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Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life
by Bryan Lee O’Malley
content warnings: infidelity
representation: gay main character, chinese main character, side character of colour
God, I love reading surprisingly-good things. I know the Scott Pilgrim series almost entirely because of the movie, and I'd heard that movie!Scott was a garbage allocishet white boy so I wasn't interested to say the least. But I guess I should've listened to my friend who would never shut up about how good the series was because I ended up really enjoying this first volume.
This first volume follows Scott Pilgrim, a twenty-three year old who is 'between jobs' and has just started dating a seventeen year old girl. Soon after, he literally meets a girl in his dreams. He thinks nothing of it until he sees her in real life. From there, he starts to become romantically interested in the mysterious Ramona Flowers.
First of all, you need to know that Scott highkey sucks. He's with Knives (his girlfriend) and Ramona at the same time, he treats his friends like trash, and doesn't seem to want to go anywhere in life. Ordinarily I would hate a character like that, but I'm aware that he gets some pretty sweet character development as the series goes on so it doesn't bother me as much because I know that his shittiness isn't permanent. Bryan Lee O'Malley also just seems to have a knack for writing characters that are kind of awful but still interesting and engaging so you end up kind of caring about them.
The plot in this first volume is almost entirely set up - Scott's relationship dramas, the first evil ex-boyfriend, the beginning exploration into the wacky world, etc. - but it's entertaining set-up so it doesn't feel so much like a prologue. From what I know about the rest of the series, there's also some pretty damn good foreshadowing in this as well as some solid laying the groundwork for future plots.
I was surprised at how much I enjoyed the humour. There were several times when I laughed out loud, something which I don't normally do when reading. O'Malley is also very good at his fourth-wall breaking. He doesn't do it too often and some of it is surprisingly subtle, which makes it even more rewarding and funny.
Sorry for ever doubting you Zac, you were right, this was great. I wasn't expecting to be excited about continuing but now I'm glad that I borrowed the first three volumes from the library.
representation: gay main character, chinese main character, side character of colour
God, I love reading surprisingly-good things. I know the Scott Pilgrim series almost entirely because of the movie, and I'd heard that movie!Scott was a garbage allocishet white boy so I wasn't interested to say the least. But I guess I should've listened to my friend who would never shut up about how good the series was because I ended up really enjoying this first volume.
This first volume follows Scott Pilgrim, a twenty-three year old who is 'between jobs' and has just started dating a seventeen year old girl. Soon after, he literally meets a girl in his dreams. He thinks nothing of it until he sees her in real life. From there, he starts to become romantically interested in the mysterious Ramona Flowers.
First of all, you need to know that Scott highkey sucks. He's with Knives (his girlfriend) and Ramona at the same time, he treats his friends like trash, and doesn't seem to want to go anywhere in life. Ordinarily I would hate a character like that, but I'm aware that he gets some pretty sweet character development as the series goes on so it doesn't bother me as much because I know that his shittiness isn't permanent. Bryan Lee O'Malley also just seems to have a knack for writing characters that are kind of awful but still interesting and engaging so you end up kind of caring about them.
The plot in this first volume is almost entirely set up - Scott's relationship dramas, the first evil ex-boyfriend, the beginning exploration into the wacky world, etc. - but it's entertaining set-up so it doesn't feel so much like a prologue. From what I know about the rest of the series, there's also some pretty damn good foreshadowing in this as well as some solid laying the groundwork for future plots.
I was surprised at how much I enjoyed the humour. There were several times when I laughed out loud, something which I don't normally do when reading. O'Malley is also very good at his fourth-wall breaking. He doesn't do it too often and some of it is surprisingly subtle, which makes it even more rewarding and funny.
Sorry for ever doubting you Zac, you were right, this was great. I wasn't expecting to be excited about continuing but now I'm glad that I borrowed the first three volumes from the library.