Reviews and Comments

Beautiful, poignant, and deeply considered story & world. Come for the girls with swords, stay for the analysis of the powers of stories as weapons, and as tools for peace.

I appreciated the afterwords & making of immensely as well. I loved being enveloped by the Arab representation. And felt the potent veracity when one is lucky to be trusted with art from the creators’ experiences. I’m so glad this book exists.

So thankful for Maia and eir work. I didn’t realize I needed the representation that I did. I think I’m used to always being kinda weird and unique, but it was really nice to see so much of my “normal” be kin to someone else’s. Let alone a cool comic maker’s.

Very personally attacked about picking pronouns that won’t inconvenience people too much & wont make them mad.

But I needed to hear it before sending the coming out email.

This is so fascinating. I have a LOT in common with Maia, but so far I feel like Maia was… doing it with intention? Thinking through it? & stressing about it?

On the other hand I’ve been doing gender avoidance rather unintentionally, and thoroughly by vibes. Huh.

100000000% recommend, especially right now.

If you can afford to, buy a few copies of this graphic version and the original version and put them in little free libraries or parks etc near you!

Pretty wild to reread this book I read countless times as a child, now as an adult having survived the puberty thing and having also seen an aurora irl.

I loved the visuals and I loved what I started to feel, but I didn’t understand or follow it well. I’m not sure how much of that is brain fog. It was beautiful though.

Rereading books during insomnia nights continues!

Loved this a child. Really curious to see how my adult prospecting has changed or not and in what ways.

I’m Chap 3, “Lyra’s Jordan” and I always found her life so aspirational and relatable. Adventuresome, poor impulse control/exec function, instinctual, clever, lurks around historical buildings exploring and learning everything she can. Kinda the dream.

How do I get to just haunt a university with a cool library. Dream job alert !

It’s aged a bit, but I still love how much Morgenstern loves immersive experiences and strange entertainment. Me too, me too.

Def think Starless Sea is next on my bad reading—if I can handle it. It might be too advanced for my correct cognitive and I might audiobook it, but I’d like to try the ebook

Did not finish.

Loved the creatures, couldn’t stand most of the humans. No offense to Alia, she’s trying her best but she needs another decade of therapy to get healthier. I’ve been there.

Such intention & craft.

Phenomenal collection!