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Rating: 3.5/5
Pages: 176
Started: 23 May 2024
Finished: 23 May 2024
Summary:
In an futuristic world where AI robots and humans live side by side, adventurous human girl Indira---still struggling through the trauma and lasting injury from the car accident that killed her parents--finds herself working on an art piece with a tall blonde robot girl named Fawn. Although initially Indira is initially skeptical about a robot's ability to create meaningful or creative art, the two girls find themselves drawn closer and closer together.
Thoughts:
This was a super cute story, with beautiful art. The futuristic aesthetic came through really well through the imagery and colors, and I really liked the background design (present but opaque enough it still left some things to the imagination) and the character design. Every few pages, there was a black-and-white page with a single sentence on AI development in society, and the aesthetic impact of that was very cool (even if it made the message of the book as a whole feel convoluted; it presented an AI person as human-like, but those statements were a bit ominous). The trauma-representative monster that haunted Indira was also a very effective physical representation of emotion, although I wish it had been elaborated on more.
There were a lot of things I wanted more detail on, really; a graphic novel under 200 pages doesn't leave enough room for plot and character development to feel full. Indira's chronic illness & trauma could have been flushed out with more detail--as is, it felt as though their representation was their resolution, with no struggle once the explanation for the pain was out in the open. I wanted more from the AI story too. It was very sweet that she found love, but her body & life seemed somewhat allegorical of the trans experience (a tall person who isn't quite accepted by society as a normal girl) although that was never developed, nor was the implications of an artistic humanoid AI robot and what that means for physical artists (aside from the fact that the two can recognize each other's genius, but that seems to ignore all the ways AI thieves from existing artists to create). I also just wanted more material in the romance. With another 100 pages I think this book could have been amazing, although despite its beauty, in its current format it just left me wanting more.