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And figure out how to make the world a better place. Srsly. Bonus: you’ll be more creative and you’ll have a better memory, too. Just go with the flow and trust the author as you follow down the rabbit hole.

If you like Seth’s earlier work, you’ll like this too. If you don’t, then maybe what he’s doing is not for you? (and if that doesn’t ring a bell, check out the book and learn what that’s all about 😉)

“Cosy mystery” — at least in my classification: lots of humanity shining through, lovely slow pace to get us going, and some medieval history thrown in.

Great book! A fab story, “coming of age” in a way but a very select episode in the author’s life and I imagine it can’t have been easy to write and draw this one. The drawings alternate “basic” with absolutely fascinatingly detailed ones that show Travis observes his surroundings very very carefully.

This was a fast read. I always think I “don’t do horror”, but I realize I don’t do tension/suspense very well. It’s ok if I can just put the book down for a bit and return to it later. This story has enough switching between the suspense/action and the quieter parts for me, and enough self-awareness of the genre. Once the action kicks in in the final few pages, I was ok, as I can totally go “Oh ok, this is a story” (why I can’t do that when they go through the door the first time, I don’t know…)

I saw somebody point out there is a decent amount of foreshadowing and yes, I figured out what was going to happen, but then I also didn’t know how it would get resolved.

All in all a fun and fast read.

Amazing drawing style and great narrative, really a wonderful memoir of a small chunk of the author’s life at a critical moment, exploring what it means to grow up.

Beautiful metaphor

Interesting premise but could get a bit wordy at times and once i read all three I couldn’t help but think back to the implied/embedded nationalism and misogyny. Or how being a historian of China ruins everything 😅