Flutter, Volume Two: Don't Let Me Die Nervous

Flutter #2

by Jennie Wood, Jeff McComsey (Illustrator)

In Flutter, Volume 2: Don’t Let Me Die Nervous, Lily learns that even a 15 year-old shape-shifter can’t run away from her problems. With her loved ones in danger, she returns to St. Charles to live as Jesse and protect them. But knowing what she’s capable of, can Lily be content as a popular high school varsity quarterback?

Flutter, Volume Two: Don't Let Me Die Nervous will be released in 2015.

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, LGBT, Queer, Romance, Graphic Novels Comics

100 pages, Paperback

First published September 25, 2015

About the author

Jennie Wood is a nonbinary author, comic creator, and musician, currently living in Boston. They created the critically acclaimed, award-winning Flutter graphic novel series. Featured in The New York Times, Boston Globe, and on Law & Order: SVU, Flutter was named one of the best LGBTQ graphic novels of 2013 and 2015 by The Advocate. In November 2018, Dark Horse Comics published The Flutter Collection, all three volumes combined into one book. That collection won the Next Generation Indie Book award for best graphic novel of 2019.

Jennie is also the author of the YA novel, A Boy Like Me, which was a Next Generation Indie Book awards finalist, an INDIEFAB Book of the Year finalist, and one of Foreword Reviews’ 10 Best Indie YA novels for 2014. Their work can also be seen in The New York Times best-selling, award-winning FUBAR anthologies, The New York Times best-selling and Eisner award-winning anthology Love is Love, the Harvey-nominated 27, A Comic Anthology, and John Carpenter's Tales for a HalloweeNight.

More: jenniewood.com

Reviews

[Jake T. · Rating 5 out of 5]

Love this volume - even more than the first volume and I liked the first one a lot. Loved seeing Lily come into her own, explore what she can do and own up to her actions. Loved the pace of the story. Also, the color work in volume two by Chris Goodwin is amazing. Cannot wait for volume three!

[Jake T. · Rating 5 out of 5]

Love this volume - even more than the first volume and I liked the first one a lot. Loved seeing Lily come into her own, explore what she can do and own up to her actions. Loved the pace of the story. Also, the color work in volume two by Chris Goodwin is amazing. Cannot wait for volume three!

[Lorene · Rating 2 out of 5]

I received the graphic novel through Goodreads in a giveaway. Flutter Volume's 1 and 2 are about a girl that can physically change her form into a boy. The government is searching for her and her father. They want her because of her powers. They want him because she was an unexpected part of an experiment and her father took her. The girls mother can also change forms and helps to hide them. They move to a new town and Lily falls in love with a girl. The girl is straight so Lily becomes a guy and enters the new student as this boy. The story was very confusing at times. The reader would just catch up to what was happening and than suddenly everyone was somewhere else with something else happening. A lot of the characters were drawn with similar characteristics so they were difficult to tell apart. It has a good premise but it needed to be fleshed out more so the story flowed from scene to scene.

[Stanley · Rating 3 out of 5]

My thoughts on Volume Two were very similar to those on Volume 1. A decent read with decent art that occasionally got sloppy. However, through the first four parts, the story flowed much better this time, however, it did lose it's way in the fifth.

Worth the read, but was hoping it would evolve a bit more.

[Francis Belmont · Rating 5 out of 5]

Really enjoyed volume two - couldn't put it down. Can't wait for volume three!