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I finally got to read this one. I had to ILL it from another library and it took me a bit to get through.

I am not a huge poetry reader so this was definitely a step outside my box. I do enjoy it when older stories get retold using the graphic novel style and the art work for this book was simplistic but effective in describing the story being told.

The ending was tragic and it led me to start thinking about how for a long time certain people, and especially minorities, were not allowed to have happy endings in literature. My focus has been primarly on LGBTQ characters in liturature and how their stories almost always end in tragedy, but I have been branching out in my reading and I have found this trope holds true within other forms of literature as well, especially for Black and Brown people.

All in all it was an interesting read and accomplished the goal I had when joining the group which was to explore other genre of graphic novels.