I usually love cutesy, fluffy MG graphic novels like this one appears to be, so I had high hopes for a cute little best-friend duo finding their way through junior high relationships, but The Love Report felt like a huge case of "good intentions, bad execution".

The art is cute and Lola's a pretty lovable main character, but every other character is either awful or totally flat, and the dialogue is incredibly off-putting at times. For such a young audience, there's a lot of slut-shaming (including Grace, the protagonist's best friend, frequently calling a character a "bimbo" as an insult) and there is some general treatment of other kids that should have been addressed better.

The book tries to do too much, juggling commentary on divorce, preteen relationships, sexual assault, parental abuse, absent parents, and more, all in such a short span of pages that very little of it is actually fleshed out. I don't recommend this graphic novel and certainly won't be continuing the series.

Thank you to the publisher for the review copy! All thoughts are honest and my own.