I wanted to take a day to reflect. This was a BIG story with single stories for each chapter and all connecting at the very end. Megan is a drifter. That means she travels from city to city to try and find her place. Find people she can connect to. You start off with a story of her and the current boy she'd dating and how he wants her to do something illegal and score him drugs. Then you flip to a story about a stalker who she begins to somewhat fall for. Then we jump into a time when she was helping a guy broken down on the side of the road and turns into a brawl with a lot of shooting and killing.

We keep jumping in every story. Megan gets older, but we get insight on each year of her life. A story that hits her hard and molds her to someone. To a person she is now at the end. It's amazing how these disconnected individual stories somehow come all together and hit you hard. Things that you don't expect to come back do and sometimes stories seem useless but matter in the long run.

What I liked: The art is amazing! I really enjoyed that part of it. I also loved 5 or 6 of the stories, enjoyed the rest aswell. It's hard to have every story connect to me. Megan is a interesting character. Brian Wood doesn't paint her as a "great" or "wonderful" or "Flawless" character but you can also understand her ways. The mistrust, the loss of love, the hatred she holds. It makes her truly remarkable. I also liked Nick a lot.

What I didn't like: Wish we had another chapter or two on Nick. This wasn't his story but I would have taken another of him. He was interesting. I also wasn't feeling the musician story. That was the only one I didn't really care for.

I really liked Local. I think it's one of the better stories told. I was thinking of going with a 4 but it's closer to a 4.5. The negatives really didn't impact me much at all. So I'ma give it a 5 star because I think it's a gutsy story with a lot of heart and while I think it has a couple of issues it's very very very much worth reading.