Beautiful Pictures, lovely colors and humans. ( )

Maybe the book is better because a lot of things didn't make sense to me, probably my fault for not knowing it was a novel beforehand.

But I guess it was meh. I don't care for weird hippie stuff like hugging trees or being in touch with the universe. I also thought it was weird how every queer person was spiritual (I swear spirituality is worse than religion with how people truly believe in it and force it)

I am kind of tired of the whole white people this, white people that ordeal. Feminism sounds too white? Well I don't know what to tell you about that, I never thought of a word being too white. White person does something odd? Must be a white people thing. I love a good white people joke, but it becomes pretty annoying after a while. ( )

I must read the original novel that this is based off of. This graphic novel checks off all of my favorites when reading a story. Lesbian, person of color (this time a Puerto Rican from the Bronx... I am Puerto Rican from Queens, oh did I RELATE), and a real story coming of age story. Juliet's mother reminded me of mine, close minded. I related to her home life and the need to escape. Her journey to find herself spoke to me because it was all relatable.

I took off a star because I felt as if I was missing a chunk of a story which is why I want to read the original.

I received a copy of this book via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. ( )

I didn't know that this was actually adapted from the novel version. I kind of wished that I read the book before because the story was amazing and I wish that I had more of it. Also, the artwork was breathtaking I couldn't look away from it. I really loved this a lot. ( )

I wanted to read the novel before the recently released graphic novel adaptation and I’m glad that I did; although Celia Moscote’s vibrant artwork shines on its own, I don’t think I would have appreciated Juliet’s story as deeply without having read Rivera’s original work. Some of the novel’s plot points were changed drastically or omitted entirely from the graphic novel version, with one character being almost completely reimagined. I imagine this was to more easily translate the story from Juliet’s internal dialogue to the more visual interpretation, but it felt lacking in some of the character-defining conflict of the original. That being said, I loved Moscote’s interpretation of the more atmospheric sections of the story — in particular, her rendering of Juliet’s blossoming romance with Kira was really lovely. ( )