Review: "My Last Summer with Cass" by Mark Crilley

My Last Summer with Cass by Mark Crilley
Published March 2021 via Little, Brown Ink
★★★

Megan and Cass are summer friends—they don't see each other for most of the year, but when they're together, they're inseparable. They push each other artistically and understand each other like nobody else...until Cass moves to New York and they drift apart. But one last summer together gives them a chance to connect again...until it all falls apart.

I like the art here a lot (except maybe the eyes, which are so cartoonishly large—all pupil and no iris—that they look like black holes). I was a little more meh on the story: Megan and Cass are given roles and not really allowed to deviate from them (one of them is the cool one and one of them is the small-town good girl), and the way things fall apart makes me want more time for independent character development before the story's resolution (rather than a sort of jump cut). Reminds me a little of Blue Is the Warmest Color in the angst level.

Love that this is a friendship story (no romance!), but probably not one that I'll return to.