Author: Norm Harper
Illustrator: Louie Joyce
Genre: Graphic Novel, YA
Publisher: Lion Forge
Date: March 19, 2019
Length: 160 pages
Review copy from NetGalley
Ever-superstitious Alex Mills will do anything to avoid a jinx. Picking up pennies, knocking on wood, collecting rabbit's feet . . . you name it. That is until she steps on a crack and it actually does break her mother's back. To save her mom, Alex must follow Hubbub Caskside, a trusty leprechaun, on a journey through the end of a rainbow to Haphaven, the world where all of Earth's superstitions draw their power.
All she needs is a rabbit's foot to save her mom, but she soon discovers the lucky article won't be so easy to retrieve. Not only is the rabbit's foot guarded by Haphaven's most formidable creature, the Jinx, there's also a forest full of trees that knock back if you don't knock on wood, people named Penny who do not like to be picked up, and a particularly vindictive black cat who will not be crossed.
As Alex finds herself desperately searching for a way to save her mom, she learns of a mysterious connection between her family's fate and the rulers of Haphaven. With her mother's life on the line and her own fate at stake, Alex must find the strength within herself to unlock the mystery and take back control of the superstitions that have controlled her life, even if it means crossing the Black Cat once and for all.
Description from NetGalley
Haphaven's cover caught my eye and I immediately clicked on it. This confident girl striding through the world ready for trouble and being shadowed by a monster was someone I wanted to read about. Turns out that she wasn't confident at all in the beginning, and I had totally missed that she was walking through a four leaf clover farm and towering over leprechauns. The plot couldn't really keep up with the pace of the story, but I laughed out loud a few times and my 9 year old was really into it.
