Haiku Reviews: The Last Days, The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl, Flygirl

Trying out something new. Instead of regular old mini reviews, it’s haiku reviews! That’s much more fun, right? Well, I had fun.

I went with the 5-7-5 set-up, and since one haiku seemed too little for some of them, I did at least two for each book. So, read each review as a whole, not each haiku as separate poems.

The Last Days by Scott Westerfeld
Publication: Razorbill (August 2, 2007), Paperback, 272 pages / ISBN 1595141286
Genre: Paranormal, Teen
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Read: June 2009

Improvement on Peeps–
Rock and roll saves the planet;
Romance, action, fun.

Creepy vampires,
Still hate them and their bug eyes.
Glad this is last book.

Good book, but I
Prefer my vamps virus-free;
(And with smaller eyes).

The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl by Barry Lyga
Publication: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children (October 2, 2006), Hardcover, 320 pages / ISBN 0618723927
Genre: Fiction, Teen
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Read: June 2009

Hated everyone,
Worried ’bout them anyway;
Won’t read sequel, though.

Why did I care then?
The writing made me do it.
Would read another.

Just not one with them.
Too much like 90′s teen film;
I’ve moved on from that.

Flygirl by Sherri L. Smith
Publication: Putnam Juvenile (January 22, 2009), Hardcover, 256 pages / ISBN 0399247092
Genre: Historical Fiction, YA
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Read: June 2009

Excellent story;
Good discussion about race
And gender inside.

Tries a little hard
To get the point across, but
Would be good for schools.