The world is absolutely fascinating and I’d love to go back and see how the beliefs of other cultures mix into the world.

El reads super younger. I would guess her closer to 13.  I suspect that her age has to do with validating her ace-ness.

There were a couple of story threads that didn’t go anywhere that I felt were a distraction but it could be argued that a couple of those were red herrings.

Between this and A Snake Falls To Earth, I am excited to see what Darcie Little Badger releases next.

While it is very nice to see Tomoko recognize some of her own assumptions, is beginning to bother me that she doesn’t correct her husband’s homophobia.

For example when she tells him and a coworker admitted he was gay, the husband calls him a “fairy”, says that he must be effeminate. When she says that he isn’t, her husband says that he probably just doesn’t act that way at work but he probably secretly does, and Tomoko leaves it there with a maybe he is like that in private.</spoilers> She doesn’t tell him he’s prejudiced (or at least never beyond a don’t say that), she usually just diverts the topic. It’s especially tough since she knows that what her husband says has affected her son, and a lot of times he’s saying all sorts of bs around Hiroki. 

Due to this volume’s summary, I was hoping for some sort of confrontation in this one, but maybe in the next one, I guess.

This graphic novel has good qualities - pretty art, characters that could be interesting, a world that could be interesting - but somehow it all totals up into a pretty meh package.

There is an attempt to make the family drama between Astel and the Queen tie back to how Jordan feels forces (wow, how your mom hid some major information from you and endangered everyone totally reminds me about how I’ve begrudged my parents for treating me like a free caregiving service for my siblings).

I can understand why Astel fell for Jordan but don’t know why Jordon would reciprocate beyond Astel being a pretty elf, since Astel’s attitude isn’t endearing in the slightest. Maybe it’s my perpetual inability to see the appeal of a tsundere so much tsun not enough dere).

(Also, a romance where the couple falls in love within a couple days and under 200 pages isn’t a “slow burn”; I object, Kirkus review.)

With great art and delicious looking food, I'm already inclined to love this book. Additionally, the story hit a little close to home since I'm also an English major (and had  a breakdown related to trying to figure out what I was going to do after graduating).

My only complaints is that there is a lot of small text (my graphic novel reading buddy needed both a page magnifier and her reading glasses to read this), and sometimes the order of the panels was confusing (there are a couple moments where with four square panels where it makes sense to read left to right and then  down, but another time where it goes up and down and then right).

A sweat little story inspired by a young girl who participated in the 2017 Women's March.

While certainly quick, this guide felt super simplified and a dash flippant. It might be great for pre-teens and younger teens or people who have never heard about asexuality before, but I don't think there is too much use beyond those categories.

I liked how Angela Chen gave a very expansive definition of Asexuality. I like how the effort she made to be inclusive and how she broke down her ideas. Since there are so many ace identities, I like that she interviewed so many people so the reader can see how variable ace experiences and desires can be.

It makes sense than an unknowable cosmic being wouldn't take Earth being in danger that seriously but since it's important to someone you came to love so much, you think said cosmic being would care a little.

The reader is constantly referenced (“you”) which I didn’t enjoy. Shaw was probably attempting a degree of humor but I wish I could’ve gotten more information instead of the quips. I just prefer my non-fiction a little more dry.