Guardians of the Galaxy: Collect Them All

I finally got around to reading this, and I wish there were more Guardians of the Galaxy novels by this author. Corinne did such a great job.I know this is based in the comics more than the movies, but I’ve read very little of the comics and had no trouble. I say if you liked the movies, I heartily recommend this book. Good balance of humor, action, and a little bit deeper exploration of the characters, with an interesting plot.I sampled the only other GotG prose novel that I think has been published, by a different author, and his is not nearly as good. His style is different and cheesier.Corinne’s style seemed very empathetic to the characters, and you got to get into everybody’s head a little, which is a real strength of a prose novel over comics or a movie. Really well done. Basically everybody but Peter got at least a little time to have some real authentic characterization, and who cares about Peter?Please read and buy this so they’ll hire Corinne to write more! You won’t regret it.

This is a great story with the characters we all enjoy in GOTG. It's a fresh story that keeps the action going. If your a fan of the comics, movie or books I would recommend this read.Plot summary: The GOTG have been hired by the collector to find someone, while in the meantime helping fix a groot problem, while stopping a terrorist attack. Good times!

I didn't realize how much I would enjoy the Guardians of the Galaxy movies, but I think I like them the best of the Marvel Cinematic Universe groups. I never read any of the comics, but I have read a couple of the Marvel prose novels. I have not been disappointed.

Really fun, zippy YA with the main characters from Guardians of the Galaxy. Lots of Groot! Bonus side queer girl character. :3 Said character also has a lot of symptoms matching PTSD so tw for that.

This book simply feels like a Guardians story. There's a strong vibe of the movies running through every line. In fact the book doubles over backwards to avoid referencing the comics. And that's fine. Because this captures something I really love. Well worth a read.

I'm a big fan of the marvel prose books and the GOTG. This one was a real disappointment. I am a reader who is going to finish a book once I start it (no matter what) and this one felt like a chore through the final 2/3's. Most off the guardians came off as unlikeable and the story is focused around the one character who can only say one phrase… get ready to read "I am groot" a couple hundred times.

If you like the GOTG movies, you'll enjoy this book which focuses on Groot as the primary Guardian character.

Guardians of The Galaxy: Collect Them All By Corrine Duyvis, is a original Marvel YA “prose” novel based on the Marvel comic’s Guardians of The Galaxy.When the Guardians attempt to evacuate a Kree prison planet and end up in a fight for their lives they discover their old pal Groot is mysteriously sick. Someone is planting stolen branches of the monosyllabic hero and selling the Groot saplings across the galaxy! The search to find Groot's missing duplicates forces the Guardians into an alliance with the unscrupulous Collector, but the real problem is more complicated than he wants them to believe. The seller is a kid. And she's got more than a few things in common with Gamora like green skin and a wild temper. Now with an unruly teen in tow, the Guardians attempt to track down the remaining Groots and discover an interplanetary conspiracy. War looms on the horizon. It's a race against the Collector, Groot himself, and the entire Kree Empire.Though it's not my favorite Marvel Prose novels - that honor, of course, still goes to Margaret Stohl's Black Widow books - Duyvis gives us a pretty unique and unexpected novel that proves to be a quick, fun read. It's not perfect, though. Some of the characterization feels a little off to me - Quill/Star-lord comes across as less respectful of women than even his film counterpart, Gamora feels a tad underdeveloped, and Rocket...well, he's a scene-stealer for sure, but Duyvis' insistence on liberally filling his dialogue with made-up sci-fi swear words like "flark" and "d'ast" and "krutacking," in addition to the more standard "freaking," feels pretty out of place, as does his nicknaming of Gamora as "Gam" or, worse, "Gammy." But around these flaws, Duyvis gives us a story just as thought-provoking as the films - when Groot gets cloned and each clone's existence saps a little more of the original's power, is it ethical to collect them and wipe them out, or keep them alive and well-cared-for?There are no easy answers.Keep in mind before going into this book that it's not really related to the movies, despite featuring the same band of five Guardians. It wouldn't take place between the two volumes released thus far, so unlike Stohl's Black Widow books, it's really not explicitly part of the MCU. But if you like Marvel, and you like Guardians, you owe it to yourself to pick this book up and give it a good read.

Awesome, I hope for more