| Title | : | Dungeon Club: Time to Party (Dungeons \u0026 Dragons: Dungeon Club, #2) |
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| ISBN | : | 0063039265 |
| ISBN-10 | : | 9780063039261 |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 208 |
| Publication | : | Published July 9, 2024 |
Olivia loves being the Dungeon Master of her after-school club, creating a world with magic and epic battles with adventure around every corner. She’s always felt at home in her game, but now—with new members and new plotlines—her world has gotten more complicated than ever.
It doesn’t help when Olivia’s older sister, Lu, comes home from college and brushes off all Olivia’s hard work, telling her to get real. A seed of doubt is planted, and suddenly the colorful world of her game starts to fade around her. Will Olivia be able to keep everything from changing, or will the party fall apart?
Dungeon Club: Time to Party (Dungeons \u0026 Dragons: Dungeon Club, #2) Reviews
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Joyful, hopeful, and full of heart. The second installment of this beautiful graphic novel continues to explore the hardships of middle school. The bullies, making new friends and the changes we are scared to go through as we grow. It also shows how D&D creates a safe for people, no matter their age, to explore who they are without the pressures of our own society.
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This might be one of my favorite dnd graphic novels! I love the mix of real life drama and game play drama! I also love how most of the time it truly sticks to dnd rules and such. Great writing!!
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4.5 I need them to never stop making these I LOVE
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i think this was even better than the first - just so cute and lovely and full of heart <3 i really love the parallel drama of the d&d storyline and the characters' real life friendships and also the CHARACTER DESIGN!!! the art in general is just so adorable and lively, this really warmed my heart. a fantastic feel good read perfect for a summer afternoon :)
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I somehow loved this one even more than the first one WOW
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"I've always had a world in my head"
ahhhh I am loving this series so much! The details really make the story and the conflicts, relationships, and character arcs are so real and natural. It's really cool seeing how great both the campaign story and the real story are, how balanced they are with page space, and especially when they overlap a bit as is true to every campaign I've been in. I also want to be Ms. Brehse soooo badly. A critical success of a series <3 -
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AHH and now I have to wait for a third one?!!?!!
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Just as heartfelt as the first, but this time delving deeper than just evolving friendships and looking at the whole party's characters: from changing familial relationships, dealing with bullying and anxiety, expressing gender, and handling romance and crushes, as well as saving the D&D world from a sister who wants to summon a demon and DESTROY ALL.
It did feel like there were more D&D scenes, which might be less engaging for those who came just for a fun graphic novel about friends, but I found them even more engrossing than book one's, as it seemed to be more cohesive, leading up to an epic showdown rather than scenes of the party bonding.
I'll definitely book talk this series come the start of the school year, and can't wait for the third volume!
Pre-read:
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Olivia and Jess have been friends for years, and much of their friendship is tied to their shared interest in Dungeons & Dragons. When they started in middle school, they founded a D&D Club and had to expand their group to include a new player, Tyler. Now they are enjoying the fact that Sam and Sammi have joined up as well.
Olivia is struggling a bit, though. She has always been the groups DM, and she loves the creativity and ad libbing she gets to do as they work through the quests she designs. The process is not going as smoothly, though. She is finding it difficult to be deft on her toes as the players make their way thoguh different situations.
Her older sister, Lu, has come home from college, and Lu is pretty harsh about D&D as just being a game and a waste of time. That has Olivia questdionsing her skills and her participation. Could this ruin it all for everyone.
This is a second book in the series. Besides being a great introduction to the game and a lot of terminology relating to it, the stories do a great job of exploring the challenges and difficulties of being a pre-adolescent. The characters are will developed and really respond realistically to the situations.
I love the illusration style, which seems ideal for the intended audience and the story being told. -
As a former D&D DM, I know how hard it is to make a story up on the spot. Having to create a world changing event or kill off a character without a flinch can be all consuming. So I feel for Olivia.
The Dungeon Club is back in this amazing sequel to Roll Call and we have 2 new characters. Joining Olivia, Jess and Tyler are two people we met in book 1, but they weren’t MC’s at the time. Sam and Sammi are best friends are no stranger to the stage, seeing as how they are both in theater. So asking them to join the club was a no brainer.
In this book, the D&D portion of the story has a climactic cliffhanger that ends the book, leaving us wondering how the team will get out of the pickle they’ve been thrown into. We also got some new character development with one of the MC’s coming to the realization that they are non-binary and two of the other ones having a bit of a flirty relationship that seems to be going somewhere… hopefully.
I’m really enjoying the growth from each of the two books and for a middle grade graphic novel, this is really beautiful progression. It’s turning very queer very quickly and I’m here for it! -
The art in this series continues to amaze me. I love the colors and the character designs, and I especially appreciate how the characters look their age. All too often, I've seen fictional high schoolers who look like 25-year-olds; but every character in this series just screams "awkward transition between middle school and high school." I love how gawky some of them look, and it's endearing to see details such as braces included in their designs.
