Penelope looks like Charlie Brown meets Mr. The book turned out amazing Just look at the pictures Kelseys art looks really. Instead, the drawings look lazy, there is an awkward color palette of golden-rod/red-orange/hazy blue that didn’t make sense to me. We finally have some final printed copies of Kelsey Wrotens Cannonball. Wroten might have done something interesting with her well-trodden plot if she had been more innovative with her drawing style and color choices. And I guess I just don’t care about people who are twenty-two and lament being young “old.” Because Caroline does. There are already so many better-crafted books about artists trying to become adults, ones that explore alcohol and drug use just the same, ones with the jaded best friend and the protagonist who is the creator of her own demise but wants pity for her self-loathing. Caroline is exactly the person older generations hate when they think about twenty-somethings today. A published author has a platform to speak a truth, even in fiction, and authors who reinforce stereotypes instead are the worst. It’s easy to hate Caroline, so it’s hard to get invested in her story. Though she has a crap apartment, she refuses an offer to apply as a copywriter because “I dunno man, that’s not for me. Caroline has zero perspective but always plays the victim. I have to ask the same question - “do we really need another one?” about Cannonball.Īnd it’s true.
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