Isle of the Books

Mickey Malloy, Wonder Boy! , by Laurisa White Reyes, is a children's book, geared for ages 6-10. " Mickey Malloy is just your average kid who loves comic books and superheroes. When a mysterious package arrives with his name on it, he finds a strange contraption inside. Urged on by his friend, Juanita, Mickey pushes the thing’s button and gets ZZZZZZAPPED! Suddenly, he ism’t a normal kid anymore, he’s Mickey Malloy, Wonder Boy! The human magnet! But what seems like an awesome superpower gets Mickey into more trouble than he could possibly imagine. "-Goodreads The premise of the book interested me because it's about a normal kid who gets what he thinks might be a superpower, only to see his day go downhill. Mickey just wants to be able to walk around again without being a human magnet and I wanted to see how he would handle this new ability, which led to me reading it in one sitting. I haven't read a kid's chapter book since I was that age, so I forgot th...

I've had this tagged saved to do for forever, and finally got around to actually doing it. 1. A CHARACTER’S APPEARANCE THAT YOU MISREAD OR IMAGINED DIFFERENTLY: Blitzen from the Magnus Chase series 2. A CHARACTER NAME THAT YOU’VE BEEN PRONOUNCING WRONG: I pronounce lots of character names from fantasy books wrong (because they're made up so it's not like people say them everyday), but the one that sticks out to me is Chaol from Throne of Glass. I said it like coal the whole time, and when I read the actual pronunciation I stuck to it for a while. Then it turned into "saying coal is quicker than kay-all, so I'm not going to bother getting it right all the time." 3. AN OVERUSED TROPE THAT IS YOUR GUILTY PLEASURE: The mysterious bad-boy love interest/character. I know they're overused, but I find them interesting to read because  they're not all like that for the same reason. 4. A CLICHÉ CHARACTER TYPE THAT YOU LIKE BETTER ON SCREEN THAN REA...