A review by ash_hernick
Sex Fantasy by Sophia Foster-Dimino

2.0

When I found out "Sex Fantasy" is a book collecting a bunch of zines, everything made a lot more sense. The first couple of chapters seem to have no real theme other than interesting, aesthetically pleasing art (which was nice to look at, but didn't hold much substance on its own). Around the third or fourth chapter the art organized into coherent short stories, but not all of them clicked with me - they all explore different relationships between people, including new love and pitfalls in romances and sexual curiosity. But even when the stories were coherent, I didn't really feel like I knew enough about the characters to get attached. Again, this makes more sense looking at the book as a collection of zines, but it still felt weird.

Overall, this is a lovely book (the cover art is beautiful and it's well-bound and presented), but the art doesn't hold much narrative substance. It feels like something that you're supposed to look at and admire for its beauty, not something you're actually supposed to read.