A phenomenally unique graphic novel! The whole concept of living in a zero-g world makes such an exciting premise for a story, and Willa is the ideal main character to take the lead: she’s funny, brave, and curious, and she makes me very eager to see where the series goes from here. (Also that ending had me ( )

What a cool idea, and I love the art. Imagining a world with sudden low-g is amazing. ( )

This holds promise. There's an interesting premise with some intriguing machinations and Evil Corporation. But the world building... Yeah. Thinking about the logistics of everything made my head hurt because obviously, if gravity just ceased working one day and everything that wasn't attached to the Earth would float into space, how is there atmosphere??? How is rain (depicted as a giant floating water blob) possible? NOTHING MAKES SENSE.

And despite it all, I couldn't get my disbelief to suspend enough to fully buy into the story.

Review copy courtesy of the publisher. ( )

A high-concept book -- gravity stops working!! -- that doesn't fully explore the implications of its premise, content to reduce the story to a bad rich man trying to maintain the new dystopian status quo in order to protect his profits. So of course he must destroy the only man who could fix gravity, the widower father of our spirited protagonist, a young woman who has grown up without gravity and yearns to leave Chicago and explore the wide world, despite how dangerous that might be. (Has Disney optioned this?)

This is dumb sci-fi. The world looks pretty normal except for all the floating people trying not to fall to their deaths into the sky. There are still schools and nightclubs, for instance. But I'm pretty sure that with little to no gravity, just to nitpick, there would be no air for the characters to breathe in their classrooms or water to splash into their alcoholic beverages. But no, the air is fine, and as for water it just floats around the sky in big blobs of course because only solid things like people and cars can make it to orbit.

I probably should stop here, but I have the next volume on hand, so I'm going to read it anyway and see if things improve. ( )

Really interesting premise, and I like the characters. There's even a fat character, and at least in this volume no jokes or gross comments about her weight. I'm definitely going to read more. Note for school visits: there's a classroom scene where they talk about safe sex in terms of gravity and a line about the possibility of getting pregnant from airborn sperm. But it's not on page explicit anything, so probably still ok? I haven't decided if I'll bring it to our 8th graders yet.

Also, the creative ways characters develop to deal with their weightlessness reminded me of the video game Mirror's Edge. ( )