A review by ricoocri
The Encounter by Michael Grant, K.A. Applegate

5.0

Holy moley! This was great. Just as good as the novel, but with amazing art! Very fitting that Tobias' first pov graphic novel would include new lines from him cementing him as the trans icon he is. The ending was very beautiful. If you aren't in the know about these books, this one specifically is about Tobias' identity crisis. See when you morph into an animal if you stay in morph for more than 2 hours you become that animal permanently. Tobias is a hawk. But he's also a human, and he's trying to resist the hawk's urges to do things the human wouldn't, such as hunt mice and eat them live. The art in these sections is fractured into a lot of pieces to mirror how fractured his psyche is, the effect of it is *chef's kiss*.