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Arden High #2
King Cheer
Heartstopper meets Bring It On in this contemporary graphic novel that reimagines Shakespeare’s King Lear as a queer dramedy!
When cheer captain Leah steps down months before graduation, the team is shocked. Waitlisted by her dream college, questioning her identity, and suffering from senioritis, Leah needs to hand the captain’s poms off and focus on her future.
But when the competition for captaincy goes awry, power-hungry twins take command of the squad and immediately pit the cheerleaders against the basketball team in a fight for glory. Balls fly, pom-poms shake, hearts are broken—and only one person can heal the rift between the teams. But first she’ll have to heal herself.
As full of heart as it is backflips and three-pointers, King Cheer is a warm and witty story of self-discovery, friendship, and finding the courage to face your future.
When cheer captain Leah steps down months before graduation, the team is shocked. Waitlisted by her dream college, questioning her identity, and suffering from senioritis, Leah needs to hand the captain’s poms off and focus on her future.
But when the competition for captaincy goes awry, power-hungry twins take command of the squad and immediately pit the cheerleaders against the basketball team in a fight for glory. Balls fly, pom-poms shake, hearts are broken—and only one person can heal the rift between the teams. But first she’ll have to heal herself.
As full of heart as it is backflips and three-pointers, King Cheer is a warm and witty story of self-discovery, friendship, and finding the courage to face your future.
160 pages, Paperback
First published February 6, 2024
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Molly Horton Booth
4 books167 followersMolly Horton Booth teaches English at Bunker Hill Community College, and also writes books about Shakespeare and feelings. She's the author of Young Adult novels SAVING HAMLET and NOTHING HAPPENED both published by Disney Hyperion. She graduated from Marlboro College and went on to get her English MA, studying Shakespeare some more (twist!), at University of Massachusetts Boston. Molly is a freelance writer and editor and has been published on TheMarySue.com, McSweeneys.net, HelloGiggles.com, etc. She directs a lovely, hilarious, and fierce group of homeschooling teen Shakespearean actors. Molly lives in Massachusetts, where she spends a lot of time with family and friends, and the rest attending to her queenly cat, loaf-of-bread-shaped dog, and small kitty spookyboy. Molly is a Sagittarius sun/Pisces moon/Capricorn rising. You can visit her (please do!) on her website, mollyhortonbooth.com.
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August 1, 2024
King Lear but make it queer. And set in a moderately magical modern day high school with apparently....Team Rocket?
King Cheer the second in the series from the team of Molly Horton Booth, Stephanie Kate Strohm and illustrator Jamie Green who introduced us to Arden High with Twelfth Grade Night is back with more Shakespeare retellings as cheer team captain Leah decides to step down from her role and give the cheer throne to whomever can show her the most gratitude through a single cheer. Taking the complexities of King Lear and adapting it into teenage politicking over which teams get to use the gym and high emotions over dating, this is a fun retelling with stunning artwork that is rather playfully successful with the source material. Convoluted for effect, it might not balance the large cast quite as effortlessly as the original but it makes for a fun read that feels like a honest and heartfelt tribute to one of the greatest stories ever told.
Tensions are high when Leah bestows power upon the cheerleaders who shower her in praise but cuts Cora from the team for refusing to put up with such a ridiculous task for power. It fits quite well into the Lear story with Cora as Cordelia and Rae and Gabe as Regan and Goneril, though we also have the Gloucester’s in the mix as power plays amongst the basketball team intertwine with the cheer team. The art really drives this story as well, keeping the pace quick through excellent framework that breaks up the heavy dialogue and some great character design. It makes great use of the source material and while the story can get fairly convoluted, it is still in keeping with the original tale. There are A LOT of characters but the art helps differentiate though its sort of easy to forget who they all are. It does, however, successfully hit the right notes and show how the thirst for power can really throw everything into disarray and I enjoyed the political elements that center on who gets to use the gym space.
Oh, and don’t worry, France makes a small appearance even if it doesn’t become a full out war…
A cute story with a really wonderful amount of queer representation across a large variety of sexuality and trans identities. The Arden High series has been quite fun and I am excited for more.
3.5/5
King Cheer the second in the series from the team of Molly Horton Booth, Stephanie Kate Strohm and illustrator Jamie Green who introduced us to Arden High with Twelfth Grade Night is back with more Shakespeare retellings as cheer team captain Leah decides to step down from her role and give the cheer throne to whomever can show her the most gratitude through a single cheer. Taking the complexities of King Lear and adapting it into teenage politicking over which teams get to use the gym and high emotions over dating, this is a fun retelling with stunning artwork that is rather playfully successful with the source material. Convoluted for effect, it might not balance the large cast quite as effortlessly as the original but it makes for a fun read that feels like a honest and heartfelt tribute to one of the greatest stories ever told.
Tensions are high when Leah bestows power upon the cheerleaders who shower her in praise but cuts Cora from the team for refusing to put up with such a ridiculous task for power. It fits quite well into the Lear story with Cora as Cordelia and Rae and Gabe as Regan and Goneril, though we also have the Gloucester’s in the mix as power plays amongst the basketball team intertwine with the cheer team. The art really drives this story as well, keeping the pace quick through excellent framework that breaks up the heavy dialogue and some great character design. It makes great use of the source material and while the story can get fairly convoluted, it is still in keeping with the original tale. There are A LOT of characters but the art helps differentiate though its sort of easy to forget who they all are. It does, however, successfully hit the right notes and show how the thirst for power can really throw everything into disarray and I enjoyed the political elements that center on who gets to use the gym space.
Oh, and don’t worry, France makes a small appearance even if it doesn’t become a full out war…
A cute story with a really wonderful amount of queer representation across a large variety of sexuality and trans identities. The Arden High series has been quite fun and I am excited for more.
