Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass
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3.8
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Mariko Tamaki
With just five dollars and a knapsack to her name, 15-year-old Harleen Quinzel is sent to live in Gotham City. She’s not worried, though-she’s battled a lot of hard situations as a kid, and knows her determination and outspokenness will carry her through life in the most dangerous city in the world. And when Gotham’s finest drag queen, Mama, takes her in, it seems like Harley has finally found a place to grow into her most “true true” with new best friend Ivy at Gotham High. But when Mama’s drag cabaret becomes the next victim in the wave of gentrification that’s taking over the neighborhood, Harley’s fortune takes another turn. Now Harleen is mad. In turning her anger into action, she is faced with two choices: join activist Ivy, who’s campaigning to make the neighborhood a better place to live, or team up with her anarchist friend Joker, who plans to take down Gotham one corporation at a time. From Eisner Award and Caldecott Honor-winning author Mariko Tamaki (This One Summer) and Eisner Award-nominated artist Steve Pugh comes a coming-of-age story about choices, consequences, and how a weird kid from Gotham goes about defining her world for herself.
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Author
Mariko Tamaki
Pages
182
Publisher
DC Comics
Published Date
2019-09-03
ISBN
140129880X 9781401298807
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""I think people can be a lot of things. Things you don't expect."<br/><br/>Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass is a YA Harley Quinn novel. Since Harley usually has more adult-ish storylines, I was very curious to see how this was going to play out. I was worried she was going to be cleaned up too much, but I think Mariko Tamaki did a great job adapting her for a YA audience while keeping the essence of the character intact. <br/><br/>There are a couple familiar DC faces in the book like Ivy, Joker, and Bruce Wayne. I like that Ivy was an activist - it fits with a 2019 interpretation of Ivy. This book gave Joker a little more background than I usually like, but it was fine. <br/><br/>This story was cute, and I liked it more than I thought I would. I really enjoyed the art, and I hope that there's going to be another book."
Emily
"This was an interesting novel. I didn't like the fact that it ignored her original story, but I liked Mama and Ivy."
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Lilliana Nightshade
"Action packed with interesting characters and a socially conscious everything. "
Yaoindere
