I really wanted to like this book more than I did. This was yet another one that I had to wait awhile to read, since I heard about the book months before it was slated to be published. There were many reasons I was excited to read this. One was that it fit one of my personal book challenges of a book with an astrology or zodiac term in the title (I’m counting ‘moon’ cause it’s my personal challenge). There was also a lot representation in it, including a non-binary romance interest and a main character with a differing ability. However, it ended up falling short of my expectations by a fair margin and was just okay.

The main thing for me is that there was a lot of exposition that we had to accept. There wasn’t a lot of background given on Nova and Tam’s friendship, let alone romantic relationship. They essentially jump into one right at the end of the first chapter when I would have liked to know a bit more about it. I would have also liked to know more about the characters overall. I’m not necessarily against insta-love but I still need a reason or explanation as to why it happened otherwise it is pretty much insta-lust. Also, they never really stated what their ages were although there were multiple references to ‘high school’ so one would think they had graduated but it was never specified. While not a huge deal in the long run, it was one of the small things that ended up kind of bugging me.

Again, I really enjoyed the representation here, but I would have still liked to know more about their history. It was obvious who the villain was going to be, even if the ‘why’ behind it was a bit of a surprise. The brief glimpses into Nova’s family were also nice but they were just that…brief. No explanation on what happened with her parents, why there was a pigeon-headed cousin (I think?) or anything of that nature. I’m not sure if there was a prequel that was released that I missed but I felt like I had walked into a movie halfway through with this book.
It was cute but to me there wasn’t much else going for this story. I finished it in about a day which is the case for most graphic novels, but I wouldn’t re-read it and I’m glad I waited to get this from the library.