The Love Report

Really wanted to love this one especially because of the age group that's being targeted and was into for the first half, but then my feelings quickly went down hill.

The artwork was absolutely wonderful (5/5!!!), and the original concept was cute. Unfortunately, I felt that the execution of the overall story was very disappointing.

One of the biggest issues I had was the type of language that was being thrown around because it was very body/sex shaming and name calling/bullying. There isn't a great resolution in multiple instances despite there being an opportunity to really have teachable moments about why we shouldn't use language like that.

There were quite a few heavy topics discussed and I personally would want to be having additional conversations with my young reader outside of this book because there isn't a lot of nuance here and while I understand this is targeting a younger audience and is also a graphic novel so there is a desire for it to be shorter, I still think there could have been a more in depth discussion and learning that could have occurred.

***Thank you to Astra Publishing House and Hippo Park for providing me with the eBook for free via NetGalley for an unbiased review.

cute short story

I thought this was going to be a lot cuter than it actually was.
why were they going around calling their classmates bimbos and sluts??