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)
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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.

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.

I wanted to love this one. The premise sounded amazing, and there is quite a bit of diversity (main character is Latinx, one of the female main characters has a crush on another girl), but I ended up feeling very disappointed.

For one, I really didn't like the main character. I feel like they wanted to make her that kind of rebel character everyone loves, but they tried too hard and ended up with a pretty selfish and unlikeable character.

I also felt like the plot wasn't executed very well. There was nothing about it that made me want to keep reading, and it felt a bit all-over-the-place.

The only things I liked about this one were Jonesy's dad, who is adorable and makes a lot of dad jokes, and the side character who has a crush on her lab partner, which was adorable. But they're not things that make me want to keep reading this series.

I'm sure there are people who would like this graphic novel, but I'm not one of those people.

Jonesy is the kind of character that I could totally see running a book blog. Or at the very least, a very active niche Tumblr account. She's a huge fan of pop music and anime, and even prints her own fandom zine that she tries to distribute to her peers. She marches to the beat of her own drum and it doesn't always go over well, but Jonesy gives it her all and always makes a statement. But the most noteworthy thing about Jonesy isn't her love of fandom culture or her unique sense of style...it's her magical power. Jonesy can make people fall in love - with people, or with objects.

Just imagine your pushy, matchmaker friend had the ability to compel you to love someone else. That's Jonesy. And as I'm sure you can imagine, it's a surefire recipe for some crazy drama. But underneath the over the top antics is a really creative and fun narrative. From Valentine's Day to Prom, Jonesy tells readers directly all about her most loathed topics. She's also very vocal about her love for ferrets, her dad's donut shop, and the pop-star Stuff. It's all super cute and sweet, and it feels like a very genuine glimpse into the kinds of things that occupy the mind of a teenager.

Another win in my mind is the fantastic representation in JONESY VOL. 1, which features people of colour in all facets of the story and celebrates women of colour in particular. Jonesy herself is Latina, and her oldest friend Vikram and her new pal Susan are also PoC. Add to that the queer-friendly vibes (Susan has a crush on another girl) and this graphic novel is a perfect example of diversity in a fun, cute story. JONESY VOL. 1 also avoids many pitfalls of YA material, as Humphries transforms Susan from adversary and mean girl cliche into one of Jonesy's closest friends. They call themselves The Secret Crush Investigation Squad and it's amazing.

If you've read any other BOOM! Box titles like Lumberjanes, then you're probably familiar with their flavour of storytelling: zany and sometimes absurd stories are the vehicle for some deeper truths about life, adolescence, identity, and popular culture. Sure, Jonesy has the ability to make people fall in love (with mixed success) and uses her powers mostly for her own purposes, but the heart of the story is about her struggle to make friends, fit in at school, and grapple with the reality of her parents' divorce. There's a lot going on underneath the surface of JONESY VOL. 1, and I think those seeking out diverse comfort reads will find great success with this story.

My only real issue with this graphic novel is the repetitive nature of the overall storyline; JONESY VOL. 1 is composed of four single issues, and each one has a "drama of the week" feel to it with Jonesy misusing her powers and then scrambling to put things to rights. I'm sure that this approach to storytelling works really well when readers are following the series with single issues, but when they're all bound together in a volume it can get a bit tiresome. That said, I do like the overarching plot of the series, namely figuring out the extent of Jonesy's powers and the b-plot following her idolization of the pop-star sensation, Stuff. I have some theories on where the story might go, and I'm excited to see how they pan out.

JONESY VOL. 1 is a clever, diverse graphic novel that's full of heart and humour. Fans of comics and newcomers alike will find something to love here!