Hotel Dare

author: Terry Blas
name: Wayne
average rating: 3.95
book published: 2019
rating: 3
read at: 2019/06/17
date added: 2019/06/17
shelves: childrens, graphic-novels
review:
'Hotel Dare' by Terry Blas with art by Claudia Aquirre is a graphic novel about the importance of family, even if that family is from other worlds.

Darwin, Charlotte and Olive find themselves spending a vacation at Grandma Lupe's hotel. Vacation here means cleaning the rooms. Along the way, they learn some strange secrets about the hotel. The rooms are portals to other dimensions with wizards and spaceships and carnivorous puffballs. They also find out that Grandma Lupe knows about this. They set out to help solve the biggest mystery.

The story is just ok. It's a mystery door type story. I had a hard time feeling much for these characters. I didn't think the art was that great. I don't know why kid's books always get the short end on art. Also, one of the characters states she is queer, although I don't know why since that really goes nowhere in the story, and is basically stated in passing. I state it in case that is something you don't want in your kid's books.

I received a review copy of this graphic novel from KaBOOM! and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this graphic novel.


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