Reviews and Comments

Another that caught my eye in the comic shop to look up

Just saw this on the comic store sale shelf, gonna look it up

I didn't notice the page count, so this ended sooner than Iwas expecting! It was an interesting narrative arc.

There have already been a lot of VERY good faces

I read the first 200 pages of this tonight and am only stopping because it's 1am and there was a barely-acceptable place to do so. It is good!! I teared up a couple times already, there are MORE baby lesbians with uhhhhh we'll say complicated family situations and people are doing so many THINGS and they all have REASONS, some of the reasons are bad and some are good and some are complicated but they all make SENSE and that is SCARY and I love these books.

Wow. Wow. I just finished this in a bakery and cried about it nonetheless. Beautiful and difficult and powerful. I echo both blurbs on the back, especially Maia's: I'm so glad she had healed to the point that writing this book was possible.

Phew, this book is heavy and good.

OH MY GOD I just let out the most unholy guffaw. Like this whole book is great but if was written for the express purpose of this one line I wouldn't even be mad. Masterful, totally didn't see it coming, hit me like a cylinder of nitrous to the face. 😂

Okay shit has very hit the fan and damn I am very much hooked, I don't know what I expected from this book but this is so much more!

Really enjoying this so far! Great characters, good writing, cute flirting, lots of good unanswered questions that are starting to get all twisty.

This book was exhausting

I feel bad for still complaining but it's a page later and ugh, I'm so tired of just jumping right into the middle of the next scene with nothing but a section break as transition! Are they dreaming now? What's the setting? It has to have been at least several hours (sorry, "cycles") in-world, can I at least get a sentence to reset my mood from "glum and worried about my friend" before dumping me into "running for my life from a scary monster"?

So many times in this book I've been so confused about where we are and how much time has passed, and been hit by abrupt mood shifts.

I don't know if this is some sort of hip new narrative style or what, but I don't like it.

We're halfway through the book, why are we still putting conversions from your space clock to earth time in parentheses? I know it's YA, but your clock is already suspiciously close to earth hours and days anyway, we don't need to be reminded that a metacycle is the thinly-veiled day-analogue every time, I promise!

So far I am not terribly impressed. I'll probably finish it because book club, but I've hadvs hard time getting into this one.

Probably not one I'd pick up myself, but it's Hugo book club time, so here we go!