This volume is the last in its series and sadly it's fairly mediocre. The plot isn't amazing and only a few of the introduced side characters manage to be interesting but I did enjoy the bittersweet ending.

Pieces of the dialog were really cringeworthy, which I guess I should have expected given the writer but I definitely could have done without the racist and lgbtphobic words and themes used. I'm not quite sure why stories set in the past are so often written to shallowly highlight the amount of bigotry some privileged people pretend doesn't still exist, and the trope certainly didn't add any depth to these issues.

Unfortunately one gross theme included wasn't even related to the past. While the previous volume seemed to respect Xavin slightly more as a gender-fluid character, these issues showed repeatedly that Karolina only wants to see them as a woman while the other Runaways still think they're abnormal. I fully understand that the general public wasn't well educated about transgender issues during the time in which the comics were written, but if these attitudes aren't criticized people are just going to go on believing they're acceptable.