This issue really brought it back to what I love most about Saga, stunning character portraits, internal conflict over how to react to a damaged world, the most beautiful artwork.

This was a very emotional read for me. I have a lot of thoughts, but I don't really want to get into them. Plus it's a long book so they'd probably all be big spoilers.

I won a raffle at DragonCon and picked this book out of a stack and got it signed by the author and started reading it shortly thereafter and I'm so glad I did. This book is a beautiful, bizarre work of art and I have all the feelings about it and I'm so inspired and my heart is full.

This isn't a light read but it was hard to put down, I fell right in love with Amanda and enjoyed the experience, even when I didn't, of hurting alongside her and talking joy in her triumphs. The author's note is also real good.

Cries forever. This book didn't actually bring me to tears but it was emotional as f. A fast read, told all in emails and chats and letters and such, it kept me on the edge of my seat and covered a lot of ground. Like woah.

I'm not historically very into memoirs but lately I've been drawn to them. I found this book both hard and easy to read. The traumatic abuse of Blow's young life was heartbreaking, yet his writing seemed to easily hold my interest, even if I can't quite pinpoint why. Most powerful to me were his series of revelations that helped him begin to heal from his past in the final chapter. I think it's so important to have works like these that detail often buried hurts that young boys suffer. Additionally Blow's discussion of his sexuality and his often fraught understanding of that part of himself is too rarely explored. This short memoir gives insight into so many facets of a life very different from my own, and for that I am grateful to have read it.

A sad and sweet read I didn't want to put down. It was slow in a good way, and surprised me several times going different directions that I expected.

I'm always surprised when I read memoirs and they're so compulsively readable and engaging. I like that writing about one's own life gives the license to write a story without the coherent plot a novel requires. Though Boylan's story of her life from childhood through transition and into life as a woman definitely has an arc. One thing I disliked was the tendency to end chapters on odd notes, with the seeming impact of some profound metaphor meant to be read out of the events which transpired. For the most part though I appreciated the way Boylan's stream of consciousness navigated her story.

At first I was kind of bored while intrigued with this book but it totally hit it's stride and I just stayed up till one am to finish it so, yes. This is another Nebula nominee, and when I saw it on the list I was pleased to discover I'd already received a free copy of from a convention I attended earlier this year. This is a very character driven story, and all the characters were great - from the sharp, intelligent protagonist, to the diverse cast of Arcadia Project, even the menacing Unseelie warlock antagonist was an exciting badass. I don't know much about Borderline Personality Disorder, so I can't say if any of the depictions were accurate, but I was impressed by how big of a part of the protagonist's story her mental health was, and how she consistently narrated about how it impacted her life. This is the best kind of start to a series, where the story is completely wrapped up and there aren't any huge nagging questions, but I so loved the characters that I'm excited there will be more books returning to their story.

This book was pure joy to read, and I struggled to put it down. I'm so here for cutesy gay love stories, and so glad I read this one. It made my heart happy.