Welcome back to the Epic Reads Challenge 2024, where each month select TBG members choose a book that fits the challenge's theme. Provided by Epic Reads, these challenges inspire new and unique book choices among readers. We encourage the community to join in this challenge with us and participate each month!
The prompt for November was… a graphic novel!
When you think of the word “novel,” you might imagine a thick, heavy book with pages jam-packed with dense text. But graphic novels are another form of book, one that became more common in the 1980s and continues to skyrocket in popularity today.
Here are a couple graphic novels that TBG read this month + their thoughts!
Grace: Heartstopper Volume 1 by Alice Oseman
Heartstopper is a bestselling LGBTQ+ graphic novel following Nick and Charlie, two English schoolboys who become best friends after meeting in school and playing rugby together. The book series has also been adapted into a Netflix show starring Kit Connor and Joe Locke.
If you somehow haven’t managed to read this graphic novel yet, then let this be your sign. The illustrations are wonderful and keep the reader fully engaged in the story, and the plotline is fast-paced and easy to follow. However, the best part is the characters, who are fun and easy to love.
Luke: Deadendia by Hamish Steele
For this month’s challenge, I chose to read the first entry of the DeadEndia books by Hamish Stele. I really enjoy the Netflix series Dead End: Paranormal Park, and when I found it the show was based off a book series, I was eager to check them out. The Watcher’s Test, the first entry in the series, focuses on Barney who works at a theme park that’s secretly also serves as a portal to hell. Along with his friend Norma and his talking dog Pugsley, the group battles demons, time-traveling cowboys, and scariest of all, love interests. While I thought some of the ideas were executed better in the show, it was cool to see how concepts of the episodes were originally written in the book. The book also did a great job making all the characters extremely memorable and funny. This book, and probably the rest of the series, would be great to read during Halloween or other spooky seasons.
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