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4.43 AVERAGE

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

Original, emotivo y con una gran evolución del personaje principal. Me ha gustado mucho que a pesar de estar centrado en una fiesta como San Valentín escape del amor romántico más tradicional (al menos en parte). La historia engancha desde el primer momento gracias a sus personajes que son más complejos de lo que puede parecer y a los que se les da espacio para desarrollarse (incluso a los secundarios!). Me gustó mucho poder ver la incorporación de la cultura coreana y el apartado gráfico también me encantó. Probablemente, el cómic que más me ha gustado de este autor hasta ahora.
emotional inspiring mysterious fast-paced
emotional funny lighthearted fast-paced
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
hopeful inspiring lighthearted fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous emotional funny hopeful reflective sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

This wowed me! I've been hearing great things for a while, and it didn't disappoint. This is the perfect graphic novel for me: deep and emotionally resonant story, lovely character-focused art, and a page count long enough to feel novelistic. It's warm and complicated enough not to be predictable, even centered somewhat around romance. I enjoyed the extensive cast of characters that were given space to be so much (quirky, frustrating, complicated, sweet, kind, alive) without a moralizing pressure to be fixed or solved by the end. It's another excellent story centered on teens but by no means lacking relevance to adults in terms of the personal growth the characters experience. And my god, by the time
the two dragons kissed each other in the final performance, I died. PERFECT culmination of humor (in the audience witnessing the note being passed through the dragon costume mouths) and emotional catharsis (the two characters reuniting).
I loved this and will recommend it!
emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
reflective slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
emotional reflective sad fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

4.5 ⭐️

i really enjoyed this one. the illustrations are amazing and the storyline itself is interesting!
dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

What can I say? I'm never disappointed in a Gene Luen Yang book and this was no exception. It was fantastic! It's been awhile since I flew thru a book but I really flew thru this one. A good mix of slice-of-life and a little bit of supernatural mixed in.