Reviews with content warning for Toxic friendship - In Limbo

Beautiful art, based on a true story, I think that I still have some questions about what happened but because it’s based off of the authors life I think that’s the point!

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challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

Lushly illustrated, a pensive coming of age book that touches on belonging, mental health, friendship, family and art. Read this if you are ready to dive into a memoir that will demand empathy and holding space for swirling emotions.

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novella42's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional hopeful sad fast-paced

5.0

Powerful. It's always so heartbreaking to me that I can read a graphic novel in two hours, that took the author/illustrator a FIFTH of their life to create.

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kell_xavi's review against another edition

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reflective sad medium-paced

3.0

It was interesting thinking about the author’s experiences alongside my own depression, loneliness, and difficulty with friendships and dark emotions in middle and high school; however, some of the scenes near the end of this book felt blunted to me, and the story lost its life and confused it’s narrative. I loved the art style, frequently pausing just to look, and I like that picture takes the place of text in many places, unfolding and moving through image alone. I was mostly disappointed that it didn’t feel enough for me, it didn’t always become real.

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potatodel's review against another edition

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emotional slow-paced

4.0

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saucy_bookdragon's review

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A dark, introspective memoir that tackles racism-specifically microaggressions-suicide, abuse, mental health, and complicated friendships. The art style is beautiful with cartoonish people against realistic detailed backgrounds. The story cuts right to the emotion to help understand what the author went through.

I also know for a fact a professor I had for a writing class is putting this straight into the syllabus.

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_jane4's review

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dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

Thank you, First Second Books and Net Galley for an advanced for copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
This beautiful memoir follows Deborah/ Jung-Jin on her path of struggling to adapt in new places as a person of colour, to find and express herself, miscommunication and her coping with it.
This book belongs to my most anticipating ones which are releasing this year and it exceeded my expectations. I love how the author portrayed grief, mental illness and other heavy topics. The side characters had their own role and complexity. The art was stunning, and I could not help but catch myself many times just admiring the panels. I still cannot believe this is a debut book and that makes me even more excited for new upcoming releases by them!
Especially because this graphic novel deals with topics that are hard to swallow, I do recommend checking the trigger warnings.

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