content warnings: homophobic slurs, suicide, depression, student-teacher relationship, slut shaming
representation: fat sapphic asian-canadian main character, sapphic side character, gay side character, asian-canadian side characters

I don't know what I expected from this graphic novel. I didn't really know what it was about except that I was pretty sure it was queer, witchy and sad. Can confirm, it is all three of those things. In theory, this is the perfect graphic novel for me, but I didn't really enjoy the execution of it. Here are my thoughts in bullet point format because I don't really have much to say:

• The student-teacher relationship aspect immediately put me off, so there's that
• I wasn't a massive fan of the art style a lot of the time
• The story was okay, but the long passages of text really didn't work for me in graphic novel-format
• Even if the main character herself was only kind of generic and bland, all the characters around her were insufferable. All her female classmates are bitchy, a trope I am tired of seeing and I rolled my eyes so hard when the slut shaming started
• A lot of this felt really pretentious with all the philosophical passages and inner monologues

This graphic novels biggest fault though is that I wasn't interested until literally the last ten pages. A good way for me to describe it is pointless. This felt like a very pointless narrative full of teen angst in which the main character didn't grow and her romantic relationship was gross.

At least it was short and easy to read ¯\_(ツ)_/¯