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383 reviews

Luisa: Now and Then by Carole Maurel, Mariko Tamaki

challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes

4.25

Numb to This: Memoir of a Mass Shooting by Kindra Neely

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

Ghost Roast by Shawneé Gibbs, Shawnelle Gibbs

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

Ambrosia: Trans Masc & Non Binary Erotic Comics Anthology by Tab A. Kimpton

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced

• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

Cursebreakers by Madeleine Nakamura

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Money Shot, Vol. 1 by Tim Seeley, Sarah Beattie

adventurous funny lighthearted fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

2.75

I keep waffling on what to give this book.  Was it a fun quick read? Yeah.  Was the art beautiful? Absolutely! 

But the story kind of fell flat and there were so many.... Holes (pun intended) in how things work that it didn't really do it for me. Not enough actual smut and not enough actual plot.  At least commit to something. 

Yes, Roya by C. Spike Trotman

adventurous funny hopeful reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.75

A fun and enjoyable short comic

Komi Can't Communicate, Vol. 1 by Tomohito Oda

fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.0

The only reason this gets a 1 star instead of none is because I feel that Komi's inability to communicate is very realistic and does work well as a premise.  However, so many of the other characters are just weirdly characterized and seem incredibly one-dimensional and prop-like.  I am unsure also about how they're handing the gender/identity of one of the characters - perhaps that gets handled better in later volumes but the whole comic just feels so childish and poorly written that I'm not bothering with the rest.  Genuinely shocked to see people recommending this as the first manga for people to read as I think it's a very poor example of this type of storytelling.

Heir to Frost and Storm by Ben Alderson

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.25

Heir to Thorn and Flame by Ben Alderson

adventurous emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

3.0

An interesting read and I'm certainly invested enough to read the next book in the series.  Truthfully, I am more interested in the way magic works in this world and less in the characters, though they do have their charms.  Mostly, I found that they all felt very surface-level, useful for plot purposes but not really fully developed and I'm curious to see if the next book resolves some of those issues.