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Distant Stars

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This is the wrap-up to the Life on Earth series. For those who haven't read it, the series is about a teenage girl who goes missing and details how her classmates and the town are impacted. There are supernatural elements to the story. Mari Naomi wraps the series up neatly with each of the characters kind of coming full circle and reaching satisfying endings, but it still leaves much unanswered.

The series as a whole is not my favorite in the world, but it does have some interesting art styles at times and addresses many difficult topics such as interpersonal and dating violence, teenage pregnancy and abortion, coming out, substance abuse, and mental health issues without coming across as judgmental or pushy.

I personally would have enjoyed more substance, but it was nice to have a "happy ending" because I don't get those in my reading very often. If you are looking for a fast, feel-good story, pick up all three books and read them in one sitting.

Note: I received a free copy of this book from NetGalley. I was not compensated in any other fashion for the review and the opinions reflected below are entirely my own. Special thanks to the publisher and author for providing the copy.

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I really love this book more than any other that I've read before! I reaply loved this graphic novel!

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This was cute and touching story. It was abstract both in its narrative and its art, and while I appreciated that, I failed to connect with it. Granted, I haven't read the first two comics. Perhaps that's my fault, or perhaps NetGalley should provide us with the last two so we have what we need to properly review it. Sadly, it is what it is.

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I have not read past editions of this series.
So I had difficulty in getting on with characters in story. I could have missed subtle angles of story.

What I can say that I liked the style of the artist. It was freehand , ever-changing, malleable art style which had easy metamorphosis in each section.
Drawings were clean and non congested.
It was easy to turn pages quickly while reading the book.
250 pages didn't appear too heavy or long.
I will try to read other parts to make full sense of the circumstances of the characters.
Thanks netgalley and publisher for review copy.

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I really enjoyed this graphic novel because of its art style and entrenching plot. I would highly recommend this to fans of graphic novels and odd, interesting stories.

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This is a very fluid story of friends in high school, and relationships that were formed in the two earlier books. And since I haven't read the two earlier books, I was no as invested in their stories. However, what little I did read seemed very heartfelt.

Coming out, losing a parent, absent parents are all things that happen, and so it was revealing to hear the inner thoughts as each person went through these emotions.

I'm sure it would have been more striking if I'd followed their story from the start, as the little that is revealed is heartbreaking at times.

Thanks to Netgalley for making this book available for an honest review.

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Thanks to NetGalley for having this book available to read. In brutal honesty, I didn't like it at all. It could possibly be that I didn't get to read the prior two volumes so my rating might have been different.

However, I got lost in the storyline, whatever it was; and the recap of the previous books were of no help.

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Even though this was a new book in a series I never read, it was not too hard to follow. Very quick read.

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