What if an anxiety medicine brings out a whole new you? What would you do? A wonderful new story for Harley Quinn!

Harley Quinn is one of my favourite DC characters and I love how she went from just a baddie to get more and more different backstories. I enjoy each and every one of them that I read and this one is not an exception!

In this one we meet Harleen, a girl who has a criminal family (seriously that dad is so conflicting as he is so kind but we know he is up to some shady shit), is currently in house arrest because her not-so-boyfriend murdered people (and said he did it for her but as we find out all she did was tell him they bullied her) and so she misses her school, her friends, and mostly her gymnastics. We see her struggle with things, especially with how people treat her even though she did nothing wrong, she just wants to get back to gymnastics, and escape everything. I rooted for her and was curious to see how Harley would appear!

Well, a trip to a pharmaceutical facility with her (on/off) girlfriend Pam (aka Poison Ivy) leads to that. Because apparently even if it is shady, these peeps got the cure for Harleen’s anxiety (which rears its head in the worst moments and makes her feel like not herself). However we see that the stuff has some side effects. Namely memory loss, strange lapse of time, and more… but what we as the reader see is that at these moments Harleen is sleeping… Harley is there. Ready to kick some ass. Because where Harleen is shy, introvert, and anxious, Harley is a party and ready to kick some ass. She is the extrovert to Harleen. She is literally everything that Harleen is not. And she has a streak of violence in her. It was interesting to see how at first it is mostly two separate entities and that Harleen struggles with all the effects and Harley just has a good time, but as time continued we saw that they started working together. Harley leaving notes and tried to help out to the point that they were able to summon her ala Bloody Mary style (which at first made me laugh) and Harleen even getting some memories of when Harley taking over (though she still keeps many secrets). I really enjoyed both Harleen and Harley and I just adored how the illustrator showed us clearly who was who. With darker text bubbles, but also a change in eye colour. And of course, we can all see the change just by the vast difference between the two. Even Pam sees it. Though it takes her a while to figure out why Harleen is like this and what Harley is.

Next to all that we also meet a guy who is clearly meant to be a version of the Joker. We see Pam grow into her powers and learn more about the pharmaceutical facility, see some crime happen, read more about Pam and her parents (and how her dad is a scumbag and needs to be get his just dues), and there is so much more. I had a lot of fun reading this one and I flew right through it.

The art, well, it is by one of my favourite illustrators, so that was just perfection! Fantastic to see Harleen/Harley in this style.

Oh, and I loved the little parts between the chapters featuring snippets from Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde! Which is just perfection given the story/the characters.

I would HIGHLY recommend this one to everyone! This was just so good!