After weeks of contemplating the cute cover of this graphic novel, I finally requested it from NetGalley. I’m glad I did! The book was as cute as the cover made me expect it would be. The story is slight - Ben has graduated college, looking for work, finds a restaurant where he fits in, despite his original plans to be a writer. The story is a nice. Owing of age tale of a boy/man learning to make his own decisions. The romance is nice, a tad slow, but overall very cute. Some weird choices marred the book from being perfect for me. The stoner roommate character detracted from every scene he was in - he added nothing to the plot and was just overall terrible. The pig-as-food critic idea was kinda neat, but the scene where he is smoking a cigarette as a shorthand way of saying he was having a food orgasm fell completely flat. Overall, a book long on cuteness, if a tad short on substance.
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