This isn't objectively terrible, but as an adaptation of one of my favorite books in one of my favorite formats it was a huge disappointment. I'm aware that the reading experience is highly subjective, but to me this volume missed the point and missed the mark in several ways. (For what it's worth: I have reread the novel countless times, most recently this past January aka last month, so I'm very familiar with and attached to the minutiae of the original.)

- While the art is adequately visually appealing, the characters and settings all look really generic, and absolutely nothing like how I pictured them.
- There are more characters portrayed as POC, but Abel is totally whitewashed. Yikes.
- With the way the narration and dialogue have been revised and rearranged, the mental health rep is all but nonexistent. This is particularly egregious because it's a large part of why the original novel continues to resonate with me.
- The whole SnowBaz/fanfic aspect felt poorly incorporated overall; I found the "Meet Simon and Baz!" profiles particularly cringeworthy.
- Also, many of my favorite lines and scenes weren't included. Some of Rowell's jokes admittedly haven't aged well, so I don't disagree with their omission from the manga, but that doesn't account for all of these.
- Or certain lines were given to different characters, presumably for pacing and layout reasons, but this has a significant cumulative impact on characterization and tone.
- A lot of Cath's inner dialogue/narration is lifted verbatim from the third-person narration in the novel, which really doesn't work for me: lots of infodumping and telling (particularly of emotions) rather than showing.
- Some of the changes have little to no bearing on the plot (such as Cath's unreliable-narrator Baz story now being a draft of her final writing project, and some heavy foreshadowing about her possible one-sided infatuation with Nick) so I'm baffled by their inclusion. There's also inaccuracies, such as labeling Nick's opening to their anti-love story as being third person when it's clearly second person POV.
- The ending point felt chosen for Drama and suspense rather than its narrative function, though I guess the silver lining is that it confirmed I have no interest in continuing this adaptation series.