A review by mjfmjfmjf
Comics Will Break Your Heart by Faith Erin Hicks

4.0

A kind of unlikely choice for a teen romance. I definitely didn't like it nearly as much as the adventure stories told in the author's graphic novels. But I appreciated the idea of a story told around superhero comic books, though not about them. This was a story trying to be about a time and a place kind of. It didn't really tell the story of the place - if it hadn't said it was Nova Scotia where cruise ships could visit, it could have been any small town. I don't know that it sold the idea of Canada though it made a number of references. The characters themselves weren't all that deep. The hippy family was a little bit obvious as was the movie making dad. Still it managed to be a lot less cringy for a high school romance than it could have been. 3.5 of 5.