{"id":14158,"date":"2018-03-26T17:55:09","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T22:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/?p=14158"},"modified":"2021-10-30T19:01:15","modified_gmt":"2021-10-31T00:01:15","slug":"review-of-janes-in-love-by-cecil-castellucci-jim-rugg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/review-of-janes-in-love-by-cecil-castellucci-jim-rugg\/","title":{"rendered":"Review of Janes in Love, by Cecil Castellucci & Jim Rugg"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"I bought a copy of Janes in Love<\/a>\"\", by Cecil Castellucci<\/a> and Jim Rugg<\/a>. Technically, it was for my daughter, but whatever.<\/p>\n

Description from Goodreads:<\/strong>
\nThe art attacks continue in this sequel to the acclaimed graphic novel THE PLAIN JANES. The coolest clique of misfits ever plays Cupid and becomes entangled in affairs of the heart. P.L.A.I.N. – People Loving Art In Neighborhoods – goes global when the art gang procures a spot in the Metro City Museum of Modern Art Contest. And the Janes will discover that in art and love, the normal rules don’t always apply.<\/span> <\/em><\/p>\n

Review:<\/strong>
\nI admit that when I picked this up I didn’t realize it is a sequel. And, reading it, I did feel the lack of having read book one. But it is followable. I thought it was nice the way the girls (and their tag along gay friend) support each other and stick to their guns to do their art (as in Do Your Thing). There’s a notably diverse cast and platonic male\/female friendships (even in a book about Valentines Day). But I also thought it rushed (even for a graphic novel plot) and a little scattered. Plus, the villain is ridiculously depthless.\u00a0 All in all, not bad though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I bought a copy of Janes in Love, by Cecil Castellucci and Jim Rugg. Technically, it was for my daughter, but whatever. Description from Goodreads: The art attacks continue in this sequel to the acclaimed graphic novel THE PLAIN JANES. The coolest clique of misfits ever plays Cupid and becomes entangled in affairs of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19623,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[231,1035,287,1036,2177,154,357],"class_list":["post-14158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-booksbook-review","tag-book-review","tag-cecil-castellucci","tag-graphic-novel","tag-jim-rugg","tag-minx","tag-ya","tag-young-adult"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14160,"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14158\/revisions\/14160"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}