I love this art style SO much. It is so immensely cute. The main character was very likable for me. I've already recommended it to like 3 of my friends.

RATING: 2 STARS
DNF - 25%
(I received an ARC from the NETGALLEY)
(Review Not on Blog)

The illustrations were too much for my eyes and the storyline for this one did not keep my attention. I am going to pass on this one and the series.

This was something alright. I enjoyed it, it was fun!

Jonesy has seriously adorable drawings, but I found the story odd and felt that it didn't flow very well. Thankfully, the drawings are that adorable and distracted from that somewhat.

I am in loooooooooove with Jonesy!

And she didn't even use her special powers on me. At least, I don't think so...

A fun comic that became too chaotic at points. The plot was messy and was only hold together by the main character's narration.

Curious to see where this is going.

I've been reading a lot of graphic novels lately geared toward all ages. I thought this looked fun and colorful...but it just wasn't my cup of tea. I can totally see one of my girls enjoying it, though.

Laugh-out-loud funny with fantastic artwork and an excellent cast of characters. Definitely need to get my hands on Jonesy vol. 2. And vols. 3, 4, 5...however many are available. Perfect graphic novel for my fellow fangirls.

So neon it almost hurts to look at, this ultra-vivid and cutesy kids' title has a huge-haired girl failing to rebel at school, partly due to her love-related super-powers. I'm sure it's perfectly respectable if it's your bag and you're the right age for it.

My mom won this book from netgalley, and gave it to me to read. Thank you to the author, the publisher and netgalley.
I am 10 years old and found reading level good. I found the interest level perfect.
This is a graphic novel and the story was easy to follow and the pictures were really good.
I really liked that her dad owned an awesome donut shop, and that she had super powers.
There wasn't anything in the book that I didn't like.
I would definitely recommend this book to my friends, and I plan on reading the other books in the series.

I have to say that the cover is what drew me to this. It is so colorful and vibrant and it carries on throughout the entire comic. I thought this was a fun, cute, quick read. Although its a little bit immature for me personally I feel like younger audiences will love it.

Jonesy is joyous. It's an absolute mood-boosting treat. On the one hand you've got a wonderfully silly storyline about a character whose superpower is to make people fall in love with anything (even hats or gopher-based snacks!!!), and on the other you've got an authentic-feeling teen take on school, fandom, friends and family. The reason that such a quirky storyline can resonate emotionally is due to the way the lead character, Jonesy herself, is represented. Visually, she's a little bit alternative but with a literally soft, rounded style. Similarly, despite her goth/emo tendencies, she has a pop side too... harbouring a secret crush on a pop star called Stuff! Like many teens, she's deeply into fandoms- she watches anime and 'ships' the characters, she writes 'zines (I didn't know 'zines were still a thing... I'm glad to hear that they are!) and obsessively follows her favourite celebrities on social media.

Jonesy also depicts accurately the feeling of teenage angst. She talks directly to the reader, drawing us straight into her world and presenting her worst day(s) ever- embarrassing parents, annoying teachers, the feeling that everyone else has a boyfriend/girlfriend and you don't! The stories told in Jonesy are light-hearted, but they have an honesty too them that would attract a teenage audience.

Upon first viewing I felt that the artistic style was overly cutesy. To be fair, it is pretty cutesy... the characters repeatedly have hearts in their eyes!!! However, this style works for a comic aimed at a YA audience. The roundness of shapes and the brightness of the colours adds to the quirkiness and adorable nature of Jonesy's world. It reminds me a little of Steven Universe crossed with Bee and Puppycat mixed up with Scott Pilgrim with a dash of anime (one of Jonesy's passions).

There's been a lot of controversy about diversity in comics recently. With comics like Jonesy and Lumberjanes, Boom! is showing Marvel and DC how it should be done. The teen characters in Jonesy are ethnically diverse (like in many real schools) and are accepting of the LGBT experience (as schools should be)- "Hey do you have a boyfriend? Or a girlfriend? Or..." one boy asks Susan without any judgement or expectation. It's great to see a storyline where diversity is present and at the fore-front but isn't turned into an issue that needs addressing. It's just there.

Jonesy is a really fun comic which speaks to a lot of teen interests and pre-occupations. It would be great for teen readers (12+) and could be used as part of a display of fandom-based books in a library (school or otherwise setting). This could include popular YA choices such as Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell alongside darker texts such as Goldy Modavsky's Kill The Boyband and comics such as Unbeatable Squirrel Girl (especially Volume 2 where we get to read Nancy's Cat Thor fan-fiction!!).

Josephine aka Jonesy is a high school student. She lives with her father, who owns a donut shop. She also has a pet ferret. The story follows Jonesy through major parts of the school year: Valentine’s Day, a talent show, prom. She also has to face the idea of her father starting to date. Though these are fairly ordinary things that most teens face, Jonesy is unique. She has a special power: she can make people do anything she wants. Jonesy discovered this power when she made her two favourite characters on her anime show fall in love. The only problem is that the powers don’t work on Jonesy herself. She isn’t able to make her crush (a pop star named “Stuff”) fall in love with her.

This graphic novels was so entertaining. It was very funny. There were many times that Jonesy spoke directly to the reader, especially at the beginning of the chapters. This breaking of the “fourth wall” set the scene and brought me into the book.

This story also has a diverse cast. Jonesy is latina. Her best friend, Susan, is black and has a crush on a girl. It was refreshing to see these diverse characters in a YA/middle-grade graphic novel.

I definitely recommend this graphic novel and I can’t wait to see the next volume!

(reading this has made me want to go and by a box of donuts and devour it in one sitting)

This is absolutely adorable and I know young me would have loved this. Would have related to Jonesy and her crushes and the way she tries to cool and 'aloof' but not really trying cause she already is.

But I am too old for this.

It's a brilliant origin story: bolshy geek girl Jonesy gets the power to ship people in real life from watching too much anime. Sadly but inevitably, it doesn't work if she tries to use it on herself. This could easily have been the set-up for an interminable and cliche-ridden manga series which I'd never read, but gains interest from being written by Sam Humphries, who deploys the same sick mind which gave us 'Our Love Is Real' (look it up when you're older) to have Jonesy's classmates suddenly compelled to love ferrets, or noxious gopher lollies, as often as any more standard crush scenario. Boyle's art conveys an appropriate sense of hyper-real, too-much-sugar pubescent overexcitement, and the combined effect is somewhere in the region of Scott Pilgrim's nightmare younger sister. Still, I'm not sure about the idea's long-term legs, and at times it reads less like encapsulating adolescence than encapsulating the feel of the comics and 'zines made by adolescents. For which I'm sure there's an audience, and good luck to them - just maybe not so much of a crossover one.

This is certainly a quirky book. Scott Pilgrim meets Astronaut Academy meets Steven Universe. I liked the illustration style better than the plot. The jewel tones, while an unusual choice, are appealing. The weird magic love powers will give this a more limited, though likely devoted, following. Odd but fun.

Fluff! That what this comic book is. Just a big bundle of fun. I love the art style, but the story lacks depth and is just a fun read. It seems like something I'd read to have a change of pace from some of the more serious stories I usually like to indulge in. I also enjoyed the fact that Jonesy's friend... (friendenemie?) Susan has a crush on another girl. Huzzah!

So yeah, fun read.