Wicked fun and filled with references to both literature theory and science fiction classics, Squirrel Girl: Universe is well worth reading for comics fans and first timers alike. When Squirrel Girl and her onomatopoeia-lly named friends (Chipmunk Hunk, Koi Boy, Brain Drain, etc) find themselves millions of lightyears away from home, their struggle for survival becomes a hilarious adventure filled with space whales, poet-nappers, and reality warping beings. Asides from editor Hulk and random moments of Squirrel Girl classic zanyness many cause bursts of laughter, but the novel also has a lot of heart and depth.

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3.5 stars rounded up- Squirrel Girl: Universe stays true to innate goodness that comes alive in comic books. When super villain Brain Drain sends himself, Squirrel Girl, and her friends accidentally into deep space, Squirrel Girl starts on a Douglas Adams-sequel jaunt through space filled with new alien friends and a few enemies while trying to bring peace to the galaxies and swelling of the brain with the amount of science facts your smacked upside the head with. This story is a wild ride through space with an air of randomness and intelligent fun with the best hearted superhero in the Marvel Universe. My voluntary, unbiased review is based upon a review copy from NetGalley.

Squirrel Girl: Universe is as delightfully crazy and charming as the leading lady herself. Thanks to the Mad Thinker something very odd is happening and the city of New York is in peril, and it’s up to Squirrel Girl and her allies (Tippy-Toe, Chipmunk Hunk, Koi Boi and others) to stop him. Unfortunately in the course of thwarting his dastardly plan they end up finding themselves transported across the universe and must find a way home. Step one to getting home? Hitch a ride on space whale…and from there things just get even more crazy. Tristan Palmgren does an absolutely fantastic job of capturing the heart and humor of Marvel’s most unique and upbeat superhero. I absolutely love the story and the irreverent way Tristan tells it, with an epic story and frequent humorous ‘footnotes’. I only hope that when Disney/Marvel eventually bring Squirrel Girl into the MCU they do half as good a job. Thanks so much to Aconyte Books and NetGalley for the opportunity to read and review an eARC of Squirrel Girl: Universe.

This book was okay. I wasn't thrilled with all of the over-sciency explanations of black holes and other things. I do enjoy Squirrel Girl as a character and enjoyed meeting new to me characters. This book was given to me for an honest review.

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Over the years there have been many attempts to bring Marvel Comics characters to life in print form. Some of them have been rousing successes (The Time’s Arrow Trilogy), and some have been not so great. Squirrel Girl Universe, by Tristan Palmgren falls somewhere in the middle of this scale. If you are familiar with both Squirrel Girl, and Marvel print novels, this will be pretty enjoyable. If you don’t read many Superhero print novels, this might feel lacking. If this is your first introduction to Squirrel Girl, I hope you’ll get a kick out of the story and want to dive in to the comic lore for more. For me, I don’t regret the time spent reading this novel, but at the same time, it doesn’t have a slot on me Books to Re-Read shelf.

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This book book was given to me by Aconytebooks and NetGallery in exchange for honest review. All opinions are my own.

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Tristan has done an incredible job here. Squirrel Girl's voice is so true to her comic appearances that have made her a fan favorite. I loved her supporting cast so very much too. Every character in this book is so well crafted and utilized. Tristan crafted an amazingly fun, funny, charming, and exciting tale for veteran Unbeatable Squirrel Girl fans and for readers who may even be new to Doreen and her friends.

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Unless you are already familiar with this character I would not recommend this book to introduce you to her. I feel like the story would have worked so much better and had more impact in the form of a graphic novel.

I consider myself a big marvel fan but I found myself losing interest in this story very quickly.


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Fans of Marvel, look out for Squirrel Girl. Her story is one of the lesser known but worth the read. Art and story is amazing, expect nothing less from these graphic artists and writers. Hopefully we'll see SG on Disney+ soon..

Thank you NetGalley and the publisher for giving me an early copy in exchange for my honest review.

