too emotionally unwell to write a review. (Was it seeing me and a friend I’ve fallen terribly in love with in Mags and Nessa? Was it seeing the offerings Mags made to the monster and the state she was in, when I didn’t know the trigger warnings and have been exceptionally depressed? Both? The world may never know.) For a YA graphic novel, it relied more heavily on visual storytelling and it definitely made the emotions feel more personal. I especially loved the author’s use of multimedia and color. 

Mags and Nessa’s romance was very sweet. It was wrecking me to see them take so long to leave behind the toxic relationships they would caution the other against, though. certified teenagers moment.

Not much else to say except for that I would need to give this a reread in order to analyze the narrative’s inclusion of generational trauma, and how color in the panels is used as an indicator of Mags’s development. (On that last note! Holy shit, those last 20 pages. Gorgeous.) I thought by the length this would take me forever to finish, but I blew through it in two sessions.