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A review by labunnywtf
Juliet Takes a Breath: The Graphic Novel by Gabby Rivera
4.0
Received via Netgalley in exchange for a fair and unbiased review.
I had heard amazing things about Juliet Takes a Breath, and to see it had been made into a graphic novel? I was helpless to resist.
Juliet is a Bronx born Latina who has big fat queer feminist dreams. Sadly, her only role model is an incredibly white airy fairy feminist author who is far too much for me to handle, and nearly drove me away from the book before I understood what the author was doing.
Juliet goes to Portland to become an intern to Airy Fairy White Lady, aka the Vagina Lady, and truly finds herself, and her people, and what it means to be a queer POC in a world that uses them as trophies to be collected.
Not only is the story fantastic, the ART. Dear god, the art in this book is glorious. Rich and bright, emotions and feelings are conveyed so much easier in graphic novel form, and this book not only sings, it screams.
So good. So, so good.
I had heard amazing things about Juliet Takes a Breath, and to see it had been made into a graphic novel? I was helpless to resist.
Juliet is a Bronx born Latina who has big fat queer feminist dreams. Sadly, her only role model is an incredibly white airy fairy feminist author who is far too much for me to handle, and nearly drove me away from the book before I understood what the author was doing.
Juliet goes to Portland to become an intern to Airy Fairy White Lady, aka the Vagina Lady, and truly finds herself, and her people, and what it means to be a queer POC in a world that uses them as trophies to be collected.
Not only is the story fantastic, the ART. Dear god, the art in this book is glorious. Rich and bright, emotions and feelings are conveyed so much easier in graphic novel form, and this book not only sings, it screams.
So good. So, so good.