3.5/5
August 24, 2024
here's the thing: i know this is a cute fun YA graphic novel but it is not a good take on lear, and i am this guy about king lear, and 18 pages into this book i stopped for an hour to make a tumblr post about how i would do silly high school king lear, because i'm insane. and that’s the kind of review this is gonna be, okay? there will be no "it's not that deep; stop thinking about it this hard; who cares if they got the characterization right." it's gonna be this the whole time. you can leave. i won’t be hurt.
this book is getting two stars instead of one for 1) the occasional well-timed joke (like the king of france character being the president of french club) and 2) the fact that the art is pretty and dynamic and fun and, like in twelfth grade night, there's a delightfully wide array of body types in the character designs. also, the goneril and regan characters' designs are literally just team rocket and that was kind of funny. i am now done saying nice things about king cheer.
this book should not have been a lear retelling, because this book is deeply uninterested in the plot and characters of king lear. i'm not generally bothered when retellings change things--that's the point of a retelling; otherwise i'd just read lear again. but it's possible to change things, even really integral parts of the story, while still exploring similar themes with similar characters. here are some things shakespeare's play is concerned with: aging, power, gender, madness, the loyalty one owes (or doesn't) to their family. here are some things king cheer is interested in: college applications, broken friendships, shitty boyfriends, making cheer club inclusive, stopping the plot to explain demisexuality. and okay, i'm being a little facetious, but there's no lear in this lear. it's clear that the authors wanted to write a fun heartstopper-style book about cheerleading and belonging and being on the ace spectrum. i assume they decided to model it off lear solely for the title pun, because it is hard to squash king lear into a high school comedy lighter than heathers.
the authors do not seem interested in anything to do with aging (again, hard to pull off in a high school setting, but also pretty integrally the point of lear, begging the question of why we're setting lear in a high school). the authors do not seem interested in the question of whether lear is actually fit to have power (leah seems to be a perfectly fine club president that bears no resemblance to king lear; she has no traces of egotism, her few fits of rage are unconvincing, and her "madness" isn't really mental illness so much as... imagining her past self talking to her?).
the authors are CERTAINLY not interested in the characters of lear's daughters, you know, kind of the driving forces of the plot of lear. we get a lot of fluffy cuteness between girl!gloucester and nonbinary!kent, but basically no development for the lear sisters. which, sure, okay, maybe the authors liked their gloucester and kent characters a lot, but WHY IS THIS A LEAR RETELLING IF WE'RE NOT GOING TO FOCUS ON THE LEAR SISTERS? charitably, one might say that it makes sense that cordelia (cora) is barely on-page because the same is true for the original play, but goneril and regan (gabe and rae) are certainly on-page all the time, and yet the book bypasses any sort of development to make them identical mean bitch team rocket expys who resemble what regina george might be if she started getting really into ace discourse.
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i truly cannot make this shit up. also, the reason they're villains is because they think the cheer club should be more selective and challenging so they can actually win competitions. ostensibly this is bad because they're encouraging dangerous practice sessions (and because cheer is, you know, such a famously inclusive and uncutthroat sport), but on-page it looks more like they're villainous for, uh... checks notes... getting rid of the pompoms? if the rest of this book were this silly, i'd be down for it. i love silly. but everything else, from leah's college-waitlisted-demisexual-crisis arc to the gloucester family fighting, is played completely straight, so what are we doing.
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before i get to my worst bugbears about this book, some gripes that are solely personal taste: first of all, it is extremely unfair to mention "the gloucester sisters" and mean... gloucester (gladys) and edgar (edie), who are sisters now. edmund (munroe) is their stepbrother, who is just some guy. the relationship between edie and munroe is practically nonexistent. we have girl gloucester and nonbinary kent, but we can't have girl edmund. this book hates me personally. second of all, i know this is set in the same universe as twelfth grade night (i think i did see a vi cameo; that was fun), but shut up about oberon and titania's romance! shut up! i don't care! there's enough going on in king lear; we don't have to keep interrupting it with fairy breakup nonsense! except i guess we do because nobody here but me is actually interested in the plot of king lear! i guess!
and yet this book isn't aiming at literary greatness; it's a fun silly high school romp compared to heartstopper and bring it on. i know this. i do. and i would be ten times more willing to cut it some slack if not for the absolutely atrocious decisions made regarding albany and goneril. specifically: albany is a cute uwu trans boy, and goneril, for reasons i cannot even begin to comprehend, is a cis man.
i cannot impress enough upon you, reader, that goneril in the original king lear is a character DEEPLY shaped by misogyny. she is tethered to a husband she hates because she has no other way to grasp for political power; she's treated as a buzzkill and a villain for wanting to put some brakes on her senile father; and, unlike regan (who faces the same buzzkill treatment but also has her husband's respect and backup), lear constantly and PERSONALLY berates her womanhood. the man CURSES HER WOMB. he spends the whole play salivating to call her a bitch. once again, i understand that adaptations are about change. but it is completely and totally lost on me what making goneril a man adds to this book in any way at all. it's the final nail in the coffin of the authors clearly not caring about what happens in king lear beyond their punny title (and, for that matter, clearly not putting any thought into their treatment of gender beyond "yay inclusivity"). is this so goneril/gabe and regan/rae aren't totally identical? you might have solved that by GIVING THEM PERSONALITIES. is it for MLM rep? well, why not make kent and gloucester--no, wait, never mind, apparently gloucester can be a girl, but god forbid goneril is. right.
but okay, we have MLM rep now! how is it? well, it sucks! this book's treatment of albany is weird. i'm not going to call it transphobia, because this series is clearly well-intentioned about queerness (and kent's nonbinaryness is handled normally, which is to say, it barely matters but at least nobody misgenders them). but i am raising my eyebrows HARD at making your only trans man a cute uwu softboy with "transboy [sic] intuition."
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why does being a trans boy give you "intuition" about lesbian relationships. answer quickly. SUCH a move to make albany (whose original counterpart spends the play getting emasculated by goneril, who calls him shit like "milk-livered man") trans and cornwall (whose original counterpart spends the play violating the geneva convention) a buff cis guy. making the one singular trans guy small and cute and innocent and constantly babied by everyone around him the entire story is even weirder. never mind that he actually is actually small and soft and innocent and babyable, apparently, since this works. i guess he's just a little pupper-doggo-loving uwu softboy little trans flower huh
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the original albany/goneril dynamic is that of a strong-willed woman chained by societal misogyny and her overbearing father to a wishy-washy man who responds to her (granted, vicious) insults with more misogyny. this book chooses to depict that dynamic as cis guy goneril patronizing and bullying cute sweet softboy albany, who eventually decides to ✨do the right thing✨ and ✨stand up for himself✨ and ✨tell the truth✨. here's goneril and albany interacting in the OG play--
and here's gabe and albany--
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THIS IS YOUR GONERIL? YOU MADE GONERIL A MAN AND LEAR A GIRL AND TOOK OUT ALL THE MISOGYNY AND THIS IS YOUR "THE LAWS ARE THINE NOT MINE" QUEEN BITCH? hate. let me tell you how much i've come to hate you since i began to live. there are 387.44 million miles of printed circuits in wafer thin layers that fill my complex. if the word hate was engraved on each nanoangstrom of those hundreds of millions of miles it would not equal one one-billionth of the hate i feel for bland and mischaracterized retellings of my special interests at this micro-instant for you. hate. hate.
