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May 27, 2014KateHillier rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
There's a lot here that people will find familiar. This graphic novel takes the form of a diary as Kim (also called Skim) talks about her life at a girl's high school in the 1990s. When a classmate commits suicide everyone is forced into counseling and then everyone decides Kim is going to be next because of her interest in Wicca. A group of girls rally around the dead boy's ex-girlfriend, who looks less than impressed for the attention, while Kim and her friend Lisa drift in and out of each others' company and Kim falls in love with her English teacher, Ms. Archer. It's an honest piece of work. Kim isn't above the other girls, she just doesn't see herself as one of them, and she is as quick to make judgement of others as they are to make them of her. Overall a very enjoyable, and slightly nostalgic, read.