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    Goth Girl Rising

    By Barry Lyga

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    About this ebook

    Time is a funny thing in the hospital. In the mental ward. You lose track of it easily. After six months in the Maryland Mental Health Unit, Kyra Sellers, a.k.a. Goth Girl, is going home. Unfortunately, she’s about to find out that while she was away, she lost track of more than time.

    Kyra is back in black, feeling good, and ready to make up with the only person who’s ever appreciated her for who she really is.

    But then she sees him. Fanboy. Transcended from everything he was into someone she barely recognizes.
    And the anger and memories come rushing back.

    There’s so much to do to people when you’re angry.
    Kyra’s about to get very busy.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateOct 19, 2009
    ISBN9780547417479
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    Goth Girl Rising
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    Barry Lyga

    Barry Lyga is a recovering comic book geek and the author of many books, including The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl, Goth Girl Rising, Boy Toy, and Hero-Type for HMH, Wolverine: Worst Day Ever for Marvel Books, and Archvillian for Scholastic. He has also written comic books about everything from sword-wielding nuns to alien revolutionaries. He worked as marketing manager at Diamond Comic Distributers for ten years. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.Visit Barry online at www.barrylyga.com.

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    • 5/5
      Kyra comes home from the hospital and is angry that Fanboy never once contacted her when she was in the hospital...so she starts to plot her revenge. While she plots her revenge she also does some soul searching. She changes her look and examines the relationships she has with her friends and their behaviors and even the behavior of some teachers. Interspersed are letters she writes to Neil Gaiman and a lyrical poem that keeps expanding about the last time she saw her mother.

      I loved this. I loved it more than I loved the first book. I love watching Kyra examine her life and look into the lives of the people around her and grow and change and adapt. I totally admit that the revenge thing made me super anxious.

      ***Spoiler***
      I couldn't even imagine what the outcome of those plans would be and honestly I was totally expecting her to do it. I liked seeing her come to the conclusion that it was the wrong thing to do.
      ***Spoiler***

