Séance Tea Party

This was fine.

A YA graphic novel about a tween struggling in that twilight between being a kid and being a AAGH IT'S PUBERTYYYYY. This girl just wants to hold onto her childhood: what with its simplicity, its purity, its fantastical imagination. She reaches out to her former invisible friend who - surprise - is a ghost of a dead girl, caught in her own limbo (only much more existential).

There is lots of very specific nerding out about being a goth. There are some accurate portrayals of that time in your life: when the high schoolers seem like MAJESTIC GIANTS that one cowers before. At the same time, I found the voice a little tinny? I struggled to connect with it; there was something a little bit “tell” more than “show”, which kept me at a distance.

I love LOOOVEEEDDDD the craftsmanship notes at the end: how the character design came together, all that.