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This story just like Scott Pilgrim has quirky characters and a sense of light-heartness and sincerity. These come mostly in the form of dialogues and how Brian Lee O'Malley draws his characters. Many times the scenes look only like a colored draft. Yet, this doesn't stop the characters' expressions and reactions to instantly put a smile on my face.

The story itself is darker than Scott Pilgrim. Featuring the usual dilemmas of time traveling and messing with choices and timelines.

Nonetheless, just like Scott Pilgrim, I felt that the end of the story fell short and somewhat rushed. We got some sort of “epilogue” and “what happened after”, the problem however, was how fast the story's conflict resolved itself.

It's a pretty book and I'm happy to have it displayed in my bookshelf. I don't deny that I may come to it from time to time, only if just to remember to:

“Have the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference”.