'Kirby's Lessons for Falling (in Love)' is one of my new favorite graphic novels and a key contender for favorite of the year and it's not even out till the next one!

This graphic novel has everything you need to fall in love, whether thats with Kirby Tan, the storyline, the gorgeous romance, the atmosphere, the hope or the artwork in general. I was so attached to Kirby from the very first page and was bawling by the last. There is so much hope and young love and second chances all wrapped in this little book. This is a story I'll cherish forever, I need to hold this physically in my hands desperately.

You will root for these characters that only live in this 2D space because while reading they feel more dimensional than any person you've met. You will hope for them, love them and watch them fall over and over again and still reach a hand out to pull them back up.

Laura Gao please never stop creating.

I felt bad for the main character and how she had to recover form her fathers passing while trying to be the daughter that her mother always wanted. 10/10 read.

I was really interested and locked in the very beginning of this graphic novel, especially all the stuff having to do with climbing. Once the character's story switched to her joining the school paper I was pretty bored. I stuck with it until close to 70%, but tbh it felt like torture. I was fully bored by this one.

Thank you to NetGalley for providing me with an e-copy of this book. I’ll first start off by saying that I liked the art style and the overall message even if it was hard to discern. But I had a really hard time following along which is an issue that I’ve never with graphic novels. It seemed like the panels would just jump around and the text didn’t make sense in a lot of places. It felt like I was missing pages sometimes. There would be random characters that would pop up out of nowhere and talk and then the next panel they would be completely gone and it would be a new set of characters. There would be text bubbles that just sounded like they weren’t supposed to be there, and didn’t flow with the rest of the text on the page. It just made reading this a chore and unenjoyable.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for this ARC in exchange for my honest review!!

Wasn’t a huge fan of the art style here, but I enjoyed where the story went. Kirby’s interest in climbing because of her dad was sweet. I’m glad she got some closure and character development. This was a cute graphic novel and I’ll have to read more from this author for sure!