mhall 's review for:

Seconds by Bryan Lee O’Malley

3.0

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2.75, maybe. I liked the coloring and the artwork and the setting, but the story and the main character's actions were disappointing. Katie is a successful chef in her late twenties, trying to open a second restaurant. While at work in her first restaurant, she encounters her ex and has a pretty bad evening because of it. Then she discovers a tiny notebook and a mushroom, and instructions that tell her to write down her mistake, eat the mushroom, and go to sleep. She does this and when she wakes up her past has been changed.

Spoiler

A lot of my problem with this was Katie's short-sightedness and how I couldn't figure out *why* she chose just this random shitty event to be the mistake she wanted to erase. In a lifetime, don't people have bigger regrets? And I didn't like the ending.