamaki bear for some reason. Haruhi ends up getting a job and the host club finds her . Hikaru ends up getting jealous of this guy Haruhi went to middle school with . Karu sets up a date between Hikaru and Haruhi but they end up running into the guy she went to school with Hikaru ran off and thunderstorms scare Haruhi so she ends up hiding in a church so Hikaru finds her and comforts her . A little girl thinks tamaki is her brother her actual brother is a member of the black magic club and he has issues with sunlight and he looks a lot like tamaki without his wig . Tamaki helps him with the light issues so he can be around his sister who is afraid of the dark when a cat almost attacks his sister he saves her .
February 23-24 One day, Haruhi, a scholarship student at exclusive Ouran High School, breaks an $80,000 vase that belongs to the ‘Host Club’, a mysterious campus group consisting of six super-rich (and gorgeous) guys. To pay back the damages, she is forced to work for the club, and it’s there that she discovers just how wealthy the boys are and how different they are from everybody else.
Review : this volume was great I loved the stories so after Haruhi father walks in on tamaki on Haruhi well he throws Tamaki and then we learn kyoya has been chatting with Haruhi father and Haruhi gets mad and goes to the store alone but Haruhi father after hurting tamaki feelings leaves and he goes to the store with Haruhi where they end up making a hot pot . In the next part Hunny ends up getting a cavity and sweets end up getting banned in the host club and he ends up getting mad at mori and mori feels it’s his fault that honey didn’t brush his teeth hunny apologizes to mori and then sweets are back at the host club. In the next part of the story they end up doing a alice and wonderland part with multiple Alice’s first it was the twins then tamaki then Haruhi it was a funny part of the story . The last part is when the newspaper club wants to do a expose on the host club mostly tamaki but the twins find out and they all stop it from happening I enjoyed this volume.
In this sharp-witted romantic comedy about the clash of the classes (of all kinds), a poor girl at a rich kids’ school ends up working at the school’s toniest club, and gets mistaken for a boy!
One day, Haruhi, a scholarship student at exclusive Ouran High School, breaks an $80,000 vase that belongs to the “Host Club,” a mysterious campus group consisting of six super-rich (and gorgeous) guys. To pay back the damages, she is forced to work for the club, and it’s there that she discovers just how wealthy the boys are and how different they are from everybody else.
Review : I loved this volume it was funny so the host club ends up going to the beach and then a situation happens where Haruhi gets hurt and Tamaki gets mad at her cause she could of been in danger so he vows not to talk to her until she sees it . But then she realizes the rest of the host club was worried about her also . Tamaki finds out Haruhi is afraid of thunderstorms so he helps her not be scared but the host club walks in on him and Haruhi with a blindfold on her it was to funny . The next part was the is where we meet girls from a all girls school zuco club who want Haruhi to join their club and leave the host club but Haruhi never planned on leaving and the host club members end up dressing as girls . Then we get to a Halloween part where Haruhi gets “cursed” cause she saw a witch but it turns out to be a trick the twins were playing on Haruhi so she could enjoy Halloween which was kinda nice . The host club members end up checking out Haruhi house and they have tea and cake and Haruhi is going to make lunch for them when tamaki falls on Haruhi and then her dad comes home .
The school-wide physical exam has thrown the members of the elegant Host Club for a loop. How can the doctor not discover that Haruhi is a girl? And once the female customers learn the turn, Haruhi can kiss her job goodbye. Illustrations. Rated for teens.
Review: I’m enjoying this manga series its funny and the characters are entertaining in this volume the health test is coming up and no one knows Haruhi is a girl except the group so they find a way for her to get her health test and no one to know her secret. In the next part Hikaru and Kaoru get in a fight for the first time and the group is trying to figure out what to do Haruhi is the only one who can tell the difference between them she tells them they need to stop and it turns out they were messing with them and they weren’t really fighting. This kid needs help talking to women but it turns out he only needs help talking to this one girl who is moving away and they play piano together very cute . Haruhi gets dragged to this resort and hunny gets separated and mori and Haruhi try to find him and he finds them .
