Not a romance, more a weird mashup of several subgenres (scifi, biography, romance, history, something new). Tries to be too many things and doesn't resolve the myriad plot lines in a satisfactory manner. I don't know what's happened to a bunch of the characters to get them to the last few panels, and that's not a great indicator.

Pros: I liked the art, the premise was fun, the historical characters were entertaining. Enjoyed the shout outs to Ada Lovelace and powerful modern women. ( )

I was caught by the premise of this—millennial programmer girl teaming up with her childhood crush, Lord Byron?—but it didn’t hold up for me. Sure, there were cute moments and awesome moments and the “head-over-heels” thing actually turned into character development, but overall… eh. A lot happened, much of which felt disconnected, random, or like the creative team had these cool set pieces they wanted to do and were constructing a plot around them. I had a hard time following some of what went on and some of the character motivations and backstories felt flat.

There’s just enough good here that I can’t dislike it, and just enough not-good that I can’t like it. Unfortunately. Even the images of Casanova as an evil glam rocker can’t redeem it.

Warnings: Gore. Sexist characters.

5/10 ( )