After the tension that the ending of the previous book in the Entropy series left me with, I thought this book would be filled with more angst, but it was still a very comforting read.
Breaking Patterns is an enjoyable story with very likeable characters, diversity and healthy relationships. When I was having a chaotic or stressful day, I would read this book and feel ten times better. Anyhow, when I was having a great day, I didn't feel the need to read it. I don't know if, maybe, the Entropy series is too comforting to make me want to continue reading it. There are very few problems, and even when there was one, I knew it would be solved and everyone would be okay. I would probably like for the characters to run into more issues, or maybe just have more impactful and damaging consequences to one sole problem, so maybe that way the characters' growth would be bigger and my attachment to them, as a reader, would be stronger.
I appreciate the fact that the author prioritizes dialogue and tries to describe and explain things trough it to make the writing more efficient. Nonetheless, there were instances where that just made the dialogue sound unnatural. Speaking of the dialogue, the vocabulary of the characters is too similar. They use words that are not very common to hear on the daily, which is why it's even more odd to see them used with many characters.
I really liked the illustrations and I loved the details in the clothes, face features and other textures. Although, I would've liked it if parts of the background were also detailed, because sometimes it seemed inconsistent to look at very detailed characters against mostly simple backgrounds.
All in all, you can count on Breaking Patterns to offer its pages to comfort you when you're having a rough day.