I don’t read a lot of graphic novels so I’m interested to see how I like this one!

i really liked the first one when i read it (quite a few years ago now!) and i am HATING the sequel. i don't know if my tastes have changed (the most likely thing) or if the book is genuinely bad (i don't think it's this one!). i hate romance but i found the first one so compelling. the romance in the second one is making me wanna barf.

Ok so this whole book is just an alternate version of the Dead Gay Sons scene/song from Heathers? Got it, got it.

I’m curious about whether every character in the novel has a real life counterpart. Harriet Tubman and her brother Moses are of course real. DJ Quakes is also pretty obviously Benjamin Lay. But I don’t immediately recognize Odessa or Buck - does anyone know if they have real life equivalents, or if they’re meant to be purely fictional characters?

this is so petty but i hate the way natalie naudus pronounces chinese names. i know it's mostly because cora is an abc and this is how many abcs pronounce chinese names when speaking in english, but even when yifei (not an abc) mentions the name "he yuxi" the pronunciation is still off?? why on earth is "he" pronounced in the first tone, i've never heard of any "he" surname with the first tone? it's either second or fourth tone 😭 anyway if you're fluent in chinese like me i'm not sure i'd recommend the audiobook. i've been stuck on this mispronunciation for the past ten minutes