Don't Cosplay With My Heart - Cecil Castellucci [Review]

Title: Don’t Cosplay With My Heart

Author: Cecil Castellucci

Genre: Romance,Young Adult, Contemporary

Publisher: Scholastic Press

Original publishing date: January 2nd 2018

Pages: 288

Rating

★★★☆☆

Hello! Today I’m reviewing a book that just came out. I read it like three months ago, but I’m always a mess and slow to write reviews.

Don’t Cosplay with my Heart tells us the story of Edan Kupferman, a girl who is passing through a tough moment in her life, her family is a mess, her best friend is gone for the summer, and her crush is confusing. Edan is a hardcore fan of a comic titled Team Tomorrow, mainly a fan of a female antihero, Gargantua. She wants to be like Gargantua, powerful, strong, and able to express her emotions, so she decides to cosplay the character for a local convention and then her passion for cosplaying this character grows because it’s a way she has to express herself.  

When Edan's cosplaying, she can be angry, loud, and not the good girl everyone thinks she is.

And when she's at conventions, she feels like she's found her own Team Tomorrow. But when her personal life starts to spiral out of control, Edan has to figure out whether she needs a sidekick, or if she has the strength to be the hero of her own story. 

The Hike - Drew Magary [Review]

 

Title: The Hike

Author: Drew Magary

Genre: Fantasy, fiction, contemporary

Publishing year: 2016

Publisher: Viking

Pages: 288

Rating: ★★★★✩

I got this book at Comic Con, it was supposed to be a ticketed ARC and signing, but I was there at the right moment and they gave me a copy too and I got it signed.

            This book is about Ben, a thirty-five year old man, married and father of three kids, he goes to

Drew Magary signing
"The Hike" ARCs

a business trip to rural Pennsylvania and decides to go hiking before his business meeting. Ben gets lost at the forest and ends up in a path he must follow no matter what or something may kill him. He is desperate to return home, to return to his family and will endure anything to do so. Ben has several odd encounters with different type of creatures, from a mysterious old lady, to a giant cricket, to a man eating giant. He will find help in unexpected forms, from a talking crab to magical seeds and objects. He’ll do anything to go home, even if it takes out the worst of him.

            I know, the synopsis sounds actually boring, a grown up man that gets lost in a forest while hiking? But the story goes beyond that. Ben is trapped in a fantasy kind of dimension or world where time doesn’t matter and everything is possible, and the only thing that seems real it’s him. The path will make him confront his fears, and will make him take decisions to assure his survival.