Seconds

321 pages

English language

Published Oct. 12, 2014

ISBN:
978-0-345-52937-4
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OCLC Number:
860394948

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4 stars (4 reviews)

"Katie's got it pretty good. She's a talented young chef, she runs a successful restaurant, and she has big plans to open an even better one. Then, all at once, progress on the new location bogs down, her charming ex-boyfriend pops up, her fling with another chef goes sour, and her best waitress gets badly hurt. And just like that, Katie's life goes from pretty good to not so much. What she needs is a second chance. Everybody deserves one, after all--but they don't come easy. Luckily for Katie, a mysterious girl appears in the middle of the night with simple instructions for a do-it-yourself do-over: 1. Write your mistake 2. Ingest one mushroom 3. Go to sleep 4. Wake anew. And just like that, all the bad stuff never happened, and Katie is given another chance to get things right. She's also got a dresser drawer full of magical …

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5 stars

It's been a while since I was so blown away by such a cute thing. The art is cute, some personalities are similar, and the 4th-wall breaking is still great, very much in keeping with the Pilgrim style, but the characters are all much more likable and down to earth. Not your slacker band buddy, it's the story of a passionate chef who has our worries, always playing it cool in public and flipping out in private, and finally finds a way to "fix" things: Rewrite the past. It goes a little right and a little wrong, and then a lot wrong, but through it all, Katie keeps up her unflagging certainty that everything can be fixed. It all ends up frightening and heartwarming.

I was drawn to this by the strong parallels to a favorite Japanese series, [b:The Girl Who Leapt Through Time|5465183|The Girl Who Leapt Through Time|Yasutaka Tsutsui|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1314041670s/5465183.jpg|45430402] …

Subjects

  • Comic books, strips
  • Restaurateurs
  • Man-woman relationships
  • Women cooks
  • Restaurants