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A review by zinelib
Comics Will Break Your Heart by Faith Erin Hicks
4.0
3.75 rounded up
Miriam Kendrick lives in the tiny Nova Scotia town of Sandford with her parents, who are the world's happiest couple, and her good-natured brother, Nate. It's the end of her junior year, and she's afraid to admit to herself that though she's got it pretty good, she wants more, and she wants out. She's ever-fueled by a longtime family woe--her grandfather ignorantly ceding his stake in a successful comics franchise. He fought for it until the end, but then his daughter, Stella, surrendered for a settlement and the freedom to get on with her life. Miriam has not surrendered or settled, so when she meets Weldon Warrick, the grandson of the man who screwed over her granddad, she is upset to find that she is attracted to him.
There are side stories about friendships and Weldon's story, that of a spoiled rich kid stealing cars to get his dad's attention, but somehow he reforms when he's exiled from Hollywood to Sandford (except that one measly car theft that is sort of his and Mir's meet cute). As I'm writing all this, I'm realizing the elements of the novel are annoying, but it's still a decent read, and if you're a comics nerd (which I'm not), all the more so.
Miriam Kendrick lives in the tiny Nova Scotia town of Sandford with her parents, who are the world's happiest couple, and her good-natured brother, Nate. It's the end of her junior year, and she's afraid to admit to herself that though she's got it pretty good, she wants more, and she wants out. She's ever-fueled by a longtime family woe--her grandfather ignorantly ceding his stake in a successful comics franchise. He fought for it until the end, but then his daughter, Stella, surrendered for a settlement and the freedom to get on with her life. Miriam has not surrendered or settled, so when she meets Weldon Warrick, the grandson of the man who screwed over her granddad, she is upset to find that she is attracted to him.
There are side stories about friendships and Weldon's story, that of a spoiled rich kid stealing cars to get his dad's attention, but somehow he reforms when he's exiled from Hollywood to Sandford (except that one measly car theft that is sort of his and Mir's meet cute). As I'm writing all this, I'm realizing the elements of the novel are annoying, but it's still a decent read, and if you're a comics nerd (which I'm not), all the more so.