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4.5
Not My Problem is a fun, fastpaced story about a girl who doesn't want to face her own problems, so she goes around fixing others'.
While doing so she gets particularly close to the girl whom she used to despise...
I loved this book!
The characters felt very reel, unique, and pretty loveable despite their evident flaws.
Ciara Smyth knows how to create an extremely enjoyable story with great characters.
Not My Problem is a fun, fastpaced story about a girl who doesn't want to face her own problems, so she goes around fixing others'.
While doing so she gets particularly close to the girl whom she used to despise...
I loved this book!
The characters felt very reel, unique, and pretty loveable despite their evident flaws.
Ciara Smyth knows how to create an extremely enjoyable story with great characters.
I have never felt so happy reading a book. Ever.
It was cute. Adorable.
Everything just made my heart melt and glow and feel like I was celebrated for the first time ever.
I never wanted it to end.
It was cute. Adorable.
Everything just made my heart melt and glow and feel like I was celebrated for the first time ever.
I never wanted it to end.
2.5? Rounding it up because I'm nice.
This book will probably be a great fun Christmas queer romcom for many.
It's got the cutesy clichés and winter vibes, and you read it quite quickly.
The main issue for me was that this is a whole new level of insta-love and year long infatuation that I just don't get and don't enjoy reading about.
Both parties spent a few hours together last Christmas, absolutely fell in love, then never spoke for the next 364 days presuming the other wasn't interested, and they still hung on to their "love"??
There's no way you fall in love in six hours. And there's especially no way you're in love with someone you spent ten hours with one year ago...
Saying over and over again things like "I'm not like this, I'm not the kind of person who falls in love in six hours" when that's EXACTLY who you are just makes it even more annoying.
Another thing that bugged me was how our MC Ellie is demisexual, but is strongly attracted (sexually) to Jac after... Three hours? Maybe even less...
Being on the ace spectrum myself I felt a little played, like the demi rep here was just used to insist on how incredible it was that they had this great connexion despite so few hours AND the demisexuality.. despite knowing little about each other...
A few rounds of "the honesty game" doesn't reveal so much about a person.
Anyways, with a few adjustments, I'd definitely read about a love trapezoid around winter season.
I just wouldn't read this one.
This book will probably be a great fun Christmas queer romcom for many.
It's got the cutesy clichés and winter vibes, and you read it quite quickly.
The main issue for me was that this is a whole new level of insta-love and year long infatuation that I just don't get and don't enjoy reading about.
Both parties spent a few hours together last Christmas, absolutely fell in love, then never spoke for the next 364 days presuming the other wasn't interested, and they still hung on to their "love"??
There's no way you fall in love in six hours. And there's especially no way you're in love with someone you spent ten hours with one year ago...
Saying over and over again things like "I'm not like this, I'm not the kind of person who falls in love in six hours" when that's EXACTLY who you are just makes it even more annoying.
Another thing that bugged me was how our MC Ellie is demisexual, but is strongly attracted (sexually) to Jac after... Three hours? Maybe even less...
Being on the ace spectrum myself I felt a little played, like the demi rep here was just used to insist on how incredible it was that they had this great connexion despite so few hours AND the demisexuality.. despite knowing little about each other...
A few rounds of "the honesty game" doesn't reveal so much about a person.
Anyways, with a few adjustments, I'd definitely read about a love trapezoid around winter season.
I just wouldn't read this one.
3.5 / 5
An asexual story told in kind of chronological but not always, and with missing info, made this graphic memoir appreciated yet a little disappointing...
Obviously an asexual memoir is always going to hit hard and make me happy to be seen and emotional to read. It mostly was with How To Be Ace.
I do have to say, however, that I thought some things could have been developed a little more (like how did she find herself in a relationship with a woman) and more info about how asexuality can be very different depending on the person (although this is a memoir and therefore this one person's story and feelings, I would have liked more insistance that this isn't the *only* way one feels when they're asexual). I also felt that the different elements of the book were put in an odd order.
An asexual story told in kind of chronological but not always, and with missing info, made this graphic memoir appreciated yet a little disappointing...
Obviously an asexual memoir is always going to hit hard and make me happy to be seen and emotional to read. It mostly was with How To Be Ace.
I do have to say, however, that I thought some things could have been developed a little more (like how did she find herself in a relationship with a woman) and more info about how asexuality can be very different depending on the person (although this is a memoir and therefore this one person's story and feelings, I would have liked more insistance that this isn't the *only* way one feels when they're asexual). I also felt that the different elements of the book were put in an odd order.
I absolutely loved this! One of my favourite middle grade novels, for sure.
We follow Eliot, who has just moved to a new town after her Babung, her grandmother, passed away. Eliot has been struggling with grief and wants to contact her Babung's ghost. But it's upon other ghosts that she stumbled upon in the creepy house she's now gardening at. With the help of Hazel, the girl staying at the strange house, she has to help the ghosts get their memories back if they want to pass to the other side serenely.
This story is about a girl trying to process grief and accept to move on in a new town.
It's about the ghosts she helps and their stories.
It's about family and friendship and crushes on girls.
It was beautiful.
The vibes were perfect for me: sweet well developed characters, a strange house with a magical key, magical objects and wonderful lost souls.
We follow Eliot, who has just moved to a new town after her Babung, her grandmother, passed away. Eliot has been struggling with grief and wants to contact her Babung's ghost. But it's upon other ghosts that she stumbled upon in the creepy house she's now gardening at. With the help of Hazel, the girl staying at the strange house, she has to help the ghosts get their memories back if they want to pass to the other side serenely.
This story is about a girl trying to process grief and accept to move on in a new town.
It's about the ghosts she helps and their stories.