anyway i can't speak objectively on the quality of this book but it's a bad lear retelling and it made me so mad i looked up the vocal ranges of mamma mia characters so i could prove that you can actually make "silly high school king lear" good. and you can! they just did it bad
this book is getting two stars instead of one for 1) the occasional well-timed joke (like the king of france character being the president of french club) and 2) the fact that the art is pretty and dynamic and fun and, like in twelfth grade night, there's a delightfully wide array of body types in the character designs. also, the goneril and regan characters' designs are literally just team rocket and that was kind of funny. i am now done saying nice things about king cheer.
this book should not have been a lear retelling, because this book is deeply uninterested in the plot and characters of king lear. i'm not generally bothered when retellings change things--that's the point of a retelling; otherwise i'd just read lear again. but it's possible to change things, even really integral parts of the story, while still exploring similar themes with similar characters. here are some things shakespeare's play is concerned with: aging, power, gender, madness, the loyalty one owes (or doesn't) to their family. here are some things king cheer is interested in: college applications, broken friendships, shitty boyfriends, making cheer club inclusive, stopping the plot to explain demisexuality. and okay, i'm being a little facetious, but there's no lear in this lear. it's clear that the authors wanted to write a fun heartstopper-style book about cheerleading and belonging and being on the ace spectrum. i assume they decided to model it off lear solely for the title pun, because it is hard to squash king lear into a high school comedy lighter than heathers.
the authors do not seem interested in anything to do with aging (again, hard to pull off in a high school setting, but also pretty integrally the point of lear, begging the question of why we're setting lear in a high school). the authors do not seem interested in the question of whether lear is actually fit to have power (leah seems to be a perfectly fine club president that bears no resemblance to king lear; she has no traces of egotism, her few fits of rage are unconvincing, and her "madness" isn't really mental illness so much as... imagining her past self talking to her?).
the authors are CERTAINLY not interested in the characters of lear's daughters, you know, kind of the driving forces of the plot of lear. we get a lot of fluffy cuteness between girl!gloucester and nonbinary!kent, but basically no development for the lear sisters. which, sure, okay, maybe the authors liked their gloucester and kent characters a lot, but WHY IS THIS A LEAR RETELLING IF WE'RE NOT GOING TO FOCUS ON THE LEAR SISTERS? charitably, one might say that it makes sense that cordelia (cora) is barely on-page because the same is true for the original play, but goneril and regan (gabe and rae) are certainly on-page all the time, and yet the book bypasses any sort of development to make them identical mean bitch team rocket expys who resemble what regina george might be if she started getting really into ace discourse.
(imgur link so you can zoom in)
i truly cannot make this shit up. also, the reason they're villains is because they think the cheer club should be more selective and challenging so they can actually win competitions. ostensibly this is bad because they're encouraging dangerous practice sessions (and because cheer is, you know, such a famously inclusive and uncutthroat sport), but on-page it looks more like they're villainous for, uh... checks notes... getting rid of the pompoms? if the rest of this book were this silly, i'd be down for it. i love silly. but everything else, from leah's college-waitlisted-demisexual-crisis arc to the gloucester family fighting, is played completely straight, so what are we doing.
(imgur link)
before i get to my worst bugbears about this book, some gripes that are solely personal taste: first of all, it is extremely unfair to mention "the gloucester sisters" and mean... gloucester (gladys) and edgar (edie), who are sisters now. edmund (munroe) is their stepbrother, who is just some guy. the relationship between edie and munroe is practically nonexistent. we have girl gloucester and nonbinary kent, but we can't have girl edmund. this book hates me personally. second of all, i know this is set in the same universe as twelfth grade night (i think i did see a vi cameo; that was fun), but shut up about oberon and titania's romance! shut up! i don't care! there's enough going on in king lear; we don't have to keep interrupting it with fairy breakup nonsense! except i guess we do because nobody here but me is actually interested in the plot of king lear! i guess!
and yet this book isn't aiming at literary greatness; it's a fun silly high school romp compared to heartstopper and bring it on. i know this. i do. and i would be ten times more willing to cut it some slack if not for the absolutely atrocious decisions made regarding albany and goneril. specifically: albany is a cute uwu trans boy, and goneril, for reasons i cannot even begin to comprehend, is a cis man.
i cannot impress enough upon you, reader, that goneril in the original king lear is a character DEEPLY shaped by misogyny. she is tethered to a husband she hates because she has no other way to grasp for political power; she's treated as a buzzkill and a villain for wanting to put some brakes on her senile father; and, unlike regan (who faces the same buzzkill treatment but also has her husband's respect and backup), lear constantly and PERSONALLY berates her womanhood. the man CURSES HER WOMB. he spends the whole play salivating to call her a bitch. once again, i understand that adaptations are about change. but it is completely and totally lost on me what making goneril a man adds to this book in any way at all. it's the final nail in the coffin of the authors clearly not caring about what happens in king lear beyond their punny title (and, for that matter, clearly not putting any thought into their treatment of gender beyond "yay inclusivity"). is this so goneril/gabe and regan/rae aren't totally identical? you might have solved that by GIVING THEM PERSONALITIES. is it for MLM rep? well, why not make kent and gloucester--no, wait, never mind, apparently gloucester can be a girl, but god forbid goneril is. right.
but okay, we have MLM rep now! how is it? well, it sucks! this book's treatment of albany is weird. i'm not going to call it transphobia, because this series is clearly well-intentioned about queerness (and kent's nonbinaryness is handled normally, which is to say, it barely matters but at least nobody misgenders them). but i am raising my eyebrows HARD at making your only trans man a cute uwu softboy with "transboy [sic] intuition."
