Snotgirl, Vol. 1: Green Hair Don't Care review
Title: Snotgirl, Vol. 1: Green Hair Don't Care
Author(s): Bryan Lee O'Malley & Leslie Hung
My rating: ★★★
Format: Paperback
content warnings: stalking, death, blood, gore, use of medication
representation: black side characters, asian-american side character
Review can also be found on my goodreads.
I'm not entirely sure what I just read but I think I liked it?? Snotgirl follows Lottie, a famous fashion blogger who presents a very glamorous version of herself online. Offline, however, her life's kind of a mess as she deals with her allergies, terrible friends, an ex-boyfriend, and maybe killing someone.
The plot is really weird and kind of confusing because the entire thing is from Lottie's POV, and there are parts where she doesn't seem to be able to discern what's real and what's not. There isn't really an explanation in this volume (it's hinted at that it's her new meds, but nothing is confirmed), and that entire aspect of the book was both a positive and a negative. On one hand, it made it more interesting, but it also made it unnecessarily confusing sometimes.
You need to know before going into this that every single person is awful. Lottie is judgmental and vapid, as is everyone around her. Personally, I thought they were an entertaining kind of awful, but that's definitely going to be something that's going to rub people the wrong way.
Easily the highlight of this entire volume was the art. It's really cute and the colouring makes everything extremely aesthetically pleasing with its use of greens. Leslie Hung and Mickey Quinn deserve so much credit for how pretty they made this graphic novel.
Overall, this is weird. I liked it well enough, but that will definitely not be the case for everyone.
Author(s): Bryan Lee O'Malley & Leslie Hung
My rating: ★★★
Format: Paperback
content warnings: stalking, death, blood, gore, use of medication
representation: black side characters, asian-american side character
Review can also be found on my goodreads.
I'm not entirely sure what I just read but I think I liked it?? Snotgirl follows Lottie, a famous fashion blogger who presents a very glamorous version of herself online. Offline, however, her life's kind of a mess as she deals with her allergies, terrible friends, an ex-boyfriend, and maybe killing someone.
The plot is really weird and kind of confusing because the entire thing is from Lottie's POV, and there are parts where she doesn't seem to be able to discern what's real and what's not. There isn't really an explanation in this volume (it's hinted at that it's her new meds, but nothing is confirmed), and that entire aspect of the book was both a positive and a negative. On one hand, it made it more interesting, but it also made it unnecessarily confusing sometimes.
You need to know before going into this that every single person is awful. Lottie is judgmental and vapid, as is everyone around her. Personally, I thought they were an entertaining kind of awful, but that's definitely going to be something that's going to rub people the wrong way.
Easily the highlight of this entire volume was the art. It's really cute and the colouring makes everything extremely aesthetically pleasing with its use of greens. Leslie Hung and Mickey Quinn deserve so much credit for how pretty they made this graphic novel.
Overall, this is weird. I liked it well enough, but that will definitely not be the case for everyone.
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