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octavia_cade 's review for:
Maggie the Mechanic: A Love and Rockets Book
by Jaime Hernández
slow-paced
I have to be honest, I found it quite hard to get into this. Unusually for me, that's because of the science fiction elements. Normally sci-fi is one of my favourite things, but it never quite merged into the rest of the stories, for me... it was like there was a collection of general fiction comics, set around a group of teenagers, and every so often Maggie would travel to another place with her mechanics job, and there'd be a dinosaur, or a rocket ship, and all I could think was "can we please just go back to the other stuff?" I wasn't entirely riveted by all the everyday conflicts, but I preferred them to the rest of it, and a lot of that's down to the central relationship. Maggie and Hopey's friendship (and sometimes romance) is relatable, they're both likeable characters, and when they're both on page at the same time I'm more just more interested than when Maggie's off doing her own thing.