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review SPOILER ALERT! 2016-03-01 07:53
MagnoVille...Just Shy of Being Awesome
Magno Girl - Joe Canzano

 

What I Thought:

 

The book was about a female superhero...but the book was not from the superhero's POV but the guy dating her!

 

Some of the jokes and situations were too funny and silly -- I loved them! -- but the jokes did get tiring at the end

 

All kinds of discrimination were made fun of and I liked how the author made us see the silliness when it comes to advertising, pregnancy etc. but the MCs continuously joked about the short stature of one of the villains.

 

The character of the teenage girl who became increasingly vapid was fun to read about but her curse was made into such a big deal and then it was solved just like that!

 

I enjoyed every conversation that Magno Girl had with her mother. They were all laugh out loud funny! It also made sense that Sandra would use the issues that Magno Girl had as a curse.

 

Legalman was my favorite character -- he would find a reason to sue you even if it killed him you!

 

I do not know what it was but I kept wanting to put the book away and could not gobble it in one go. I kept wanting to enjoy it and get hooked but that didn't happen. That is why, I am rating it 2.5 rather than 3 stars. However, if you want to try something unusual and funny, Magno Girl is a good idea!

 

#MagnoGirlWillAweYou #SuperheroesAndTheirTightPants #SuperheroesAndAdvertising #LegalmanWasTooGood

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review 2015-11-08 18:36
Fantastic!
Magno Girl - Joe Canzano

So, I won this in a Booklikes giveaway a while ago.   I didn't mean to take this long reading this book, especially after I got sucked in.  I just went on a Humble Bundle comics kick, and got sucked into that.   Sometimes I just work better with particular formats of book, and I wanted PDF comics at that point in time. 

 

So, the author didn't require a review, much less a positive one for this book. 

 

So, let's get the issue I had out of the way first.    While the book was all about outrageous humor, I was bothered by the racial aspect of this, most notably the use of Asian characters and cultural ideas that were skewed so badly I couldn't help but laugh at them. (And then felt a little guilty about it, to be honest.)   It was a little harder in retrospect, after I had finished the book: the skewering of the white people gets resolved, and there's far less of a connection with the non-white characters. 

 

Which, to be honest, is pretty common in books.   The white characters get more time, get more fleshed out, and often times get redeemed in way that other characters don't.   Just because I've come to expect this in a lot of books, it doesn't make it any less disheartening. 

 

It is, in fact, especially disheartening in a book that is as genuinely funny and well written as the book is.   Canzano paces this well, has a lot of really good characters who feel real, and whom I like.   Magno girl holds onto her own morals despite a lot of pressure to be someone she isn't and to do things she doesn't want to do, usually for money. 

 

Ron can be a little pushy, and I didn't particularly like that about him, but overall, he was a good guy, and I liked him, too.   (Which was good since this was told from his point of view.)

 

The children Magno girl tutored all seemed to have their heads on straight despite their pretty awful childhoods, and the only regret is that I'd like to have seen more of them. 

 

A quick, easy read that is funny, and had all the action I've come to expect from a superhero novel.   Although I do have to warn that this is not kid-friendly: sex, swears, and drugs do abound.  

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review 2015-08-31 04:54
This was FUN!
Magno Girl - Joe Canzano

Synopsis:

(Goodreads)

 

When a Manhattan pizza maker is found dead in his own dough, Magno Girl enlists the aid of her biker ninja boyfriend to help solve the crime – and quickly discovers there’s more to the pie than meets the eye, including a sinister plot that spans the globe.

Magno Girl leaps into action. After all, she can fly, she can fight, and she can use her fearsome superpower, the “Gaze of the Guilt,” to bring a hardened criminal to his knees. But the road ahead is hard. The city’s other superheroes despise her, and the cops don’t want her around, and her own mom won’t stop spitting out advice about marrying a “respectable guy” and trading in her crime-fighting career for a baby carriage—but is she attracted to “respectable guys”? And is she interested in emotional commitment? And will finding real love be her biggest challenge of all?