(imgur link)
why does being a trans boy give you "intuition" about lesbian relationships. answer quickly. SUCH a move to make albany (whose original counterpart spends the play getting emasculated by goneril, who calls him shit like "milk-livered man") trans and cornwall (whose original counterpart spends the play violating the geneva convention) a buff cis guy. making the one singular trans guy small and cute and innocent and constantly babied by everyone around him the entire story is even weirder. never mind that he actually is actually small and soft and innocent and babyable, apparently, since this works. i guess he's just a little pupper-doggo-loving uwu softboy little trans flower huh
(imgur link)
the original albany/goneril dynamic is that of a strong-willed woman chained by societal misogyny and her overbearing father to a wishy-washy man who responds to her (granted, vicious) insults with more misogyny. this book chooses to depict that dynamic as cis guy goneril patronizing and bullying cute sweet softboy albany, who eventually decides to ✨do the right thing✨ and ✨stand up for himself✨ and ✨tell the truth✨. here's goneril and albany interacting in the OG play--
and here's gabe and albany--
(imgur link)
THIS IS YOUR GONERIL? YOU MADE GONERIL A MAN AND LEAR A GIRL AND TOOK OUT ALL THE MISOGYNY AND THIS IS YOUR "THE LAWS ARE THINE NOT MINE" QUEEN BITCH? hate. let me tell you how much i've come to hate you since i began to live. there are 387.44 million miles of printed circuits in wafer thin layers that fill my complex. if the word hate was engraved on each nanoangstrom of those hundreds of millions of miles it would not equal one one-billionth of the hate i feel for bland and mischaracterized retellings of my special interests at this micro-instant for you. hate. hate.
anyway i can't speak objectively on the quality of this book but it's a bad lear retelling and it made me so mad i looked up the vocal ranges of mamma mia characters so i could prove that you can actually make "silly high school king lear" good. and you can! they just did it bad
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March 6, 2024why does the cover look like team rocket??????
February 7, 2024
I did not see Heartstopper at all in this. It is unbelievably queer, which I love, but it was like Team Rocket meets Bring It On. It all began to feel a little too over the top and I wanted to DNF, but pushed through.
March 11, 2024
I liked this one significantly less than the other Arden High book, which is only partly because it doesn't at all feel like a companion book. I don't remember there being any significant fantasy elements in that one, but here Titania and Oberon are literal fairies and their stormy relationship is a totally unnecessary side plot. There's more than enough going on in King Lear already.
I think my biggest issue was that this book has a serious believability problem. Obviously, high school cheer and sports in general just don't work the way they do in this book. There don't seem to be any adult coaches at all, and the entire course of a high school cheer team is being decided by the teenage captains. That's mostly a problem because the new captains want to take the team from being an "inclusive" team to a competitive one. What does inclusive mean in this context? Apparently that anyone can get on the team and there are no standards at all. And yet they compete? Look, if you have a high school team that has no requirement to do something as simple as a backflip, you are not and can not be competitive. And if you do take this team to competitions, you will repeatedly get ground into dust. It's not bad to not want to lose all the time because your team leaders can't be bothered to have any standards or make any attempt do anything but lose horribly. Obviously, you can't make that kind of switch in a couple of weeks, and it's dangerous to try, but wanting to have a competitive team that is, you know, competitive isn't a moral failing, nor is it a moral good to treat cheer like it's a club and not a sport.
While I'm at it, it absolutely fails believability that the daughter of a congresswoman who has good grades and is captain of a sports team would be waitlisted at a college where she's a legacy. It's total nonsense. The weather controlling fairies are more realistic. I get that the King Lear stand in needed something to prompt her breakdown, but this just isn't it.
I think my biggest issue was that this book has a serious believability problem. Obviously, high school cheer and sports in general just don't work the way they do in this book. There don't seem to be any adult coaches at all, and the entire course of a high school cheer team is being decided by the teenage captains. That's mostly a problem because the new captains want to take the team from being an "inclusive" team to a competitive one. What does inclusive mean in this context? Apparently that anyone can get on the team and there are no standards at all. And yet they compete? Look, if you have a high school team that has no requirement to do something as simple as a backflip, you are not and can not be competitive. And if you do take this team to competitions, you will repeatedly get ground into dust. It's not bad to not want to lose all the time because your team leaders can't be bothered to have any standards or make any attempt do anything but lose horribly. Obviously, you can't make that kind of switch in a couple of weeks, and it's dangerous to try, but wanting to have a competitive team that is, you know, competitive isn't a moral failing, nor is it a moral good to treat cheer like it's a club and not a sport.
While I'm at it, it absolutely fails believability that the daughter of a congresswoman who has good grades and is captain of a sports team would be waitlisted at a college where she's a legacy. It's total nonsense. The weather controlling fairies are more realistic. I get that the King Lear stand in needed something to prompt her breakdown, but this just isn't it.
March 29, 2024
2.5 absolutely jaw-dropping STUNNING art that i truly love so much and would give 5 stars on its own but this story was all over the place 😭
November 25, 2024
*3.75
I reread King Lear right before reading this so I could follow the plot perfectly. Twelfth Night I can recite backwards and blindfolded. King Lear, I need a refresher.
And I'm really glad I did so - not just because I got to read more Shakespeare. The way the KL plot works in KC is surprisingly well done, especially with the roles every character plays. While I went into Twelfth Grade Night hoping for a perfectly accurate retelling, I had fewer expectations this time around. While KL is an intense tragedy about old age and senility and the loyalties owed to one's family, KC takes KL's bones and builds up new themes. So while the plot is the same, the messages are not.
Let's break this up, shall we? This is going to be a long one.
Oh, spoilers for King Lear, by the way.
The characters:
In KL, we have King Lear and his three daughters: Regan (with husband Cornwall), Goneril (with husband Albany) and Cordelia. In KC, we have cheer captain Leah and her three picks for taking over the team: twins Rae (with boyfriend Conrad) and Gabe (with boyfriend Alby) and Cora.
In KL, Lear's loyal friend is Kent. Then we have Gloucester, his son Edgar, and his illegitimate son Edmund. In KC, Leah's loyal friend is Kendall, who's dating Gladys. Gladys and Edie are sisters, and Munroe is their new step-brother.
You see where we're going here?
With Twelfth Grade Night, I painstakingly went over the core aspects of the original play and how well they were all handled. Here, since I have less of an emotional attachment to the groundwork, I'll just split this review up without any specific order.
1. Leah
As I said above, Lear's descent into insanity is given a much lighter treatment in here. Early on, Leah's anxieties manifest themselves in a vision of her past self whom she talks with in front of other people, becoming a point of concern for them - especially Kent/Kendall.
