Bloom Graphic Novel Spoiler Free Review

 

I was able to finish the graphic novel Bloom by Kevin Panetta these past few days. Here is the summary and here are my thoughts on it.

Bloom is a story about a Greek-American young man named Ari who has a band with his friends, and they want to move to the big city to live together and maybe make it big with their band. But his father wants him to take over the bakery that he and his family own. Ari did used to love baking, but over the years fell out of love with it due to his strained relationship with his family. Ari decides to find someone else in the area to hire to do all the baking and running of the shop. He ends up recruiting another young man, a Samoan guy named Hector who is around his age, to do it. While working together they become good friends and Hector even restores Ari's love of baking. However, Hector isn't the biggest fond of the rest of Ari's friends, especially one of them named Cameron because he's really toxic, but Ari doesn't realize how toxic Cameron is. Luckily, Ari does get along well with Hector friends, a girl named Meg and even Hector's ex boyfriend, Andrew. Basically, Ari and Hector encounter a lot of obstacles in their friendship and eventual romantic relationship, but being a romance, you know it will work out in the end. 

The story was fairly good. It was interesting at the time I was reading it since it was mostly about baking which I love. The artwork is pretty, too.

If you couldn't tell by the tone in which I write this, it was entertaining but nothing mind-blowing. There are some parts that could've been done a bit better, like I felt Ari and Hector's relationship was a bit rushed towards the end, and there were some parts where I found Ari's behavior kind of annoying. 

So this was a 4 star book. Overall it was good, but it's not one of my favorite books I read this year.

What are your favorite desserts (if you like sweet food)?