A review by wanderlustlover
Poorcraft: Wish You Were Here: The Tightwad's Guide to Travel by Ryan Estrada
1.0
(Double review for Poorcraft: The Funny Book and Poorcraft: Wish You Were Here)
I have loved almost every book I've gotten by kick-starting, and I loved the idea of a comic book serious about being frugal without losing the beauty in your life -- both an original, for everyday living, and one for traveling, but reading this book is like scrolling through pages of fingernails on a chalkboard for me. I don't specifically like the art, or the presentation, or the characters, or how they treat each other. Mleh. I guess they couldn't all be perfect gold. But I'm still glad if these things I already knew (and that weren't very specifically aligned for my life) help someone else.
Edits on the traveling one as I reskim -- I think my problem with these is that the narrator comes across incredibly patronizing, and her only comparison friend is made to look like a hapless, can't do anything right antagonist-victim the whole time.
I have loved almost every book I've gotten by kick-starting, and I loved the idea of a comic book serious about being frugal without losing the beauty in your life -- both an original, for everyday living, and one for traveling, but reading this book is like scrolling through pages of fingernails on a chalkboard for me. I don't specifically like the art, or the presentation, or the characters, or how they treat each other. Mleh. I guess they couldn't all be perfect gold. But I'm still glad if these things I already knew (and that weren't very specifically aligned for my life) help someone else.
Edits on the traveling one as I reskim -- I think my problem with these is that the narrator comes across incredibly patronizing, and her only comparison friend is made to look like a hapless, can't do anything right antagonist-victim the whole time.