Unfortunately I had to DNF this, personally I feel like this would’ve worked better as a graphic novel. I don’t see the point in writing about superhero’s if it’s not in a comic form because a lot of things get lost in translation. The fighting scenes would just be so much more appealing if I had some images to go along with it instead of just words. Also if you don’t know much about squirrel girl this one might not be the best to start with since it jumps in right away. I love squirrel girl so this was just such a disappointment.


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Marvel Entertainment, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company, is one of the world’s most prominent character-based entertainment companies, built on a proven library of more than 8,000 characters featured in a variety of media for over eighty years. Marvel utilizes its character franchises in entertainment, licensing, publishing, games, and digital media.

For more information visit marvel.com. © 2022 MARVEL

I really wanted to love the book but sadly couldn’t get into it. Struggled a lot to finally finish it.

I am living for these Marvel YA books they’re so much fun I can’t wait to see which characters we get next.
Squirrel Girl is one of my favorite hero’s so getting an entire novel about her was everything.

I love squirrel girl, and was so excited when I saw this book, so it was a huge disappointment when it didn't quite deliver. There's a lot of good parts, the tone and basics of the plot are spot-on (it also takes place canonically after the ending of the unbeatable Squirrel Girl run), the characters are instantly recognizable, and they even included the footnotes like the comics had. But, the plot was a bit of a mess and vague, they spend a lot of time wandering through space, so there's not a lot of the action I was expecting from something based on superheroes. I really wish this had been a graphic novel instead, it would've been much more success in that format, in my opinion.

I couldn't get thru this. I tried. I did. I feel like the book required too much previous knowledge and jumped immediately into the conflict. So much into the conflict that it felt rushed, chaotic and smothering. Trying to wrap your head around so many characters at once with no backstory, introduction or buildup caused an ADHD claustrophobia mix that made the book frustrating. After a week of finding no joy in the reading, I quit. 😩

(ARC provided through NetGalley in exchange for a review)

A super cute book that absolutely nails the voice and tone of the Ryan North run on the Squirrel Girl comics, which is one of my favorite comic runs ever. This takes place after that, so there will be spoilers for that series if you haven't finished it. I'm also super glad that I listened to the recent Squirrel Girl podcast because it really helped me to internally narrate the characters, especially Brain Drain. Great book.

HOWEVER, one super nerdy nitpick that I have remark on, and one that I hope gets ironed out by publication. At one point in the book, the ancanti (space whales) are described as being the parasitized spaceships of the Brood, which lines up with how both aliens are in the comics. Later on in the book, the ancanti are described as being the living spaceships of the Skrulls, which is at odds with both the comics and the earlier mention in the book. Without the first mentioning of the Brood, it wouldn't have been worth remarking on (multiverse and everything), but with that listing, it just stuck in my throat like a rogue popcorn kernal.

Still really good, though!

My thanks to both NetGalley and the publisher Aconyte Books for an advanced copy of this super heroine adventure novel.

"Squirrel Girl, Squirrel Girl does whatever a Squirrel Girl does. Inspires their friend of any size, catches thieves just like..nuts." The song needs work but, it does show my love and enjoyment of the continuing adventures of Doreen Green known to the world as Squirrel Girl. Being a comic reader of a certain age and gender I should not like Squirrel Girl as much as I do, but her adventures always remind me of what it was like reading comics that my grandmother brought me at the newstand (yes I was a fan before direct markets became a thing), full of adventure, fun and lessons on how to be a better person. And fun. Tristan Palmgren in Squirrel Girl: Universe, part of Aconyte Books Marvel Heroines line, captures this feeling of fun, footnotes, and feats of fortitude and fearlessness and College finals, in this adventure that spans that galaxy and fiction itself.

Doreen is with her roommate and Nancy and her squirrel companion Tippy Toe,when parts of New York seem to go ghostly and being to float away or so it appears, . Soon she is joined by her comrades and friends Chipmunk Hunk and his girlfriend, Koi Boi and the ex- supervillain Brain Drain. After a trip to the masters of the mustache Tony Stark and Doctor Strange proves of no use, Squirrel Girl vows to find and stop what is going on. The investigation leads to Empire State University Doreen's school where the master mind Mad Thinker has a plan to steal parts of New York take it across the galaxy and rule as King, or something. Stopping him is only the start of the adventure which finds all these characters trapped on the other side of the universe maybe, involved in an interstellar war, space whales, poetry currency smuggling, and the laws of fiction breaking around them.

