{"id":26620,"date":"2022-10-04T08:00:05","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T08:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=26620"},"modified":"2022-10-03T15:45:34","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T15:45:34","slug":"sheets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2022\/10\/04\/sheets\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheets"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nBy Brenna Thummler<\/strong> (The Lion Forge\/Cub House\/Oni Press)
\nISBN: 978-1-941302-67-5 (TPB\/Digital edition)<\/p>\n

Win\u2019s Christmas Gift Recommendation: Spirited Fun for All\u2026 9\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n

Gloom, doom and death cling to Marjorie Glatt<\/em> like static. The weary youngster is bullied at school and harassed at home. That\u2019s because she spends every waking moment trying to keep the family business going under ever-escalating pressure. The laundromat was her mom\u2019s refuge, dream and legacy, where they all lived safe, happy and warm above the washers and driers.<\/p>\n

\u2026And then Mom drowned.<\/p>\n

Situated on a quiet bend of the coast, Finster Bay is like any other small town: everybody lives for themselves and is only concerned with what they want and need, and no one sees how 13-year-old Marj is daily being sucked ever-downwards. Since the funeral she\u2019s now stuck with school, keeping a home and even feeding the family since dad had his breakdown and withdrew from reality.<\/p>\n

The Glatts are deep in debt and Marj\u2019s little brother Owen<\/em> is a typical boy brat who won\u2019t help unless he\u2019s bribed\u2026<\/p>\n

The rich mean girls have singled her out for special attention and nasty yoga guy Nigel Saubertuck<\/em> keeps breaking in, terrorising her by sabotaging all her attempts to turn Glatt\u2019s (formerly Delaway\u2019s) Laundry around. He even smugly boasts of it, saying he\u2019ll take their prime location for his proposed spa centre and make them all work for him folding towels\u2026<\/p>\n

That\u2019s not even worst of it, either. Adding to Marj\u2019s woes is the distraction of inexplicably attentive cute boy Colton<\/em> possibly?\/perhaps?\/maybe\/surely it can\u2019t be? liking her: a novelty that consequently attracts more the full venom fand disdain of obnoxious classmate Tessi Waffleton<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The fact that Marjorie is developing a full blown compulsive aversion to water after seeing her mother drown is mere icing on the cake, but as the floundering girl slowly sinks under impossible adult responsibilities, her stressed teen\u2019s life gets even more complicated after Wendell<\/em> starts causing trouble\u2026<\/p>\n

Finster Bay is a town doubly populated. Existing alongside the self-obsessed adults and kids is an unseen legion of dead people. The Bay is a \u201cLand of Ghosts\u201d and Wendell is having a hard time adjusting to not being alive anymore. A determined and inspired fabulist liar, the little apparition refuses to interact in the support group (DYE<\/em>: Dead Youth Empathetics), hasn\u2019t read the Book of Ghost Law he was given and won\u2019t even keep clean the standard-issue white shroud which confines and contains all that\u2019s left of him.<\/p>\n

He also died in water, and has an unrecalled deep connection to Marjie\u2026<\/p>\n

When Mr. Saubertuck makes his big move, surreptitiously adding red dye to the Glatt washers, he\u2019s thinks he\u2019s finally driven Marjorie to surrender. However, he\u2019s shockingly confronted by Wendell! The slimy schemer hasn\u2019t reckoned on an army of spooks coming to her aid, even as she at last realises the free-floating annoyance that has immensely added to her distress\u2026<\/p>\n

In the meantime, Marj has been doing some deep diving at the Library and has deduced that the overly-familiar little spectre is the little kid who saved her when she was lost years ago\u2026<\/p>\n

Wistful, charming, sadly poignant and unafraid to address both lighter and the darkest issues, Sheets<\/strong> is a sweetly refreshing tale of determination, discovery and enduring friendship, with illustrator-turned-author Brenna Thummler (Anne of Green Gables<\/strong>) delivering a remarkable and enchanting modern fable that has already spawned a sequel, and should be a favourite for generations to come.<\/p>\n

This book was released by Lion\u2019s Forge in 2018, and is available in digital formats, but is also schedule for re-release in January 2023 from Oni Press.
\n\u00a9 2018 Brenna Thummler. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Brenna Thummler (The Lion Forge\/Cub House\/Oni Press) ISBN: 978-1-941302-67-5 (TPB\/Digital edition) Win\u2019s Christmas Gift Recommendation: Spirited Fun for All\u2026 9\/10 Gloom, doom and death cling to Marjorie Glatt like static. The weary youngster is bullied at school and harassed at home. That\u2019s because she spends every waking moment trying to keep the family business … <\/p>\n

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