Book #44: The Girl From Everywhere, by Heidi Heilig

This was a time travel story that mixed physics with INKHEART and didn't explain anything (which, honestly, is usually the best way to write time travel). I liked that the primary setting was Hawaii and the primary TIME setting was an interesting/uncomfortable part of Hawaiian history.

I did not like that there was a dearth of female characters (though, I will say, the crew member who was "haunted" by her wife's spirit so effectively that said wife was kind of a tertiary character was cool. If it's culturally accurate, it would be even cooler). Basically, I spent the entire novel wishing that the romantic interest was a girl-character instead of a boy-character because then AT LEAST there'd be a girl-girl friendship, if not a girl-girl romance.

(There was, btw, literally no reason why the character was male. You can't even claim "historical accuracy", because the character was taken from a fictional locale, via the time travel/magic dealio.)

I JUST WANT GIRLS IN STORIES, DAMMIT.

Anyway, it was the sort of book you read on a beach and like a lot.

Book #45: Silk Vol 1

This wasn't quite as delightful as volume 0, but the story got a lot of ground covered, and I appreciate that literally all of the important characters are female (Spiderwoman, Mockingbird, Black Cat, the two women Cindy works with, her therapist, her scientist mum in flashbacks...it's great).

I cannot wait for the next Ms. Marvel. I'm reading her turn in the Avengers, but unfortunately I am REALLY not feeling the Avengers right now, even if both she and Lady Thor are in it.