First: Thank you to Netgalley and Candlewick for sharing this copy with me in exchange for my honest review. Second: I am aware this review is very late, and I apologize for that. I had some difficulties in late 2018 that resulted in a backlog of read and unreviewed ARCs that I am working through right now. I take full ownership of this, and I sincerely apologize. Lost Soul, Be At Peace is a graphic memoir, a genre I have not read before. Points for new things! However, I am also unsure of how I'd like to go about reviewing, so this will be a bulleted mini-review. ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Lost Soul, Be at Peace is Maggie Thrash's second book, the first being Honor Girl, which I have not read. I had been assured that reading Honor Girl was not necessary to understand this book, and I do feel that is probably true.
Synopsis: A year and a half after the summer that changed her life, Maggie Thrash wishes she could change all it back. She's trapped in a dark depression and flunking the 11th grade, befuddling her patrician mother while going unnoticed by her father, a workaholic federal judge. The only thing Maggie really cares about is her cat, Tommi...who then disappears somewhere in the walls of her cavernous house. So her search begins… but Maggie’s not exactly sure what she’s lost, and she has no idea what she’ll find. In her critically acclaimed memoir, Honor Girl, Maggie Thrash brilliantly, beautifully portrayed the before and after of first love. Lost Soul, Be At Peace is the ingenious continuation of Maggie’s story, bringing her devastating honesty and humor to the before and after of depression. It marks the return of a truly heartbreaking, visionary voice in graphic novels, and pushes her storytelling to astounding new heights. This is how it feels to search for something that’s been lost forever. The Good:
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