Leah's central journey in this book is about her demisexuality and how she doesn't feel "queer enough" because of her identity. She faces some hate speech but ultimately finds acceptance and understanding among her friends. There's also her nervousness about going off to college and not getting into her top choice - good relatable stuff.
With that being said, the book opens with Leah deciding to crown the new cheer captain via the "Pom Squad Spirit Send-Off," a celebration scheduled to happen when Leah graduates. However, she pushes the tradition forward, and Rae and Gabe give flowery, praise-filled speeches for their auditions. Cora, however, refuses to participate, and is subsequently kicked off the team by Leah. As for what happens next... that'll be in the next section!
Just like the original Lear, Leah eventually realizes she made the wrong choice by kicking out Cora and being so rude to Kendall, and apologies are made. With so many characters, I don't know if Leah is MC exactly, but her arc was handled well.
2. Rae and Gabe (and Conrad and Alby)
With Leah as captain, the cheer team has never before won a tournament. As co-captains, Rae and Gabe decide to throw out the team's pom-poms and push everyone to dangerous limits in order to better themselves. Are they going too far?
As a non-cheerleader, this whole aspect confused me (and still does). Is it really a good thing if Leah was so lax with the team that they never won anything? As a sports team, wouldn't it look better on their transcripts if they had a few victories under their belts? I'm not saying they should hurt themselves, obviously - Gabe and Rae are clearly pushing everyone too far - but is making the team "an inclusive environment for everyone!" the best tactic when Leah isn't even trying to win? I don't know, no one ever brings this up, so maybe it's not a problem. I just couldn't help thinking the twins had the right idea with the wrong execution.
As in KL, KC leads to the twins kicking Leah out of the squad and then, later on, kicking her out of a Halloween party and leaving her in the snow. It's very KL-accurate.
In KL, Regan's husband Cornwall dies. In KC, Rae just dumps Conrad halfway through. In KL, Goneril's husband Albany becomes sympathetic toward Lear and turns on his wife. In KC, Alby takes the same arc with his boyfriend.
There's also some fun stuff with Edmund/Munroe, but I'll get to that in the next section.
I really liked how, near the end of King Cheer, Rae's near-injury causes Gabe to panic and both twins to reconsider everything they've done to get to this point. It's humanizing and surprisingly sympathetic - I liked their ending a lot more than I thought I would. It's genuinely nice how there's no true villain in this book!
3. Gladys, Edie, and Munroe
This was the part I was the most looking forward to. Edmund, that cunning bastard, is probably my favorite KL character, and I was very excited for his arc. In here, Gladys and Edie are sisters with vast basketball success - unlike Munroe, their new step-brother. With his dad neglecting Munroe for his step-sisters, Munroe vows to break them up and get his revenge.
Munroe was a good sympathetic character, just like his source material, and I REALLY liked how he was given the nickname "Base" by his teammates because he "can't even make a basket from the baseline." In the original play, Edmund is called "Base" because it means "bastard." So that was a fantastic connection.
In KL, Edmund forges letters from his brother to trick Gloucester. In KC, Munroe forges texts from Edie to trick Gladys. He befriends Rae and Gabe to manipulate the cheer team and cause greater strife for Gladys and her basketball team. And, just like the original play, Munroe flirts with both twins in order to seize their loyalty. Now that's fun!
I cannot vocalize just how much I appreciated the resolution of Gladys, Edie, and Munroe's relationship. Even in KL, when Edmund is dying, Edgar agrees with his brother that Gloucester mistreated him. The three siblings standing together in here was lovely.
There's also some stuff about Gladys hogging the gym for her basketball team and neglecting the cheer team, so that was nicely resolved. (Also, there was a part where I really thought she might lose an eye.) I found Gladys a bit of a frustrating character, but she was fine overall. Speaking of her...
4. Kendall
...Gladys is dating Kendall!
It's a connection that really works in here. Kendall is also Leah's best friend. Just like their namesake, Kendall follows Leah down whatever path she takes, staying loyally by her side and repeatedly telling her that she's making the wrong choices. I liked how Gladys told Kendall that they sometimes need to set boundaries, as they call out Leah's jerkish behavior then turn around and text Leah repeatedly to try and help her. In KL, Kent is exceeding loyal to Lear to the point of danger, so I liked this dynamic being recreated in KC.
In KL, Kent finds Lear in the snowstorm and leads him to a shack. There, they warm up and find Edgar, who is in disguise. In KC, Kendall finds Leah after the twins kick her out of the Halloween party and leads her to a shed. There, they warm up and find Edie in costume as a mascot. It took me a second to figure out who the bird was, and when I realized "oh, it's Edie in disguise, just like Edgar!" I was duly impressed.
All this brings us to the last central character...
5. Cora
In the first act of King Lear, Cordelia is disowned by her father and marries the King of France. In here, Cordelia is a member of the French club, and its president has a crush on her. Early on, I liked this retelling element and could see where it was leading. However, KC decided to change all of this for no reason.
Instead of getting with Mr. President, Cora confesses to Kendall that she doesn't like him - she has a crush on a girl who "doesn't know [she] exist[s]" and wants advice. This just had me throwing up my hands, because why?
Look, I will never complain about adding queer characters to modern retellings! Hell, almost the entire cast of this book is some flavor of queer! But why sabotage the Cordelia/France plotline of the original play so utterly? Hell, just make the King into the Queen, and there you go!
I will never be invested in a romance where one characters sighs and says "I like A, but they don't know I exist." Then that's NOTHING! You don't like this person at all if you have NO connection with them! That's so boring from a reader's perspective, too!
Cora gets paired off with one of the last remaining single girls in the book (can you guess who?) and that's her whole plotline. I did like her relationship with Leah and Kendall and Alby, and her character got good resolution. It was just the full abandoning of the King of France part that frustrated me. This is like when Twelfth Grade Night tried to give us Sebastian/Puck when Antonio was literally right there. Why mess with success??
Anyhow.
With all this being said - I really liked the artwork and use of colors in here. I was very unintersted in the dramatic plotline of Tanya and Ron's break-up and reunion. They're the only characters from book 1 who make a reappearance - which makes total sense, given the influx of new characters here - but I could not care less. There's already so much going on plot-wise, why throw in another tangent that's not even about King Lear?
But, even if I complain, I really can't deny how well all of these varying plot points tied together and became so perfectly resolved. I felt like Twelfth Grade Night wasn't long enough, and that had half the cast! In here, the pacing felt so much better.
