lizardgoats's reviews
757 reviews

This is now on my shortlist of fave non-fiction aspec books. It's a great primer to ace and aro identities without feeling like it was written for teenagers.

That being said it very much is written for the chronically online millenial and gen z crowd. Full of Tumblr speak and pop culture references, it's an enjoyable read that flows with the same snappy repetoire that Sarah and Kayla have in their podcast--which this book stems from.

Highly recommend this graphic novel. The stories inside feel both connected and disconnected to each other--as if they are interplaying together and inform each other, while also totally able to stand alone.

In a couple, "Come Back to Me" in particular, it's as if two stories are being told in tandem. One with the text and another with the pictures. I've never read anything like that.

I think my favorite, however, was "Swan Dive." Almost disturbing, but yet gorgeous in it's imagery and storytelling. 

This is exactly the type of book I like to read--ambiguous, almost mystical, that really makes you think about what story is being told. And why.

Started this book two years ago and set it aside. It seemed like the moody, near-poetic, reflective memoir I typically enjoy, but I found it clunky to read and never got subsumed in it.

Okay so the author is a slam poet with an NPR Tiny Desk Concert--and listening to the Tank and the Bangas' Tiny Desk is transformative. 1000% recommend looking them up.

Book is still really good tho and I think it's a good supplement to the live performance. I would recommend the audiobook (even tho I haven't listened to it) since it's narrated by the author.

Being generous with my stars. The format of the book--written in verse--is such a cool take on the form of a novel. Also vampires! But I was really unnerved by their first meeting when she's a kid, then 19 when they "fall in love," the fact he's married, and the general power imbalance of an immortal with a teenager.

That being said, it obviously has a framework taken straight from Romeo & Juliet (not to mention classic vampire tales) so I get why a lot of the tropes in it were used. I just didn't particularly like any of them.

Not upset I read it or that I don't like it much. It was still an interesting concept for a novel (as in form not genre) with beautiful prose and imagery.