Trish Trash #1: Rollergirl of Mars

author: Jessica Abel
name: Wayne
average rating: 3.37
book published:
rating: 2
read at: 2016/11/18
date added: 2016/11/18
shelves: graphic-novels
review:
'Trish Trash #1: Rollergirl of Mars' by Jessica Abel has a lot of story elements thrown at the reader. There are also some confusing things that are not explained.

Patricia Nupindju lives on Mars with her aunt and uncle. She helps them on their settlement, but she loves roller derby. When she hears there are try-outs, she wants to join, but she is only 7 1/2 and the minimum age is nine. She skips school to try out and makes the team, sort of. Along the way, she has a fight with her best friend, has to break the news to her aunt and uncle, and finds an unusual inhabitant on the family farm.

I realize it's only issue one, and I really prefer if my stories don't spoon feed me everything, but there were things here that just didn't make sense. She's 7 1/2? Is that in martian years? Because she looks like a teenager (or older). She seems good at skating, but how did that happen? Where does she practice? It seems like she's just magically better than everyone around her. When she and her best friend fight, I just don't care, because he is barely in the story. Add to that the problem I had with the slangy language that narrated the book, and I just didn't care for it.

I received a review copy of this graphic novel from Super Genius, Papercutz, and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this graphic novel.


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