Check, Please! series

I've been meaning to buy Ngozi Ukazu's graphic novel duology "Check, Please!" for a while now. I fiiiiiinnnnnnallllly did that this weekend. And read them, obviously. The first novel is titled "Check, Please! #Hockey." And the second one is titled "Check, Please! Sticks and Scones."

["Helloooo, Internet Land. Bitty here!

Y’all... I might not be ready for this. I may be a former junior figure skating champion, vlogger extraordinaire, and very talented amateur pâtissier, but being a freshman on the Samwell University hockey team is a whole new challenge. It’s nothing like co-ed club hockey back in Georgia! First of all? There’s checking. And then, there is Jack—our very attractive but moody captain."]

Ngozi's graphic novels were apparently very popular as a web comic before she published them in print form. And I mean, I can see why. 

Both were super cute and utterly fantastic. The writing and the art. The characters were unique and all very, very hockey oriented. It was thought provoking and stirring but not in an overly obvious way (there was references to drug use and mild, mild homophobia, but nothing was outright printed on the page that I would necessarily warn against). Bitty was uuuuuttttttttttterly adorable and I just wanted to wrap him up in a blanket and eat his pie together. Jack was a little bit of a jerk, but, he had things going on in his life and...well... You should just really read it. ;)

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