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Forecast today: cloudy with a chance I’ll kick your ass

Cracked is two parts kick ass and three parts funny. I love that the way she puts things: always with a tinge of disdain that’s truthful/honest but never failing to be funny. The world is split with things coming after her, but she could still snark it up. Little observations and the hilarious constant running internal monologues of hers were punctuated by some pretty intense battle scenes, but it’s the before that (meaning, the hilarious internal monologue of her holding everyone/everything in accurate but, again, hilarious disdain that had me loving her story more.)


(“One of God’s misbegotten creatures- big like grown ups and yet dumb like children. Selfish, moody, reckless with a tendency to sleep too much and complain too often… I’m a teenager too, but I take exception to the human part.”)

(“I study the little creature in front of me. What is it about these dwarfish little humans? They lack smarts, lack skills and they never seem to have much money. Yet they are powerful little monsters- adults dance to the tunes played by their chubby little fingers. Is it the disproportionately big head? Or the eyes too bug for that head?)


But beyond her hilarious matter of factness on why and what and how things are, it’s her discovering these new connections that made reading this something more than just funny. All those what am I’s on her part also had her asking who are they to me? And it was fun seeing her balance things and feelings out… especially considering what saw in them.

Another breath of fresh air is how non-romance-y this was… well, at least for her. The people she finds herself with ( “Chi might be an idiot, but it’s a heroic kind of idiocy./ She’s classy kind of girl) are different and it’s them that had her seeing possibilities… in the mean time, I’m laughing and having a good time, because this book not once took itself too seriously. So the world’s ending? So what? Meda only got funnier with each thing she’d say/think/describe.

Thank you NG!