Published May 2021 via Graphix
★★★★
Sweet. This is a 3.5-star read for me, but I probably would have gotten a bit more out of it if I hadn't jumped in in the middle of the series, and teenaged me would have loved it. I don't have a great handle on the side characters (again, jumped in in the middle, so that's on me), so I wouldn't really recommend reading this as a standalone, but it's clear that Oseman put a lot of care into addressing mental health and family dynamics here. In particular, she focuses on the getting-well part of things—acknowledging that there aren't instant fixes—rather than dwelling on illness, and when illness is discussed it's largely in terms of what it does emotionally rather than on behaviours.
I'll leave it at that—I'm unlikely to read the rest of the series (though you never know; it's not what I'm looking for in graphic novels at the moment, but there will be other moments), but I see why the series is so popular.
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