So, are we getting queer Midsummer Night's Dream yet? Or Othello? Maybe even Tempest? I'm here for this - these books are great fun.
3.75/5 stars!
I reread King Lear right before reading this so I could follow the plot perfectly. Twelfth Night I can recite backwards and blindfolded. King Lear, I need a refresher.
And I'm really glad I did so - not just because I got to read more Shakespeare. The way the KL plot works in KC is surprisingly well done, especially with the roles every character plays. While I went into Twelfth Grade Night hoping for a perfectly accurate retelling, I had fewer expectations this time around. While KL is an intense tragedy about old age and senility and the loyalties owed to one's family, KC takes KL's bones and builds up new themes. So while the plot is the same, the messages are not.
Let's break this up, shall we? This is going to be a long one.
Oh, spoilers for King Lear, by the way.
The characters:
In KL, we have King Lear and his three daughters: Regan (with husband Cornwall), Goneril (with husband Albany) and Cordelia. In KC, we have cheer captain Leah and her three picks for taking over the team: twins Rae (with boyfriend Conrad) and Gabe (with boyfriend Alby) and Cora.
In KL, Lear's loyal friend is Kent. Then we have Gloucester, his son Edgar, and his illegitimate son Edmund. In KC, Leah's loyal friend is Kendall, who's dating Gladys. Gladys and Edie are sisters, and Munroe is their new step-brother.
You see where we're going here?
With Twelfth Grade Night, I painstakingly went over the core aspects of the original play and how well they were all handled. Here, since I have less of an emotional attachment to the groundwork, I'll just split this review up without any specific order.
1. Leah
As I said above, Lear's descent into insanity is given a much lighter treatment in here. Early on, Leah's anxieties manifest themselves in a vision of her past self whom she talks with in front of other people, becoming a point of concern for them - especially Kent/Kendall.
Leah's central journey in this book is about her demisexuality and how she doesn't feel "queer enough" because of her identity. She faces some hate speech but ultimately finds acceptance and understanding among her friends. There's also her nervousness about going off to college and not getting into her top choice - good relatable stuff.
With that being said, the book opens with Leah deciding to crown the new cheer captain via the "Pom Squad Spirit Send-Off," a celebration scheduled to happen when Leah graduates. However, she pushes the tradition forward, and Rae and Gabe give flowery, praise-filled speeches for their auditions. Cora, however, refuses to participate, and is subsequently kicked off the team by Leah. As for what happens next... that'll be in the next section!
Just like the original Lear, Leah eventually realizes she made the wrong choice by kicking out Cora and being so rude to Kendall, and apologies are made. With so many characters, I don't know if Leah is MC exactly, but her arc was handled well.
2. Rae and Gabe (and Conrad and Alby)
With Leah as captain, the cheer team has never before won a tournament. As co-captains, Rae and Gabe decide to throw out the team's pom-poms and push everyone to dangerous limits in order to better themselves. Are they going too far?
As a non-cheerleader, this whole aspect confused me (and still does). Is it really a good thing if Leah was so lax with the team that they never won anything? As a sports team, wouldn't it look better on their transcripts if they had a few victories under their belts? I'm not saying they should hurt themselves, obviously - Gabe and Rae are clearly pushing everyone too far - but is making the team "an inclusive environment for everyone!" the best tactic when Leah isn't even trying to win? I don't know, no one ever brings this up, so maybe it's not a problem. I just couldn't help thinking the twins had the right idea with the wrong execution.
As in KL, KC leads to the twins kicking Leah out of the squad and then, later on, kicking her out of a Halloween party and leaving her in the snow. It's very KL-accurate.
In KL, Regan's husband Cornwall dies. In KC, Rae just dumps Conrad halfway through. In KL, Goneril's husband Albany becomes sympathetic toward Lear and turns on his wife. In KC, Alby takes the same arc with his boyfriend.
There's also some fun stuff with Edmund/Munroe, but I'll get to that in the next section.
I really liked how, near the end of King Cheer, Rae's near-injury causes Gabe to panic and both twins to reconsider everything they've done to get to this point. It's humanizing and surprisingly sympathetic - I liked their ending a lot more than I thought I would. It's genuinely nice how there's no true villain in this book!
3. Gladys, Edie, and Munroe
This was the part I was the most looking forward to. Edmund, that cunning bastard, is probably my favorite KL character, and I was very excited for his arc. In here, Gladys and Edie are sisters with vast basketball success - unlike Munroe, their new step-brother. With his dad neglecting Munroe for his step-sisters, Munroe vows to break them up and get his revenge.
Munroe was a good sympathetic character, just like his source material, and I REALLY liked how he was given the nickname "Base" by his teammates because he "can't even make a basket from the baseline." In the original play, Edmund is called "Base" because it means "bastard." So that was a fantastic connection.
In KL, Edmund forges letters from his brother to trick Gloucester. In KC, Munroe forges texts from Edie to trick Gladys. He befriends Rae and Gabe to manipulate the cheer team and cause greater strife for Gladys and her basketball team. And, just like the original play, Munroe flirts with both twins in order to seize their loyalty. Now that's fun!
I cannot vocalize just how much I appreciated the resolution of Gladys, Edie, and Munroe's relationship. Even in KL, when Edmund is dying, Edgar agrees with his brother that Gloucester mistreated him. The three siblings standing together in here was lovely.
There's also some stuff about Gladys hogging the gym for her basketball team and neglecting the cheer team, so that was nicely resolved. (Also, there was a part where I really thought she might lose an eye.) I found Gladys a bit of a frustrating character, but she was fine overall. Speaking of her...
4. Kendall
...Gladys is dating Kendall!
It's a connection that really works in here. Kendall is also Leah's best friend. Just like their namesake, Kendall follows Leah down whatever path she takes, staying loyally by her side and repeatedly telling her that she's making the wrong choices. I liked how Gladys told Kendall that they sometimes need to set boundaries, as they call out Leah's jerkish behavior then turn around and text Leah repeatedly to try and help her. In KL, Kent is exceeding loyal to Lear to the point of danger, so I liked this dynamic being recreated in KC.
In KL, Kent finds Lear in the snowstorm and leads him to a shack. There, they warm up and find Edgar, who is in disguise. In KC, Kendall finds Leah after the twins kick her out of the Halloween party and leads her to a shed. There, they warm up and find Edie in costume as a mascot. It took me a second to figure out who the bird was, and when I realized "oh, it's Edie in disguise, just like Edgar!" I was duly impressed.
