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saidtheraina 's review for:
We Can Fix It: A Time Travel Memoir
by Jess Fink
Silly, fun, escapist, horny. Fairly predictable time-travel moral. But breezily entertaining, for sure. Yay normalization of the ladies libido.
While you hear Fink's name tossed with the word "erotica," don't expect the illustrations to be particularly sexy. This is relatively self-deprecating work, with a nice dose of awkward.
A professional review I wrote after a database of "children's literature" sent me this (hence all the THIS-IS-NOT-FOR-KIDS-ESE):
What is the first thing you would do if you had a time machine? Stop yourself from doing dumb things? Make out with yourself? Revisit pleasurable moments? Jess goes immediately for the sexy parts of her past, both bad memories and good. It’s an unusual twist on the memoir genre. The fictionalized Fink interacts with her former selves freely, even transporting multiple versions of herself to various points in her timeline. The content, while not graphically explicit, is overt in its sexuality – the author is acclaimed for this kind of work and known for contributions to comic anthologies such as Erotic Comics and Smut Peddler. As such this work is best suited to libraries serving all ages or adults only. A typical page contains between four and six relatively free-floating panels containing Fink’s accessible grayscale drawings. The Fink character runs into many of the downsides of time travel into one’s own past – memories not living up to your recollection, the inability to influence a more positive outcome, and more. This is a diverting read, and a unique example of memoir storytelling, but best suited to libraries serving the public.
While you hear Fink's name tossed with the word "erotica," don't expect the illustrations to be particularly sexy. This is relatively self-deprecating work, with a nice dose of awkward.
A professional review I wrote after a database of "children's literature" sent me this (hence all the THIS-IS-NOT-FOR-KIDS-ESE):
What is the first thing you would do if you had a time machine? Stop yourself from doing dumb things? Make out with yourself? Revisit pleasurable moments? Jess goes immediately for the sexy parts of her past, both bad memories and good. It’s an unusual twist on the memoir genre. The fictionalized Fink interacts with her former selves freely, even transporting multiple versions of herself to various points in her timeline. The content, while not graphically explicit, is overt in its sexuality – the author is acclaimed for this kind of work and known for contributions to comic anthologies such as Erotic Comics and Smut Peddler. As such this work is best suited to libraries serving all ages or adults only. A typical page contains between four and six relatively free-floating panels containing Fink’s accessible grayscale drawings. The Fink character runs into many of the downsides of time travel into one’s own past – memories not living up to your recollection, the inability to influence a more positive outcome, and more. This is a diverting read, and a unique example of memoir storytelling, but best suited to libraries serving the public.