Galaxy Girl and the November Monstrosity by Aleksandra Hill

Galaxy Girl and the November Monstrosity Reviews

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  Nancy

  Family relationships can be fraught with stressful dynamics that are hard to break, as Jessie finds as she visits her mother’s home for Thanksgiving. Although she is a superhero with fire-making skills, her mother puts her sister on a pedestal and nothing Jessie does or says prevents her mother’s catty comments. When she offers to help her sister out of an embarrassing problem, there just might be a crack in her frigid relationship with her.
  
  I listened to this short story through the LeVar Burton Reads podcast.
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  Chrysten Lofton

  4.0⭐“I want, suddenly, urgently, to save my sister from the inferno of my mother’s disappointment.”
  
  **mild content spoilers**
  
  ♡ LBR 2023 ♡
  
  I am so, SO happy to plug in with these stories again on
  LeVar Burton Reads. I took a couple years to get my associate, and I can’t begin to express how difficult it was to find a free half hour in a day. I’m out of the woods, at least for a little while, and when I saw the new season update, my heart skipped a beat. Feels like a homecoming, and here I am, late to the party.
  
  This was so perfect for Thanksgiving. This is surprisingly loaded with deeper meaning, despite having a kind of airy easiness to how it reads. It hit me right in the heart. Family is a huge point of contention and discord for me, but it means everything to me to keep showing up. To keep trying. This story spoke to that.
  
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  Goodreads Official Star Representation
  5 - It was amazing
  4 - I really liked it
  3 - I liked it
  2 - It was okay
  1 - Did not like it.
  
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  Katherine

  As much as I liked this story, I felt there were some big holes in the story that really bugged me and ended up spoiling my enjoyment. Why are they making a huge Thanksgiving dinner for 3 people? Where is the father? I had so many questions that it really just ended up annoying me more than anything else.
  
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  Jennifer Zeman

  A new twist of the issues of grown-up children coming home for Thanksgiving. I loved this.
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  Katie

  I always enjoy a twist on the superhero narrative, but the family dynamics were tired.