My Rating: 3 stars
I read Debbie Tung’s Book Love last year
and absolutely loved it! As a fellow bookworm, I was able to relate
to practically everything that was in that book and would be nodding my head
with a smile on my face as I turned each page.
It was precisely because of my affinity for Tung’s
previous book that I decided to pick up her newest work Happily Ever
After. Just like with Book Love, this is
another comic collection drawn by Tung herself , with inspiration from her own
life’s experiences, except that this time around, instead of being about books,
it is about marriage and relationships – specifically her own married life with
her husband. While I did like
reading this one for the most part and thought it was definitely a cute read
overall, I unfortunately wasn’t able to relate to most of the “sweet and
mundane moments” depicted in here. Some
of the comics did make me smile, but the enjoyment level, of course, wasn’t on
par with what I had felt with Tung’s previous collection of comics about books
and being a book lover.
Basically, this was an instance of me picking up this
book purely because of the author / illustrator, which I’m ok with doing for
graphic novels and comics, since these are usually short and don’t take up too
much of my time to read. I will likely
still pick up Tung’s next collection of comics even if it’s a subject matter
that doesn’t appeal much to me, as I do like her illustrations quit a bit and definitely
don’t mind seeing more of it!
Received ARC from Andrews McMeel Publishing via
Edelweiss.
