A review by jemmania
Something New: Tales from a Makeshift Bride by Lucy Knisley

lighthearted medium-paced

3.0

 I was semi-charmed by this. The art is beautiful, the structure is fun. I know that the story of how these two finally get together is supposed to enchant me with its romance, but I felt very negatively about it. The child issue was never actually resolved.

It seems like he spent a year looking for someone better while keeping Lucy hanging on by a thread. When he couldn't find anyone better to be with, he decided to settle for Lucy and settle for life as a father. It felt highly manipulative and scummy. Every time that baby screams and wakes him up in the night, or he reads some scare piece about how the world is ending because of selfish breeders he's going to feel pangs of resentment towards his family and towards Lucy. Every time Lucy senses that resentment, she is going to feel guilty that she was selfish enough to want to reproduce in the first place. That's a recipe for divorce.