4.5

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for sending me an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review.

This comic was so delightful. I sat down intending to read for a few minutes and ended up reading the whole thing in one sitting. Way day diaries follows four best friends over each of their individual hair wash days and then ends with a chapter about them all going out together.

Each girl had her own color scheme that just perfectly matched her character. I don't know how the author was able to showcase each girl's personality so clearly in only a few pages, but I felt like I genuinely knew each one.

I loved seeing the friendships and it's always great to see a story about Black joy! (But take this with a grain of salt since I'm a white reviewer).

Overall this comic was absolutely fantastic. My one qualm that took this down a half star for me had to do with a scene between Cookie and Davena. Davena is suffering from depression and is telling Cookie about how she's been struggling and had started seeing a therapist. She and her therapist are talking about the possibility of antidepressants. At this point, Cookie tells her not to do it since she looks fine (red flag!), you don't know what it will do to your body and mind (red flag!), and offers her a crystal instead. There's already so much stigma around getting professional help and it's disappointing to see this handled so poorly in the text. This did knock the book down a half star for me, but I would still highly recommend it for comic readers since the overall story and art style were so fabulous.