Ohh, I strongly second this rec!! I just got & read this book a little while ago, and it was so good. The characters are realistically flawed high schoolers, which sometimes gets painful (as an Adult who does not miss high school), but they're also realistically funny and likable.
The art is FANTASTIC. I definitely found myself stopping to stare and admire the characters' hair pretty often. The color choice is interesting while keeping it simple.. it's B&W with pink, and I really think the pink shakes it up a lot!! Overall it looks super good, but not boring, and still easy to follow.
As a YA LGBT book, it was definitely refreshing. I loved the line you mentioned ("LGBTQIA activists fought for centuries for me to have the right to fuck up like this").. it's nice getting to read queer girls have bad experiences with same-gender dating, and still be queer. Relatedly, I think this might be the first book I've read that had a "center friendship in your life, romance isn't everything" message without it being a cop-out from showing queer characters/relationships. But the protagonist's lesbianism, and the presence of supporting cast, is established strongly enough that no judgement of a particular relationship feels threatening. So the book can take a different angle from the usual LGBT-centric YA story and still work really well.
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Date: 2019-07-14 03:09 am (UTC)The art is FANTASTIC. I definitely found myself stopping to stare and admire the characters' hair pretty often. The color choice is interesting while keeping it simple.. it's B&W with pink, and I really think the pink shakes it up a lot!! Overall it looks super good, but not boring, and still easy to follow.
As a YA LGBT book, it was definitely refreshing. I loved the line you mentioned ("LGBTQIA activists fought for centuries for me to have the right to fuck up like this").. it's nice getting to read queer girls have bad experiences with same-gender dating, and still be queer. Relatedly, I think this might be the first book I've read that had a "center friendship in your life, romance isn't everything" message without it being a cop-out from showing queer characters/relationships. But the protagonist's lesbianism, and the presence of supporting cast, is established strongly enough that no judgement of a particular relationship feels threatening. So the book can take a different angle from the usual LGBT-centric YA story and still work really well.
I really agree with this review!! :-)