It's about family and friendship and crushes on girls.
It was beautiful.
The vibes were perfect for me: sweet well developed characters, a strange house with a magical key, magical objects and wonderful lost souls.
Look, I'm interested in this comic. The characters' stories are intriguing and I'd like to know what's going on. I must admit our two main guys are loveable in their own twisted way.
Here's my main problem, which I got sick of and almost made me give up on the story (but it's only three volumes so I guess it won't take too long to get to the end so I'm not giving up yet):
MEN. Men, men, men and men everywhere. The rare women we see in this comic are either used for men's sexual desires, or they're used to give birth, which, in this story, is a desire for the men who want kids to experiment on.
So basically, we're told that women can't survive a post apocalyptic world and are only useful because they tend to have vaginas.
Yepee.
Here's my main problem, which I got sick of and almost made me give up on the story (but it's only three volumes so I guess it won't take too long to get to the end so I'm not giving up yet):
MEN. Men, men, men and men everywhere. The rare women we see in this comic are either used for men's sexual desires, or they're used to give birth, which, in this story, is a desire for the men who want kids to experiment on.
So basically, we're told that women can't survive a post apocalyptic world and are only useful because they tend to have vaginas.
Yepee.
Les pages de fin qui expliquent ce qu'il s'est passé aux personnages après l'histoire m'ont touchée.
Globalement c'est trois BD ont été plutôt instructives. Elles accomplissent donc le but qu'elles avaient pour moi.
Globalement c'est trois BD ont été plutôt instructives. Elles accomplissent donc le but qu'elles avaient pour moi.
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3.5 /5
J'ai pris ce livre parce qu'on m'a dit que les premiers chapitres étaient écrits de façon à ne pas dévoiler le genre du personnage principal... et ce côté était bien réalisé !
Dans l'ensemble, j'ai été plutôt surprise par le niveau de divertissement que m'a procuré ce livre.
Dans ma bulle se lit rapidement et même si certaines paroles peuvent faire lever les yeux au ciel (on peut en pardonner certains vu la date de sortie), le reste est réaliste et même parfois très touchant.
Je n'avais pas prévu de continuer avec le tome 2 mais bien sûr le livre se termine très soudainement et j'ai maintenant envie de savoir comment le aventures de Théo se terminent...
Il y a encore de la place pour une belle évolution, et pour entrer plus en profondeur dans certains sujets très intéressants qui méritent d'être développés.
J'ai pris ce livre parce qu'on m'a dit que les premiers chapitres étaient écrits de façon à ne pas dévoiler le genre du personnage principal... et ce côté était bien réalisé !
Dans l'ensemble, j'ai été plutôt surprise par le niveau de divertissement que m'a procuré ce livre.
Dans ma bulle se lit rapidement et même si certaines paroles peuvent faire lever les yeux au ciel (on peut en pardonner certains vu la date de sortie), le reste est réaliste et même parfois très touchant.
Je n'avais pas prévu de continuer avec le tome 2 mais bien sûr le livre se termine très soudainement et j'ai maintenant envie de savoir comment le aventures de Théo se terminent...
Il y a encore de la place pour une belle évolution, et pour entrer plus en profondeur dans certains sujets très intéressants qui méritent d'être développés.
C'était très intéressant de lire un roman graphique qui dévoile une partie des choses que doivent affronter les parents d'un enfant sourd.
Honnêtement, j'aurais apprécié voir le point de vue de d'autres personnes et pas seulement celui du père. Le père est aussi l'auteur, ce qui explique sûrement sa mise en avant en tant que perso principal. Mais il et véritablement le seul personnage qui récite ses malheurs et ses peurs alors que le reste de sa famille pourrait aussi avoir beaucoup à dire... mais on n'a pas leur vue sur le sujet.
Il mentionne rapidement que sa femme, Nadège, a eu énormément de mal avec son moral, notamment au début (et après il n'en parle plus). Pourquoi ne pas avoir mis en avant ses troubles à elle ? Ils sont pour moi tout aussi (pour ne pas dire plus) intéressants que ceux du père.
J'imagine que ce serait aussi trop en demander d'avoir au moins une fois le ressenti du frère jumeau de Tristan, Charles ? Ou... alors... ceux de Tristan lui-même ?
Bon à part ça, je vous avoue que j'ai versé quelques petites larmes parce que je suis une vraie madeleine et que c'était tout de même une BD qui réveille notre attention sur un sujet qui est souvent mis de côté comme "pas une priorité"... au grand désavantage de toutes ces personnes en situation de handicap.
Honnêtement, j'aurais apprécié voir le point de vue de d'autres personnes et pas seulement celui du père. Le père est aussi l'auteur, ce qui explique sûrement sa mise en avant en tant que perso principal. Mais il et véritablement le seul personnage qui récite ses malheurs et ses peurs alors que le reste de sa famille pourrait aussi avoir beaucoup à dire... mais on n'a pas leur vue sur le sujet.
Il mentionne rapidement que sa femme, Nadège, a eu énormément de mal avec son moral, notamment au début (et après il n'en parle plus). Pourquoi ne pas avoir mis en avant ses troubles à elle ? Ils sont pour moi tout aussi (pour ne pas dire plus) intéressants que ceux du père.
J'imagine que ce serait aussi trop en demander d'avoir au moins une fois le ressenti du frère jumeau de Tristan, Charles ? Ou... alors... ceux de Tristan lui-même ?
Bon à part ça, je vous avoue que j'ai versé quelques petites larmes parce que je suis une vraie madeleine et que c'était tout de même une BD qui réveille notre attention sur un sujet qui est souvent mis de côté comme "pas une priorité"... au grand désavantage de toutes ces personnes en situation de handicap.