As memorable and entertaining of a reading experience as I've had in years. Shocking, funny, absurd, but also very thoughtful and hard-hitting as satire. I think it's a rare turn to be able to not completely lose the message inside such an outlandish scenario, but the novel is very focused despite being seemingly all over the place. The Sellout brings up questions of ownership, not only of property but also of culture and lifestyle in a "post-racist" America that offered a new perspective to me personally by bringing into focus the fact that no longer talking about something doesn't make it no longer exist, and in fact, can tend to make it even worse.

Reviewed on Wednesday, October 25th, 2023, 7:40am.

Another great continuation of the story. I didn’t quite expect to fly through it like this but it’s exactly what I was hoping for to kickstart my reading again. The story is building nicely to a big emotional payoff, and there are nice, smaller emotional payoffs throughout so far. Vaughan, and through the excellent art of Fiona Staples, has created such a rich collection of colorful (literally) characters, and they’ve gotten me to care about them all in one way or another: whether it’s affection or hate, sometimes both in one.

Reviewed on Sunday, January 15th, 2023, 3:03pm.

It was a big risk to split the crew of the Rocinante as the authors did in this novel, but it paid off in huge ways. Each of the four "branches" of the story is deeply compelling and action-packed, and the stakes feel absolutely massive in this installation. Amos' section in particular might have been my favorite as it was so close to the devastating catastrophe brought on by the Free Navy, but Naomi's zero-suit space jump probably takes the cake as the peak of the novel.

Reviewed on Wednesday, June 1st, 2022, 12:00am.

I finished this book basically in one sitting, which is somewhat rare. It was well-written and a unique perspective on gender that I am admmittedly pretty unfamiliar. I think I learned a little bit here.

Reviewed on Sunday, June 19th, 2022, 12:00am.