The end is here with a bit of a whimper...but overall this is bittersweet ending. ( )

If you’re in need of a quick fun graphic novel look no further than the paper girls series. ( )

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Hugo 2020 Nominations (Best Graphic);

I was not excited to see this title on the list again this year. Last year I hit *Paper Girls* for the first time, high on the thought of it being a new Brian Vaughn work I'd never read, and excited. Which lasted about twenty minutes, and ended up with me rating the Vol. 1 with exactly 1 star, because of the hodgepodge mess I found it to be.

I drug my feet opening this one because of it, BUT I found myself pleasantly surprised. I skipped a number of volumes in between, but 90% of this graphic novel made since by itself, which is basically what a conclusion arc needs to be able to do anyway. The art has improved and it was much easier to tell the girls apart this time, too.

I didn't end up with a lot of emotional involvement with the text, so much as some involvement with my feelings of the 'papergirls' together. I wish that had been strung together stronger in their last morning, as it ended up feeling more anticlimatic rather than hopeful about future bonds, especially as it was pulling them apart more than putting them together (for more than this one hour), but it was livable and I'm glad to give it a midway grade this time. ( )

I honestly don't know how I feel about this books ending. I am in shock, but I am not completed done with these girls. I want more. This book just didn't wrap everything up for me. ( )