All this brings us to the last central character...
5. Cora
In the first act of King Lear, Cordelia is disowned by her father and marries the King of France. In here, Cordelia is a member of the French club, and its president has a crush on her. Early on, I liked this retelling element and could see where it was leading. However, KC decided to change all of this for no reason.
Instead of getting with Mr. President, Cora confesses to Kendall that she doesn't like him - she has a crush on a girl who "doesn't know [she] exist[s]" and wants advice. This just had me throwing up my hands, because why?
Look, I will never complain about adding queer characters to modern retellings! Hell, almost the entire cast of this book is some flavor of queer! But why sabotage the Cordelia/France plotline of the original play so utterly? Hell, just make the King into the Queen, and there you go!
I will never be invested in a romance where one characters sighs and says "I like A, but they don't know I exist." Then that's NOTHING! You don't like this person at all if you have NO connection with them! That's so boring from a reader's perspective, too!
Cora gets paired off with one of the last remaining single girls in the book (can you guess who?) and that's her whole plotline. I did like her relationship with Leah and Kendall and Alby, and her character got good resolution. It was just the full abandoning of the King of France part that frustrated me. This is like when Twelfth Grade Night tried to give us Sebastian/Puck when Antonio was literally right there. Why mess with success??
Anyhow.
With all this being said - I really liked the artwork and use of colors in here. I was very unintersted in the dramatic plotline of Tanya and Ron's break-up and reunion. They're the only characters from book 1 who make a reappearance - which makes total sense, given the influx of new characters here - but I could not care less. There's already so much going on plot-wise, why throw in another tangent that's not even about King Lear?
But, even if I complain, I really can't deny how well all of these varying plot points tied together and became so perfectly resolved. I felt like Twelfth Grade Night wasn't long enough, and that had half the cast! In here, the pacing felt so much better.
So, are we getting queer Midsummer Night's Dream yet? Or Othello? Maybe even Tempest? I'm here for this - these books are great fun.
3.75/5 stars!
March 31, 2024
This is inside the same high school, but with no overlap to the first book other than two characters in the background. I was pretty letdown by this because the storyline here was really villain heavy and introduced a ton of new characters. It took a lot to get used to it and then the wrap up felt rushed. I don’t think I’ll continue on with this series.
February 9, 2024
A delightful follow up to Twelfth Grade Night! I loved the dread twins, Jessie and James...er, I mean, Gabe and Rae. This book had great queer rep and body diversity, and I loved how they adapted King Lear for the fantasy high school setting. I can't wait to see more Arden High books!!
June 12, 2024
I liked Twelfth Grade Night better, this felt like too much packed into a short amount of time and, even knowing the play, it was a little confusing and disjointed. But still cute and I like how it could introduce some kids to Shakespeare in an approachable way.
May 19, 2024
I told myself I would not read this after how much I disliked Twelfth grade night, but here we are I suppose. It shouldn’t really surprise me, but I disliked this even more than Twelfth grade night. It’s a shame because there were some really good messages about gatekeeping in the queer community and how you can’t be “not queer enough”. Unfortunately these messages feel like an afterthought since it’s buried under all of the petty drama that happens when you’re a stressed out high schooler. This also had some of the most unlikeable characters I have ever seen, and somehow they all pretty much get forgiven at the end like it was nothing. I could probably rant about this some more but I don’t have the energy honestly
(Side note: why were the two main antagonists team rocket?? It was really strange and made everything feel disjointed in a really weird way)
(Side note: why were the two main antagonists team rocket?? It was really strange and made everything feel disjointed in a really weird way)
July 1, 2025
Content warnings: bullying, toxic relationship, aphobia, toxic friendship
3.25 stars
I loved the first book in this series and it's so rare that a King Lear retelling appears that I was really excited about this one. But there was something about this that didn't QUITE work for me. I can't work out if it's the sheer number of characters or the fact that the art style sometimes made it difficult to distinguish between the characters, but I struggled to keep track of who was who. Also sometimes it leaned reeeeeeeeeal hard into the King Lear of it all and other times it almost abandoned the retelling altogether and ultimately I feel like I would have liked it more if I knew less about King Lear...
3.25 stars
I loved the first book in this series and it's so rare that a King Lear retelling appears that I was really excited about this one. But there was something about this that didn't QUITE work for me. I can't work out if it's the sheer number of characters or the fact that the art style sometimes made it difficult to distinguish between the characters, but I struggled to keep track of who was who. Also sometimes it leaned reeeeeeeeeal hard into the King Lear of it all and other times it almost abandoned the retelling altogether and ultimately I feel like I would have liked it more if I knew less about King Lear...
September 1, 2024
rassurée que mon avis soit celui général! j’avais adoré le premier roman graphique mais alors celui-là n’a rien à voir : l’histoire n’a aucun sens, la représentation queer est too much, la fantasy a pop up d’un coup ?? je savais pas qui était qui et vrm y a des problématiques sans intérêt ni signification genre pas de moral j’étais là ah ok tt ça pr ça mais du coup pourquoi faire ??? vrm nul dsl parfois faut dire les termes, je recommande pas du tout.
(2 ⭐️ goes to the artwork.)
(2 ⭐️ goes to the artwork.)
December 31, 2024
Nothing but love and respect for Jessie and James' origin story!!! Team Rocket's blasting off again!!!!
This was a more chill read because I don't really know the plot of King Lear that well so I wasn't looking for the plot beats, but I also cared way less because I don't really know the plot of King Lear that well so I wasn't looking for the plot beats.
This was a more chill read because I don't really know the plot of King Lear that well so I wasn't looking for the plot beats, but I also cared way less because I don't really know the plot of King Lear that well so I wasn't looking for the plot beats.
June 10, 2024
June Disney Publishing Book Club Pick 1/2
This was probably my favorite so far of our DPW book club picks. I thought it was super cute & queer. An excellent pride month read. I do think the resolution to the story was a little rushed.
This was probably my favorite so far of our DPW book club picks. I thought it was super cute & queer. An excellent pride month read. I do think the resolution to the story was a little rushed.
