A teenager Dixie practicing Hapkido, her friendship with Avril and her crush on a fellow martial artist are well developed. Plot is fast enough and black-and-white pencil work is popping up but not so much to distract the story. Not bulky, just 148 pages!
As one of reviewers wrote "racial and economic issues explored in the narrative are seamlessly integrated as realities of Dixie’s life," ethnic and multicultural factors, such as the main character Dixie is a Korean American teenager, she is learning a Korean martial art in the Koreatown in LA, and her dad's business was flatten down during the LA Riots in 1992, are credibly well blended in.
My excitement about this book also comes from the fact that those multicultural elements add more depth to the story. It seems that an author wanted to narrate a teen character, who lets out her growing pains through a marital art, and he successfully set her in a Koreatown in LA. As he sees it, it is a romance graphic novel. Great entry book for girls and boys who have grown out of the strawberry bubblegum flavor.
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