✍️📝Review: Graphic Novel Finish Lines

Miranda needs something to write about in her college application essays. But what?

Miranda has a plan: ace her junior year, get into an Ivy League school, and skip anything that doesn’t look good on a college application. But the pressure is getting to her, and now her parents have cut her off from every club, competition, and committee she’s a part of.

Desperate to get back on track, Miranda sets her sights on the Texas Water Safari—a 260-mile canoe race her mom was set to do with her granddad. With her mom sidelined by an injury, Miranda joins her grandfather. It’s grueling, messy, and scorching hot.

Can a perfectionist survive the wild long enough to find out who she is outside of a college checklist?

5 Stars

Wonderful message. It's good to have goals and be ambitious, but... not to the detriment of happiness or health, not only from an adult who had succumbed to addiction and found a new beginning and the right path by helping her daughter stay safe from the mistakes she made in the past, but also from a young woman finding her voice in a competitive, demanding world. I am glad the graphic novel is dual-color only, with tones of blue and dark. We focus more on the expression and the mood of the environment through the usage of sharp contrasts. Both mother and daughter are not perfect, but their learning and growth make it relatable, inspiring, and hopeful.

Sometimes we set our expectations too high, and we can be our worst enemies, demanding to do it perfectly at first. But those expectations, socially or peer-imposed, can become smaller goals when we realize the true purpose or function of what we're trying to accomplish.

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