octavia_cade's review
fast-paced
3.0
It's a damn good thing that the opening pages of this comic collection have the names and relationships for all these people, because the cast is enormous and I kept having to flick back and forth to see who was linked to who, either as family or romantic interest. In fairness, it's partly my own fault for not starting with the beginning volume of this series - when I saw it at the library, I mistakenly thought that this was the first part of the "Palomar" section of Love and Rockets, but it isn't. It still works as a standalone, I think, but I might have had a better sense of the characters if I'd read everything in its proper order. Oh well, this is due back tomorrow, so I'll pick up the first volume then.
I vacillated between two and three stars, to be honest. The characters are... I don't want to say they're hard to relate to, exactly, but they're all so melodramatic that they're a little bit exhausting. The more I read, though, the more I got sucked in. This is soap opera on a gigantic scale, and trying to take it seriously does a reader no favours. It's best just to lie back and let the general insanity wash over you.
I vacillated between two and three stars, to be honest. The characters are... I don't want to say they're hard to relate to, exactly, but they're all so melodramatic that they're a little bit exhausting. The more I read, though, the more I got sucked in. This is soap opera on a gigantic scale, and trying to take it seriously does a reader no favours. It's best just to lie back and let the general insanity wash over you.
shea_proulx's review
dark
emotional
funny
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Fatphobia, Drug use, Death, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Lesbophobia, Violence, Blood, Toxic friendship, Sexual assault, and Murder
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