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A review by merlin_reads
Comics Will Break Your Heart by Faith Erin Hicks
3.5
So this book was cutesy. Borrowing from the Romeo & Juliet trope but throwing in comic books and comic con, this book had me written all over it. And while I found myself enjoying it as I read it, I didn't fall in love the way that I wanted to.
The book follows Miriam and Weldon - two kids from opposite sides. Weldon is your typical bored rich kid who gets sent to the small town in Canada that Miriam lives because he just can't get his shit together and his father doesn't want to deal with him. Miriam is the smart mouthed, sassy girl who works at the comic book store. The two meet and insta connection, until they find out about their families past legal trouble involving rights to a comic book.
I really love the Romeo & Juliet trope but I felt like the author really only scraped the surface of this families feud. Yes, it was brought up every time they were together but the extent of it was "you should stay away from her". And then at the end when I thought we would get some sort of confrontation between Weldon, Miriam and Weldon's father, nope, smoothed away in a paragraph and end of book. So a little underwhelming.
As for the love story, it was all right. The characters spent more time wallowing in their own self-pity then actually connecting so it was hard to really root for them. I just wanted them to give more.
So overall, it was cutesy but not as nerdtastic as I would have liked.
The book follows Miriam and Weldon - two kids from opposite sides. Weldon is your typical bored rich kid who gets sent to the small town in Canada that Miriam lives because he just can't get his shit together and his father doesn't want to deal with him. Miriam is the smart mouthed, sassy girl who works at the comic book store. The two meet and insta connection, until they find out about their families past legal trouble involving rights to a comic book.
I really love the Romeo & Juliet trope but I felt like the author really only scraped the surface of this families feud. Yes, it was brought up every time they were together but the extent of it was "you should stay away from her". And then at the end when I thought we would get some sort of confrontation between Weldon, Miriam and Weldon's father, nope, smoothed away in a paragraph and end of book. So a little underwhelming.
As for the love story, it was all right. The characters spent more time wallowing in their own self-pity then actually connecting so it was hard to really root for them. I just wanted them to give more.
So overall, it was cutesy but not as nerdtastic as I would have liked.