The story doesn't feel as complete as it did in the first book, but I assume that certain plot lines will carry over into a third installment. I'm delighted by Jess's new plot line, in part because I was hoping it would happen (seeing as I saw myself reflected in Jess) and also because it was executed brilliantly. I love the conversations that Jess has with Olivia and their dad, which fit in with the overall wholesomeness of this series. The heavier moments are heartbreaking and relatable, but I remain confident that everyone will come out okay in the end! -
I adored this adorable, moving story! A group of friends add players to their D&D club, try to survive middle school, and also tells the adventure story of their characters in the game! Molly Knox Ostertag and Xanthe Bouma do a wonderful job of showing the way that tabletop role playing games can help people to explore ideas about friendship, self expression, identity, gender, self concept, and the value of creativity. It does a good job of realistically showing middle school drama in a way that was honestly painful, without being maudlin. I wept when one character came out to their friend and father. It was pretty on the nose at times, but that didn't bother me. And, it accomplished what I never thought someone could: it made me reconsider my "No 5e" position! I am just as invested in finding out how Corius and the party save Waterdeep as I am in seeing how the kids' friendships grow in high school. Now I HAVE to find the first book!
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kendrick drop another diss track tiktok audio but its molly knox ostertag drop another piece of propaganda for wizards of the coast.
there is no sophomore slump for this series! olivia, jess, and all of their friends continue to be middle schoolers who experience very middle school things, and i really appreciate how everything is handled! olivia's older sister's woes bleeding into olivia's perception of herself, jess realizing that staying the same person might not be possible, tyler internalizing all of the bullying he's gone through, it's all there and it all feels very real.
love these kids can't wait to use my bookseller powers to get people to read these books -
Man, this made me miss playing DnD!
Once again, Molly Knox Ostertag and Xanthe Bouma give us a fun, sweet story full of beautiful art, well-rounded characters and rollicking Dungeons and Dragons shenanigans. All of that is mixed in with some important lessons about family, friendship, bullying, and the pressures all of those can bring.
Where the first volume of Dungeon Club focused more on Jess, this one puts Olivia in the spotlight, as she struggles with insecurities around her love of DnD, which her family dismisses as silly and something to grow out of. I think a lot of us know how much it can shake our passion for the things we enjoy when someone (especially someone we love) acts like it doesn't matter. The story does a wonderful job of showing that.
There are also some new characters to get to know, plus the ones we've already come to love, who get their own plotlines to explore, both in and away from the DnD table. Whether they're figuring out their adventuring characters, navigating the choppy waters of the schoolyard, or coming to realizations about their own identities, these are charming characters who you feel pretty instantly engaged with.
A great read for all ages! -
Oh. My. God. I freaked out!!!
My brain…
Okay, first, awesome! Every element of me ✨.
It’s got a lot of LGBTQ things (which I’m a huge fan of for some reason) from questioning gender to sexuality.
The art style is bomb.
The plot in the D&D world and irl is also ✨.
The characters are ALSO ✨.
I didn’t expect Sam and Tyler, but I can tell that’s going to be a thing, and, of course, I love it.
Overall, this book was amazing, somehow better than the Witch Boy which says a lot coming from me.
I love this book so so so much! (Also, I just started playing D&D, so I learned quite a bit from this book, too.)
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I enjoyed this even more than the first volume! I was way more invested in the D&D storyline, which gets really exciting and actually ends on a cliffhanger. I've become attached to the characters, and I still appreciate the mix of real life and roleplaying related issues. DM Olivia struggles with needing to feel constantly in control of the story, and Tyler, one of the players, struggles with social anxiety. It's a great balance, especially because roleplaying problems reflect real life problems, and vice versa. I'm really looking forward to the next book in the series.
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listen. listen! the first dungeon club is one of my favorite graphic novels ever, and the sequel delivered just as well! I love the characters and the juxtaposition of the in game adventure and the real world challenges the players face, and how they all grow and become closer. plus the queer storytelling, masterful! d&d is super queer!!! I'll be excitedly awaiting any and every book to come! so wonderful and so joyful, I'm inspired and so happy!
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This volume was just as much fun as the first. I like to listen to the audiobook while reading along with the physical copy for a truly immersive experience! The audio has a full cast and really fun sound effects- it's a really great time.
This volume covers a lot in so very few pages- gender identity, coming of age, found family, bullying and obviously a D&D campaign. There's some really beautiful moments shared between the friend group and their respective families I have a lot of love for this series and can't wait to see how the story develops! -
An absolutely wonderful series. I work at a library, and after reading the first book, I was recommending it to every child that came in, who seemed even remotely interested in anything fantasy related haha
It is beautifully illustrated, and the story is so engaging in ways I'm sure many children (and adults, of course) will be able to resonate with.
I will continue recommending this series up the wazoo haha
My one complaint is that the cliffhanger at the end means I have to wait a long time for the next volume haha -
This book was so good I didn’t want to put it down for a second. It was full of heart and extremely relatable. I loved reading about how the characters truly became themselves while playing Dnd. And just the way the character dynamics were developing! So good!!! I really hope there’s another because I can’t get enough of this series!
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I love these books. The fact that the story highlights how D&D can allow people to explore different genders, personalities and beliefs is amazing. It's a great way to illustrate confliction resolution and so many other things.
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(4.5) beautiful art and relatable themes! A bit of a cliffhanger though
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Positively delightful. No notes.
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I'll read anything by Molly Knox Ostertag. I hope this series continues because it's so great to see the world growing and expanding.
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Very very cute :]
