With a great writer and amazing illustrator at the helm and a great premise behind it, this should’ve been an easy home run. Alas, I cannot fully put into actual human words the full breadth and width and depth of my disappointment in this. If only this were a series instead of one single book that left me wanting.
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I agree with you completely. Fantastic artwork, I really can’t say enough good things about Jen Wang’s work. The story is super after school special, though. He took a very complicated issue and really didn’t give himself enough room to expound on it. And yes, very white saviory.
I haven’t yet checked to see what else Wang has done, but I hope there’s more with stronger writing to support it. Can you imagine what he could’ve done in a longer format?
I’ve told about 4 people to “troll the respawn, Jeremy” over the past few days. It hasn’t been met with much enthusiasm.
It will be, and then you can look down your nose at the latecomers, because we will have moved on to something else. Or perhaps it will remain a classic like, “All I’ve had today is like six gummy bears and some scotch.”
I basically wrote this just to use that phrase, and it’s only barely relevant. Can it be a thing already?
I really liked this book, but your title is epic. Troll the respawn, Jeremy. Hashbrown no filter.
I can see why you loved it, too! It just had so much promise. It didn’t live up to it for me, though. It’s not a problem of being bad as it is just me wanting more. Kelly Schmidt is a gem. It really is.