Adora and the Distance

Didn't expect that ending. It was something and not exactly in a good way...

The art is great...

The story is not. The author opens with, don't write what you know. Cause that's uncreative or something? Then goes on about how great starwars/LOTR is...then based the story on those themes/aesthetic, so in short, the author wrote about what they know. This really annoyed me immediately.

The story goes...somewhere??? and doesn't build world, characters, timeline and plot. I think most of these characters died or had a betrayal plot and I felt absolutely nothing. It kinda felt like a weird fever dream where nothing really mattered.

Was it a dream all along? No, it's autism. I think creating autism as a “twist” is just cruel. I'm not part of the autism community, I feel like this was written to comfort parents or maybe the author to self-soothe or something?? I don't think this had autism readers in mind, But, I'd like to know how someone feels about this with more experience than me. Please, share because i'm interested to know your thoughts!

Besides the art - this was not enjoyable to me.