*Special thanks to NetGallery and Algonquin Young Readers for the eARC of this book*

TW: Attempted suicide, depression,

The art was incredible. I loved the choice of changing colours depending on what what going on in the story. The entirety of my critique is on the story alone, the art masterfully handles each turn the story takes.

This was a great graphic novel that could have really hit off the ending and struck an amazing home run, instead it just kind of...ended. The main driving plot-point wasn't quite resolved in a way I felt did justice to the topic it was covering. Jade is processing her friend's attempted suicide, and unable to see or speak with her. The whole book, Jade is expressing her anger at Phoebe. These are reactions that are human and real, but never eventually learned were wrong or called out. Jade even spouts some quite ignorant thoughts on why a person would make that choice, and again, it's not called out.
Phoebe is, instead of having a voice, reduced to a voiceless plot device.

On a personal note: As someone who studied art, I related to a lot of the things the main character went through in regards to the stresses of art production. So often I wanted to flip the book like a table when the teachers kept pestering Jade for her "reasons" behind her art. "She just did what she liked!" I wanted to scream. This was me very much projecting my own feelings from the trauma of my own art classes, ;)