A review by dembury
Boundless by Jillian Tamaki

2.0

This was a surprising book for me, mostly because I've adored Tamaki's other work (especially Super Mutant Magic Academy and This One Summer, but Skim, too!) and yet somehow this just wasn't for me. These little vignette-style short stories are a cool mix of speculative fiction, explorations of women, and just some heaps of weirdness that I'd usually love but I think fall flat. The stories kind of feel like doodles, something Tamaki sketched down on a napkin absently and then later came back to and worked a bit more, trying to get some shape out of it. There's an air of unfinished-ness to the work as a whole, with 2 exceptions. The stories 1. Jenny and Halflife were the stars of Boundless and I'd recommend those, but the rest? I don't know, obviously other people liked them. There just wasn't much I enjoyed in here.