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Chaotic Good by Whitney Gardner

by Book Blog

Posted on November 24, 2020

Chaotic Good by Whitney Gardner                                                                                                        

At the age of 11, I bought my first comic book, it was X-men #20, in case anyone is interested, so I related to some of the discomfort felt by the main character, Cameron, as she was met with a stereo-typical “Comic Book Guy” when she moves from a big city.  

The story follows Cameron as she is trying to deal with trolls on her costuming blog and stress from on upcoming, make-or-break portfolio of her costuming work to enter a prestigious college program.  The portfolio requires costumes for brand new characters, as well as one established character with a re-vamped outfit.  Cameron goes to the local comic book store for ideas and gets harassed by an employee who starts complaining about fake geek girls.  Cameron decides to go back to the store dressed in her brother’s clothes to finish her shopping, while there she is asked to join a Dungeons and Dragons group.  She decides to do so, because D&D has a formula for creating characters, which will help her create her character designs for her costuming portfolio.

Will Cameron finish her portfolio?  Will she be found out by her D&D group?  Will the internet trolls ever stop being the worst?  Read this book to find out!

Tags: cute, nerds, sweet, college anxiety