A review by breakfastgrey
Nubia: Real One by L.L. McKinney

4.0

This book simultaneously exceeded and fell short of my expectations. This DC Young Adult line has been faltering more of late, so I wasn't going into this expecting great things. But then the beginning knocked my socks off. The artwork was top notch (shoutout to the colorist, as well!) and the characters absolutely sang. The plot was both moving and subtle. Unfortunately, the second half gets a lot more blunt as if worried that readers can't handle the earlier nuance and begins to repeat itself to make sure you got it. Add in a super awkward cameo (why on Earth would she have arrived in costume and in the most regressive of her costumes, at that?) and I closed the book somehow feeling disappointed that a book I had no expectations for was anything less than 5 stars.