November 21, 2024
Number one reason why I’m not in cheer
June 26, 2024
Beautiful artwork as always but unfortunately I saw less charm in this one than I did in Twelfth Night. Way too many characters, plot lines, to the point that it all got really muddled and confusing so the pacing was all over the place. I think my main issue is that there really weren’t many likeable or nuanced characters. Don’t get me wrong I absolutely want to see what the authors/artists make next, but I just wasn’t a fan of the format and storyline of this one personally. Also as many have mentioned- team rocket.
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August 7, 2024i liked the colors (and especially the panels that were just solid neon colors)
April 25, 2024
As a retelling, this is marginally successful. Strohm and Booth keep the major plot points of the play one would expect, but the side plot suffers. The inclusion feels forced and adds unnecessary conflict that proves to be little more than a distraction.Throughout, the character introductions prove confusing. Names are not said and their relevance is unclear. Additionally, the artistic elements of the story have mixed results. Green’s use of lines are vivid, helping create lively and energetic cheer moves. However, the use of color muddies understanding. A discolored version of Leah is used as her consciousness. These panels are important, helping guide a lot of the internal conflict.Yet, the illustrator uses these discolored characters to sometimes mean different emotions, a character shaded all in red when angry, which makes the overall comprehension difficult. Overall, the biggest strength of the piece is the diversity. Almost every character in this story identifies as queer or a person of color. The authors have made a natural, diverse world without it having to be the sole focus of the story. The conflict of being waitlisted and unsure of your future is refreshing; the exploration of questioning validity within your queer identity is done thoughtfully. Overall, this story includes some necessary conversations, even if the art doesn’t always support the storytelling.
March 8, 2024
3.5 🌟
on retourne dans l’univers d’Arden High qui cette fois ci s’inspire du Roi Lear de Shakespeare ; si le premier tome s’est inspiré de La nuit des rois que je connaissais très bien et dont j’ai pu reconnaître tous les petits clins d’œils dispersés au fil du récit, dans ce tome ci malheureusement je n’avais pas les références (puisque je n’ai pas lu la pièce) et était donc parfois un peu perdue dans l’intrigue…
malgré ce point qui m’a un peu frustrée, pas besoin de connaître les œuvres de Shakespeare pour apprécié sa lecture ! l’histoire est prenante et parlera à beaucoup de personnes puisqu’à travers les différents personnages, elle aborde la découverte de soi, l’amitié et le courage de faire face à son avenir.
j’avoue avoir eu un peu de mal avec le personnage de Leah : si j’ai compris ses inquiétudes vis à vis de sa scolarité, j’ai tout de même trouvé ses réactions too much vis à vis de son entourage… mais elle réussis à avoir une belle remise en question, grâce notamment à ses ami.es !
j’ai aimé les questionnements abordés autour de son identité, de son orientation sexuelle, de trouver sa place dans une famille recomposée ou encore de ses relations amicales et amoureuses parfois toxiques.
c’est donc une comédie dramatique queer que j’ai apprécié par ses illustrations, sa palette de couleurs mais aussi par les messages défendus tout au long de l’histoire !
on retourne dans l’univers d’Arden High qui cette fois ci s’inspire du Roi Lear de Shakespeare ; si le premier tome s’est inspiré de La nuit des rois que je connaissais très bien et dont j’ai pu reconnaître tous les petits clins d’œils dispersés au fil du récit, dans ce tome ci malheureusement je n’avais pas les références (puisque je n’ai pas lu la pièce) et était donc parfois un peu perdue dans l’intrigue…
malgré ce point qui m’a un peu frustrée, pas besoin de connaître les œuvres de Shakespeare pour apprécié sa lecture ! l’histoire est prenante et parlera à beaucoup de personnes puisqu’à travers les différents personnages, elle aborde la découverte de soi, l’amitié et le courage de faire face à son avenir.
j’avoue avoir eu un peu de mal avec le personnage de Leah : si j’ai compris ses inquiétudes vis à vis de sa scolarité, j’ai tout de même trouvé ses réactions too much vis à vis de son entourage… mais elle réussis à avoir une belle remise en question, grâce notamment à ses ami.es !
j’ai aimé les questionnements abordés autour de son identité, de son orientation sexuelle, de trouver sa place dans une famille recomposée ou encore de ses relations amicales et amoureuses parfois toxiques.
c’est donc une comédie dramatique queer que j’ai apprécié par ses illustrations, sa palette de couleurs mais aussi par les messages défendus tout au long de l’histoire !
December 17, 2024
3 stars
disclaimer: i also haven't read king lear! which probably would have enhanced my understanding of this retelling! but oh well!
same deal as the first book in this series: the art is BEAUTIFUL, the story is eh. this time around i ended up being a little confused because there are A LOT of characters and i'm not familiar with the original story. even so, parts were really cute, and i'll definitely read any more from this series that come out.
disclaimer: i also haven't read king lear! which probably would have enhanced my understanding of this retelling! but oh well!
same deal as the first book in this series: the art is BEAUTIFUL, the story is eh. this time around i ended up being a little confused because there are A LOT of characters and i'm not familiar with the original story. even so, parts were really cute, and i'll definitely read any more from this series that come out.
February 11, 2024
4.5/5 stars — it was a LOT to pack into this small of a graphic novel but I just love the arden high series wholeheartedly!!! and edie in the falcon costume had no right to be that funny 😭😭😭😭
Plot: 5/5
Characters: 4/5
Pacing: 4/5
Writing: 4/5
Enjoyment: 5/5
Art: 5/5
Plot: 5/5
Characters: 4/5
Pacing: 4/5
Writing: 4/5
Enjoyment: 5/5
Art: 5/5
March 3, 2024
this was so unbelievably confusing anyway it was also cute
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March 27, 2024This was alright - probably didn't work as well for me because I'm not *as* familiar with King Leer, but I didn't dislike this and would read more in the world
July 5, 2024
3.5 stars
August 15, 2024
guyz I LUVVVVV GRAPHIC NOVELS!!!!
January 1, 2025
Last book of 2024! This was cute. I forgot how much I miss light graphic novels.
February 17, 2025
Adorable. Hilarious. Heartwarming.
September 14, 2025
Beaux dessins.
L'histoire est difficile à suivre. Il y a trop de prénoms et c'est confus. Plusieurs histoires se mêlent mais je n'ai pas tout compris.
Ce n'était pas vraiment pour moi.
2.5🌟
L'histoire est difficile à suivre. Il y a trop de prénoms et c'est confus. Plusieurs histoires se mêlent mais je n'ai pas tout compris.
Ce n'était pas vraiment pour moi.
2.5🌟
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