Magic Mutant Nightmare Girl by Erin Grammar

Because of this focus, those characters felt underdeveloped. The narrative is highly focused on Holly, who often comes across as brash and insensitive as she regularly refuses to listen to other characters’ advice. The plot of the novel is simplistic and easy to follow, which worked as a great counterbalance to that. It felt a little awkward and one that clashed with the tone of the novel. However, it took me some time to get used to the writing style. Just a bunch of teenagers, trying to do their best while everything seems to go exactly the opposite way. I thoroughly enjoyed reading the shenanigans that Holly and her friends got themselves into. All the while dealing with anxiety that she hides under her fluffed up skirts and insistence of doing only what she thinks is right. She embarks on a journey to discover her powers and creating a found family. Holly, our harajaku fashion enthusiastic protagonist, inadvertently faces some people who have escaped the site of their experimentation and ends up getting superpowers. It keeps you on your toes and hungry for what happens next. It is cute, full of fluffy skirts and glitter showers. Magic Mutant Nightmare Girl is fun, fast-paced, action-filled tale of a bunch of queer mutants running around trying to catch an evil mutant. Hunting monsters with a hot new partner and his unlikely family of mad scientists? Waking up with blue blood, emotions gone haywire, and terrifying strength that starts ripping her wardrobe to shreds? Totally not cute. exploding mutants in the heart of San Francisco.īrush with destiny? Check. She’s an island of one, until advice from an amateur psychic expands her universe. Her magical girl aesthetic makes her feel beautiful-and it keeps the world at arm’s length. Holly Roads uses Harajuku fashion to distract herself from tragedy. Perfect for those obsessed with the technicolor worlds of Sailor Moon, The Umbrella Academy, and the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Fight like a magical girl in this paperback original contemporary fantasy in which a Harajuku fashionista battles mutants-and social anxiety-by teaming up with an elite group of outcasts.

Magic Mutant Nightmare Girl by Erin Grammar