Doreen Green is a great character, and the author has the voice of the characters down. Heck I have not thought of Mad Thinker in years, and found him a character I wouldn't mind seeing more of. The adventure is big and sciencey, maybe sometimes a little too big, but still moves forward well. The cast might be a tad big, but everyone is interesting and brings their own view and spin on situations, so that can be forgiven. There are footnotes, with helpful science and biographical facts, and asides from the Hulk, who freelances as an editor in this adventure. There is plenty of story left for a sequel which might involve a certain trickster god sometime in the future and there is still a question about returning in time for college finals. Overall a fun adventure.

The book that Aconyte are doing are some of the best representations of Marvel characters that I have read in a long time, and that includes the books and especially the movies which give the characters not time to breathe or even live before the next CGI thing appears. I have not read one that I thought was just ok, or didn't like in any series, and I really enjoyed this one. Squirrel Girl is a great character with everything a hero should be, inspirational and someone you want to emulate. From being a friend, being nice, and kicking butt, this was a very good. I've not read anything by Tristan Palmgren, but I can't wait to read more. Another reason why I like these books, I find authors I might never have read, and I love discovering great authors.

I have read a few graphic novels (comics in my younger days) that have either starred or featured Squirrel Girl in them but by no means would I consider myself an expert or even particularly knowledgeable about the charming character, what I can say is that in my mind I see Anna Kendrick as squirrel girl and this book only made that dream more real except I had not imagined her in space 😳 this is a fun, exciting book that takes the reader to places that marvel OGs (like me) would not necessarily choose to go and for that I thank the author

Thank you to the publisher and Netgalley for this eARC of "Squirrel Girl: Universe" by Tristan Palmgren.

I love Squirrel Girl, she's one of my favourites. However, this didn't show the true nature of Squirrel Girl and it just fell flat. The footnotes were unnecessary and I felt like they didn't contribute anything to the book especially as it was already a first person narrative. It just felt bland and even though I love it when they are in book form, I think this plot line would have done better as a graphic novel.

I received an ARC of this book through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

I really wish this had been a graphic novel instead of a regular novel. Lots of the action gets bogged down by wordy sentences full of footnotes and asides. That works in a comic when your character is able to break the fourth wall in a panel, but in a novel? It just comes off as long winded and bombastic.

I am a fan of the Squirrel Girl comics but I would hesitate to recommend this book. I'm not sure who the audience for this book would be, kids? Older teens? Fans of the Squirrel Girl comics? Marvel fans?

In the end, I found the book mildly entertaining but wishing it would get to the point already.

Squirrel Girl: Universe, the latest in the Marvel Heroines novel series by Aconyte Books, is written by Tristan Palmgren. In advance of the August 2, 2022, release date, the publisher provided me an early galley for an honest review.

I admit that while I know of the character I have never read any comics featuring Squirrel Girl. So, with this book jumping right into action with her and her partners in crime-fighting, I found myself a little caught up in chaos. Of course, they're caught up in chaos too with New York City landmarks being abducted. By the time we get a few chapters in the narrative slows down a bit so I was able to get to know the cast - while they contemplated their predicament with the irritated Mad Thinker.

The combination of space travel and humor gave the book a bit of a Douglas Adams vibe ala The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series. If that was Palmgren's intent, that is a high bar to strive for; I am not sure that the efforts managed to hit that mark for me. I found myself losing interest a number of times throughout the story - mostly because I did not have vested interest in most of the cast or the situation they found themselves in.

I suspect folks who are already Squirrel Girl fans will love this one. For the rest of us, reading a few of the character's comics first might be beneficial before picking this book up.



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For more information visit marvel.com. © 2022 MARVEL