Okay so I'm going to get a bit personal on here.

A few years back my wife miscarriage with our first child. It was probably one of the biggest challenges in our lives. Both together and dealing with our own loss. I shut myself away from her and just about everyone, and she went into depression. It took a long time, and many other stumbles, before we got back up. But it was one of the hardest points in our lives.

Waves is about two ladies who finally get pregnant and are ready to create the family they've been waiting for. But soon into the story they go through complications. It's not a secret that they lose the child, it's on the description. It's all about the journey of recovery. This book focuses on the trip back from the traumatizing events of both ladies, but mostly the one who had carried the child.

It's the brutal and honest look into it all that made me read this all in one go in twenty minutes. The complications at birth, or even before, ring too true to me. Even some of the things in our recent birth, where we did have our child, came up with huge complications (9 pound baby will do that, my poor little wife =O) but it's the loss and the fight to return to "normal" is the most powerful. I could relate to a lot of it.

With the art I really loved the idea of going from color to all black and white, and as life returned to normal (as normal as you can be) the color returned to certain items and people. It was dealing with depression in a way I haven't seen and I loved it.

The only negative is sometimes the dialogue seems a little off, mostly between the married couple, but it wasn't enough to bother me much. This is a must read, even if can't relate, I believe you can appreciate the honesty coming from this storyteller. A 4.5-5 out of 5.