      I was happy with the journey Kyra took and with how Fanboy had changed and developed as well. The only thing is I would have liked to see her relationship with her father change a bit more too. I would have liked to see the conversation with her father about all of those realizations rather then the letters, but I can live without it. It doesn't change how much I enjoyed the rest of the book.
    • 4/5
      I found this book remarkable because the first was semi-autobiographical. But the second takes the POV of a girl. And a seriously messed up girl. An obnoxious, self-centered girl -- that works as a secondary, but as a main character? Like the first, there's a lot of thinking, ruminating, and introverted rants as teens do. I suppose it's part of the character, but it just goes on too long. It fills the book, and the plot elements tend to be diminished. But I liked the plot events that did happen. Although they weren't real exciting, they were true to characters. So I guess this is better as a "true" book than a "good" book. If that makes any sense.
    • 4/5
      I fine follow-up to Fan Boy and Goth Girl, wherein we learn a lot about Goth Girl’s past. Almost more than we really want to know. Being a more in depth character study, it packs a little more punch into the story.
    • 4/5
      I loved this book! The sequel is told through Kara aka Goth Girl. After a six-month stay at a mental hospital, Kara is released to find that the one friend she had has changed. Fanboy’s comic was published. He now is confident and popular. Kara seeks revenge.
    • 5/5
      NOT for the faint of heart....
    • 4/5
      Six months after the end of The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl, Kyra- the goth girl- is getting out of the mental hospital. Sent there because it was wrongly thought she was going to try and kill herself (something she *had* tried before), she is angry at everyone. Not that this is unusual for her- she was pretty much angry at everyone before she was sent away, too. But now her anger is amped up to the nth power, and most of it is directed at Fanboy, who she did not receive a single phone call, visit, text or email from during the entire six months. Fanboy must be destroyed. Her father, who sent her away, must be punished. Where did Kyra’s anger originate? Her mother died of cancer when Kyra was 12, when Kyra started puberty the same day her mother found out how ill she was. Krya’s mothering ended that day, and she never got any assurances about her body. To make things worse, her mother, who never smoked, died of lung cancer. Kyra’s father *did* smoke, so she is totally alienated from him. Thankfully, Kyra does have a couple of friends among the goth set, but even they don’t get what she has gone through. Nobody does. She trusts no one, which makes Fanboy’s betrayal even worse- she had started to trust him. While Kyra is portrayed as an annoying teen with lots of issues, Lyga handles her character very well. He captures a teen girl’s body issues and quest for identity. Her anger is justified- although, at times, misdirected. But Kyra is not stuck; she is working through her problems. Unlike her somewhat flat characterization in Astonishing Adventures, she has a lot of dimension and depth. The best part, to me? Her piercings, blue lipstick, hair dye and black clothing aren’t portrayed as acting out, but as things that truly make her comfortable with herself. While this is another coming of age novel like Astonishing Adventures, I feel it’s more enjoyable by adults that AA is. Things don’t just happen to Kyra; she *makes* things happen. She takes things on. Her methods are unconventional- sometimes illegal- but she gets things done. And she learns.
    • 5/5
      This is even better than the first book and a fantastic book for young adults. Kyra has returned home and is trying to get back in the swing of things after being sent away for trying to kiil herself. She and her father are both struggling over the death of her mother. An honest book about a teenager in pain trying to find her way the best she can. There are a few sexual moments that might make it better suited to older teens...but not that many and they are not terribly graphic. Fanboy just gets cooler and cooler.
    • 5/5
      Anything by Barry Lyga is great! Perfect for young adults.
    • 4/5
      This is the sequel to the "Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl". You wouldn't absolutely have to read the first book to understand whats going on in this one, but reading the first book gives you Fanboy's perspective on things and helps this book make a lot more sense. So, I guess I would recommend reading the first book before this one. This was a pretty darn good book by itself. I had a lot of trouble putting it down, Goth Girl is a very engaging character.After the incident with the bullet in the first book Kyra is sent to a mental ward. This book starts as she is returning back to school from the mental ward. When she returns to life "outside" she is peeved to find out that none of her friends have e-mailed her in the 6 months she was gone. She is especially pissed at Fanboy. When she goes back to school she finds that Fanboy has started publishing his graphic novel "Schemata" in the school newspaper and on top of that people actually like him now. The whole thing makes her even madder and she sets out to plot her revenge against Fanboy.Overall this book was paced much like the first one. This book is all from Goth Girl's view. Goth Girl spends a lot of time thinking and struggling with her rage throughout this book and dealing with her mother's death. The chapters are interrupted by occasional letters to Neil (Neil Gaiman) where she talks out the things that are bugging her. There are a boatload of references to Neil Gaiman's Sandman in here. I am a huge Gaiman fan so I enjoyed those references. There was also a lot of discussion around what different parts of the Sandman novels actually mean; it makes me want to go back and read them all more carefully to see what I missed.I thought that this story wasn't quite as good as "The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl" in a couple of aspects. Goth Girl spends a lot of the beginning of the book complaining about her big breasts and how people notice them too much. Way too much time is spent on this. I started scanning the parts of the book where she just spends too much time on this. I also thought it took way too long for Goth Girl to come to some of the revelations that she came to; it made her come off as a little dim at parts. I know Fanboy is super smart, but I never thought Goth Girl was stupid and there are parts of this book where she acts pretty stupid (although smarter than her girlfriends).Still, overall I really enjoyed the story. This is another one of those young adult books that talks about how young adults deal with anger and with the crappy hand that life deals them. I am sure many people can relate to this book. Kids who have lost a close loved one will relate with a lot of the feelings Kyra (Goth Girl) deals with. The thing I love most about this book is that the writing is witty and snappy. This book makes reading about all the heaviness in Kyra's life kind of fun for the most part. I really do enjoy Lyga's writing style.Will I be reading more Lyga books? Not for a while; just because I prefer fantasy/paranormal books to angst ridden young adult books. I will definitely check out some more of his books when I am in the mood for some more young adult drama.
    • 4/5
      While not as strong as Lyga's other Brookdale novels, GGR was a worthwhile read.
    • 4/5
      By the time GOTH GIRL RISING hits the shelves it will have been three years since THE ASTONISHING ADVENTURES OF FANBOY AND GOTH GIRL was published. For those that haven’t read it, do so now! You will probably enjoy GOTH GIRL RISING even without the backstory from TAAFGG, but not nearly as much as you could if you take the time to read it.Unlike TAAFGG, this story is told from Kyra’s point-of-view. Six-months have passed since the last time we saw her. Because of something that happened at the end of FANBOY, Kyra was sent to stay at the Maryland Mental Health Unit. GOTH GIRL picks up on the day she is released.Kyra is both relieved and nervous to be going home. Dealing with her father is tough and the thought of going back to school turns her stomach upside down. But, she is excited about one thing and that is seeing Fanboy. Here is a what she is thinking when she is walking into the school her first day back and she is looking for Fanboy. “I feel all light and puffy inside, like someone filled me up with a cloud or something. The Spermling doesn’t bother me. Roger doesn’t bother me. I’m going to find Fanboy and then everything is going to be fine. No wait, that’s wrong. Everything is going to be perfect.” (p. 35)What Kyra finds is not what she expects and her world is shaken again. She begins to fill her days with plans of revenge and ways to ruin Fanboy. Thoughts of suicide find their way back into her head and she struggles to make it through each day. So many things are confusing: her feelings toward a long time friend, her relationship with her father, the way she feels about her mother’s death, and her plans for Fanboy.Through letters she writes to her favorite author, Neil Gaiman, Kyra works through her many emotions in an attempt to be satisfied with life. She just can’t decide if it is worth all the trouble.
    • 4/5
      This is the story of a very confused and sick young girl. After the lose of her mother she is quite distraught with the path her life is taking. After having been admitted to a psychiatric hospital she is returning home to start over. Only what she encounters is a life that continued without her, and the plans that Kyra had made to start over are not playing out as she had planned. Kyra is a young girl that is mad at the world for what her life has become, and it takes so difficult and terrifying steps for her to overcome the slump she is living in. I did not relate while reading this book in any shape or form. It terrifies me to think that young people can be lost in their own minds as Kyra was in this particular book. Goth Girl Rising did not begin with a Once Upon a time, and certainly was not concluded with a Happily Ever After but I was comfortable with the outlook of a brighter future in the end. This was not the best book I have read, but surely not a waste of time I would say you need to take a look for yourself.