Hmm... this is a tough one to rate. I think I'll go with 3.5 stars, rounded up to 4 for GR.

The pros: first of all, I heard this graphic novel referred to as gentrification horror, and that sums it up incredibly well. It's horror, it's spooky and it's weird, but it also deals with a lot of commentary regarding gentrification, POC lives being pushed aside and erased for white comfort, etc. There's a ton of good commentary going on here, including the black MC's best friend having a meltdown over how "white people's opinions never seem to matter anymore", etc. (but she's not racist, you know! how dare you?!). Parts of the book are very subtle while others are brutally on-the-nose, and it's all done very well.

The cons, however: first, this art is... well, it's a mixed bag. On one hand, it's visually interesting and I think it's neat, how certain "scenes" are color-coded to different colors to separate them from the scene before. It's an easy way to show time-skips, location jumps, etc., without devoting any of the actual storyline to letting you know. That said, the monochrome aspects made it a little tough for the finer details to come across sometimes, and the drawing style itself, while this is totally subjective, is not one that I personally enjoy.

The other issue I had is that the story just doesn't make any sense at times. I know a lot of people enjoy semi-bizarro horror that doesn't have a lot of rhyme or reason to it, and if that's you, DEFINITELY grab a copy of this one, but that's not me. I wanted to know why these things were happening (more than the iota of backstory we got) and how the entity in the story became so powerful, but I didn't get any of that. I think BTTM FDRS would function much better as a novel or novella than a graphic novel, but that's just me.

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