This would maybe be a funny/gross premise if Lottie (or any of the other characters) had any kind of redeeming qualities, but they’re all horrible, vapid people being terrible and catty to each other. I mean, how is she supposed to be a picture-perfect fashion blogger if she can’t even control her nasal passages? Lottie Person, the main character, has an epic allergy problem that generates awful green snot at the most inopportune of times. To be fair, the unpleasantness is right there in the title. However, slight or not, they’re both light-years better than his newest series, the willfully unpleasant Snotgirl. His follow-up to Scott Pilgrim, Seconds, was better but still felt a bit lacking – I barely remember anything about either book. His first book, Lost at Sea, was mostly just slight. I really loved the Scott Pilgrim books when I read them a few years ago – Goodreads tells me I gave the entire series five stars – but nothing else I’ve read by Bryan Lee O’Malley has lived up to that standard of quality.
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