I Actually Reread Something! | Q3 2023 Wrap Up

this book did end up being better than I thought it was going to be and I gave it a 4.25 when I read it and I think it could probably almost be a 4.5 at this point there were moments that really moved me I teared up

there were a few times where I felt like scenes cut off a little early and I was of missing some information or wanted it to wrap up a little bit more cleanly you know just tack on a few more pages this is a big graphic novel so a few more pages wouldn't have made much of a difference but other than that this was so moving and I could connect with it on some you know on some level

so I gave it a three and a half out of five because there was a lot of it that was Ace log to get through but there was some really good parts and I also recognize that this book is just not really for me but it is well done it's very well done

I didn't love the art style it's just not a style that appeals to me generally but I thought it still worked pretty well for getting this story across and I learned a lot from this

I feel like Sally Hayden had a lot of things that she wanted to share and so she just packed it all in this book and I think if it had been cut down a little bit and if the timeline had made a bit more sense if the timeline had been more chronological it might have been better I gave it three and a half out of five stars

unfortunately this one ended up being two stars for me it's like the first third was so good and was kind of had that flavor of what I was expecting and what I was wanting and then the story really got bog down by these annoying characters and the relationship that Eda and Eddie had with them and then the pacing was just totally off with this overarching plotline with this bad guy

this is a very dark book and there are definitely dark themes explored in here it's not for the faint of heart but it is so powerful and I just found it so compelling to follow her journey even though I was reading it for the second time

I did end up giving this book for stars because there was such a large chunk of it that was incredibly compelling but I do feel like the last bit of it there was that one part where it got really slow and then there was the other part the other factor of what the author's conclusions were that just didn't quite sit right with me

my favorite parts of the story were the two relationships that Mara had the one with her mother and then the one for the woman that she was the caregiver for there was a lot of really like Beautiful Moments with those especially the woman she was caring for