One day, Haruhi, a scholarship student at exclusive Ouran High School, breaks an $80,000 vase that belongs to the ‘Host Club’, a mysterious campus group consisting of six super-rich (and gorgeous) guys. To pay back the damages, she is forced to work for the club, and it’s there that she discovers just how wealthy the boys are and how different they are from everybody else
Review: Really enjoyed the first volume I watched the anime a few years ago and it’s one of my favorite series . This is about Haruhi a scholarship student who stumbles upon a host club but by accident breaks a vase and in there debt to be the host clubs errand boy. Tamaki agrees to half Haruhi debt if she gets 100 customers so Haruhi is a host now . There is this girl who is a customer who doesn’t like Haruhi she throws her bag in the pond. She asks to meet with Haruhi and Haruhi tells her she sounds jealous and then the girl makes up some story about Haruhi and then the girl gets banned . Tamaki sees Haruhi ID and finally sees she’s a girl even though the other members already knew. Its Christmas time for the host club they are hosting a Christmas party and there is this girl Kanako who host hops from the guys and there is this guy Toru who doesn’t feel suitable for Kanako even though Kanako likes him so the host club ends up getting them together but the winner of the kiss was Haruhi and she ends up kissing Kanako on the lips cause tamaki caused trouble. A girl named Renge is obsessed with this game and Kyoya looks like the guy she likes and goes from France to Japan to meet him and calls him her fiancee even though they never met Renge has this film crew filming the host club and having them be more interesting but then things go to far and Renge wants these to guys to beat up Haruhi but kyoyo stops it and breaks the camera. A side story is about Hunny he is taking a nap and tamaki and the twins get his bunny Bun Bun dirty.
Lindsey is getting into her groove as the director of the Briar Creek Public Library when a New York editor visits town, creating quite a buzz. Lindsey’s friend Beth wants to sell the editor her children’s book, but Beth’s boyfriend, a famous author, gets in the way. When they go to confront him, he’s found murdered—and Beth is the prime suspect. Lindsey has to act fast—before they throw the book at the wrong person.
Review : A mystery set in my state I loved it this book is about a librarian named Lindsey who is settling into her new life at Brior creek there are a bunch of crazy characters and not as warm ones Mrs coal . Lindsey best friend Beth is dating this dickwad who is mad she got an interview with his editor so he breaks up with her what a prick .Mary’s older brother takes Lindsey and Beth home cause there is a bit storm out Lindsey and sully have chemistry but Lindsey has sworn off men after her fiancee cheated on her . Beth’s meeting with the editor didn’t go that well she said it was similar to Rick’s book but he stole her book what an ass and Beth wants to talk to him so sully Lindsey and Beth go on a boat to see him and he is dead the chief policeman is not very bright and Beth is is top suspect he doesn’t think there is anyone else but Lindsey does her research and Rick isnt actually Rick his name is Ernie Beth and Lindsey go to his previous apartment and they get his old stuff filled photographs . Lindsey apartment got broken into and the intruder took the box but she still has the photographs which is an old photo of Rick and Sydney who is his editor. Her and her and Beth go to his old school where they meet Tim who tells them that isnt Sydney its Astrid and she shoots Tim and takes Beth and Lindsey hostage to go to the library . Astrid killed him cause he stole all her work and made it his own like he did with beth she tries to kill Lindsey and beth at the library but ms. Coal hits Astrid with a oxford English dictionary perfect weapon. Loved this book cant wait to read the rest of the series.
Quotes : As always , Lindsey felt all her trouble ease once she was back among the familiar. Just seeing the names on the spines of the books was like calling hello to old friends.
Road trips required a couple of things: a well-balanced diet of caffeine, salt and sugar and an excellent selection of tunes—oh, and directions.”
“It was funny how none of her classes in library science has prepared her for this sort of thing, dead bodies, staff under suspicion, crazed reporters. Really, they needed to consider expanding the curriculum.
What would the world be like if 80 percent of the population manifested superpowers called “Quirks”? Heroes and villains would be battling it out everywhere! Being a hero would mean learning to use your power, but where would you go to study? The Hero Academy of course! But what would you do if you were one of the 20 percent who were born Quirkless?
The U.A. High sports festival is a chance for the budding heroes to show their stuff and find a superhero mentor. The students have already struggled through a grueling preliminary round, but now they have to team up to prove they’re capable of moving on to the next stage. The whole country is watching, and so are the shadowy forces that attacked the academy…
Review : Sports festival is still going on and to team up to be first izuku was in first he teams up with uraraka and Tokoyami and Hatsume to get the headband Ida teams up todoroki. Bakagou is with kirishima. Todoroki refuses to use his father’s fire side but during battle with izuku he ends up using it . Todoroki gets first . Todoroki chats with izuku and asks him if hes all might son and he knows hes keeping a secret. Onto the battles izuku is against Shinzo who has a mind control quirk and he almost wins but izuku hurts his finger to get his mind right again and izuku wins . Ida and Hatsume fight against each other she ends up tricking Ida but Ida wins the next up is uraraka and bakagou.
My Hero Academia, Vol. 5 by Kohei Horikoshi
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