Fashion blogger murder mystery... Or is it? I picked up this series because the art is cute and because I've enjoyed Bryan Lee O'Malley's writing on Scott Pilgrim and Seconds. Snotgirl has an interesting premise, but it also unfortunately boasts too many annoying moments for a short monthly comic only two issues in. Lottie is horrible, but not in a way that interests me.

Bottom line: I feel like it's hard to spoof something without some love for it, and the over-the-top vapidity of Lottie and her friends seems disdainful. I follow a lot of fashion bloggers. They aren't airheads who can't feed themselves.

I’m so excited for Call Down the Hawk that I can’t stand it, so I finally read this story and became incredibly emotional about the meaning of dreams and how Ronan’s fears mirror mine as a writer, and maybe I should do NaNoWriMo this year—

It’s rare that a writer can take such an unflinchingly hard look at the post-Trump political climate and make the resulting book something that is comforting, honest, and empowering. I cried and I laughed my ass off and I realized that actually most people don’t want to overturn Roe v. Wade, living my whole life in a red state has just been lying to me. I’ve been a Lindy West fan since she was taste-testing disgusting candy corn Oreos for Jezebel and I was a bored secretary. She has (we have??) only gotten better, and I’ll read everything she puts out.

3.5. Not what I expected, and it took me much longer to get into the rhythm of this story than I expected. But this is Maggie Stiefvater through and through, cocky and weird and dashed through with moments of raw beauty. I’m interested to see where she takes this series.