Jerry Cooke
4.25⭐️ - A comic book romance with a sharp turn into darkness.
Jubilee (appropriately comic named) is a higher achiever who has lost her spark recently, with the pressure to perform at her upcoming cello audition mounting up as she pins her hopes on what it could mean. When she attends a major comic convention with her step-mother (the owner of the eponymous Verona Comics) and her best friend, she has a mission to let go and to find a con crush.
Ridley is horribly anxious and hates working conventions for his father's massive comic corporation. The one that has put so many indie stores out of business and is widely panned by true comic lovers. He's temped to blow off the last night prom and when a girl dressed as his favourite comic book character appears rushing into the elevator, his stress anxiety doubles.
This book is in equal parts sweet and painful. Dealing with topics of expectation, pressure, and depression. Ridley's relationship with his parents is stranded and his former depressive periods don't help, and Jubilee finds it so hard to balance her life. Alongside these important mental health topics, there's also decision of not being queer enough, with the characters being pan and bi respectively, but in this straight passing relationship.
It's Dugan in top form, a devastating story balanced out with love and hope.
4.25⭐️ - A comic book romance with a sharp turn into darkness.
Jubilee (appropriately comic named) is a higher achiever who has lost her spark recently, with the pressure to perform at her upcoming cello audition mounting up as she pins her hopes on what it could mean. When she attends a major comic convention with her step-mother (the owner of the eponymous Verona Comics) and her best friend, she has a mission to let go and to find a con crush.
Ridley is horribly anxious and hates working conventions for his father's massive comic corporation. The one that has put so many indie stores out of business and is widely panned by true comic lovers. He's temped to blow off the last night prom and when a girl dressed as his favourite comic book character appears rushing into the elevator, his stress anxiety doubles.
This book is in equal parts sweet and painful. Dealing with topics of expectation, pressure, and depression. Ridley's relationship with his parents is stranded and his former depressive periods don't help, and Jubilee finds it so hard to balance her life. Alongside these important mental health topics, there's also decision of not being queer enough, with the characters being pan and bi respectively, but in this straight passing relationship.
It's Dugan in top form, a devastating story balanced out with love and hope.