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Emily Carroll's art, as always, is fantastic. I haven't read the original novel, but it works beautifully as a graphic novel. The emotional bite is razor sharp, the story is haunting, and I teared up a ton. This is not my first rodeo reading about SA, nor about such young kids' traumas around SA, but I thought this was such a beautiful and heartwrenchingly realistic look into a time and place of a high schooler in this situation.
Yes, the ending was very positive... very “things worked out and will continue to work out!” But to be honest, I think I needed that.