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Review: Brody's Ghost Volume 3

Brody's Ghost Volume 3 Brody's Ghost Volume 3 by Mark Crilley
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

A review, but first some backstory:

I started this series a whopping four years ago. There was this bind up of the first two books at the Scholastic Book Fair and I jumped at the opportunity to buy it. That was near the end of my weeaboo phase, and I had been watching Mark Crilley's manga tutorials on YouTube since grade five, which was the start of my weeaboo phase. I loved the first two volumes, but I never continued on with the series for a couple reasons.

First: I just couldn't find the next books! Every single time I went to my local Chapters store I always searched for Brody's Ghost, but they never had them in stock. I could have talked to an employee and asked them to order the next book for me but... well, obviously I didn't. And I never ordered online back then either. Those were simple times.

Second: It was just plain confusing. I didn't even know that my copy was a bind up until almost 2 years ago when I joined Goodreads. I went crazy with the scan tool on the Goodreads app and scanned ALL my books. When I got to my volume of Brody's Ghost this popped up: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1.... Brody's Ghost, Book 1 (Brody's Ghost #1-2)!?!?!?!?! WHAT!? Back then it didn't even have a cover on Goodreads. I was in distress. This whole time I had been searching for the second book but... I actually needed the third?! That also confused me. So yeah. I just never got around to buying the third volume.... UNTIL NOW!!

So now that you know my life story, on with the review!

I still watch Crilley's videos to this day, and it's really weird but funny to be reading something that he has written. While reading it I imagined him sitting at a desk with paper in front of him and a pencil in his hand, thinking up all the ideas I was then reading. I quite liked the subtle sense of humor and even laughed out loud a couple times. Sometimes because of Crilley, other times it was just me imagining something silly a character could have said to make the situation funny. *cough* Read my reading notes to see what I mean. Ahem.

The story was interesting and it ended kind of intense, kind of cliffhanger-y. But it doesn't matter because I have all the books now! Something I never knew was how small these are. They're short and skinny, quite the contrast to my taller and thicker bind up. For some reason I always thought (hoped) the rest would match it, but I knew they were going to be quite skinny considering my bind up isn't super thick to begin with. So I feel like it would have been annoying to read these as they were coming out just because of how short they are and how fast they read.

So yeah :D. I got the last three books staring at me from my shelf so I better get on them.


Click to read all of my Brody's Ghost Reviews:
Volume 1 and 2 (N/A)
Volume 3
Volume 4
Volume 5
Volume 6

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