Welcome to the world of Magno Girl, a wild and absurd place filled with humor, action, and romance.

NOTE: This book contains some profanity and adult situations.  

 

My thoughts:

This was awesome. It reminds me of a comic book without the graphics. It is funny, full of corny action scenes, comic book like humor, and sweet innocent love. This is not the type of book you take seriously, it is meant to be fun and fantastic. There is no great knowledge to be gained, but there is a lighthearted, fun story containing some of the most unique characters I have ever come across.

 

Magno Girl and Ron team up again in this story. Ron is just plain silly at times in this one tryin to pull off the "I am so manly routine," it is hilarious to read about some of his thoughts. He likes what he likes and he likes Magno Girl, a lot. In this story Magno opens up more than she did in the first story and her character really unfolds. Both characters are very fun and the way they interact and compliment each is great.

 

The action scenes remind me of scenes from old batman shows. I laughed out loud during a scene where Magno encounters her kryptonite, tobacco smoke. A midget tries to defeat her by smoking a cigar. Her and Ron work together and put the tiny midget in his place before he can cause a lot of damage.

 

This author is amazing at getting your attention and keeping it. The story is action filled and stays at a steady pace though out the entire book. I will definitely be reading anything this author writes.

 

I recommend this to anyone looking for a book to read to have a fun time. If you like superheroes or comics, you will most likely enjoy this book. This is meant for an adult audience.

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review 2015-08-23 05:03
Magno Girl and the Beast of Brooklyn
Magno Girl and the Beast of Brooklyn - Joe Canzano

Magno Girl, a girl superhero on the tail of a couple of robbers who broke into Fu Chong's Chinese restaurant to steal only a the big bags of rice from the storeroom. At the scene of the crime, she meets

 

This story is told to us by Ron. Ron is working temporarily as a bouncer at The Crush Club nearby. He is training to be a ninja, and rides a Harley. Ron witnesses a crime. A couple of guys broke into Fu Chong's Chinese restaurant and stole only a bag of rice. Magno Girl, a girl super hero, shows up on scene to help out in any way she can. Ron likes her. He likes her A LOT.

 

Magno girl, her real name is Magnolia, she owns a martial arts studio. She quit riding motorcycles when she learned to fly.

 

Magno and Ron set out together to try and solve the crime. Through out the book, Ron is crushing on Magno so hard. I love the way she handles his advances. This story reminds me of a comic book without pictures. I imagine Ron and Magno running around all over the pages and acting out the story as they tell it to me. I love this!

 

I love both Ron, and Magno. With almost every sentence, the author tells us more about them.

 

READ THIS! Go sign up for the author's newsletter. After signing up, you receive an email with a free copy of this book attached.

 

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review 2015-08-09 05:19
Review: Magno Girl and the Beast of Brooklyn
Magno Girl and the Beast of Brooklyn - Joe Canzano

Magno Girl and the Beast of Brooklyn is a fun short story about a superhero named Magno (short for Magnolia) Girl and a bouncer named Ron. When thieves steal large bags of rice from a Chinese restaurant, Ron was close enough to see the events but annoyed with the cops enough to give them some wrong information. His attraction for Magno is enough that he decides to help her find the real criminals, and the story takes off from there.

While some parts of this story are hilariously absurd -- a super-villain named Bank Roll who was evicted for not paying his rent?! -- everything is just over the top enough to make it a fast-paced and amusing introduction to Mango Girl. Fighting, flying, and a superpower that affects the hero, along with a nagging mother, this story kept me laughing all the way through. After reading this, I'm excited to see what the author has in store for us in the full novel he's recently released, about Magno and Ron's continuing adventures.

 

NOTE: I received a free copy of this book after signing up for the author's mailing list.

 

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Source: www.amazon.com/review/R1139DF0FPSLA7
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