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Life Is Strange: Steph's Story

By: Rosiee Thor
Narrated by: Katy Bentz
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About this listen

The official origin story of LiS fan-favourite Steph Gingrich featuring LGBTQ+ romance, inevitable heartbreak, and the punk-rock beginnings of Drugstore Makeup.

Setting the stage for her appearance in Life Is Strange: True Colors, this official Steph Gingrich novel sheds light on the Drugstore Makeup years and the story of how Steph crash-landed in Haven Springs, Colorado.

Steph Gingrich has finally run out of couches to surf. Now she’s back at her dad’s place in Seattle to figure out what she wants to do with the rest of her life.

When running an RPG session for her local gamer café, Steph meets Izzie. Izzie is electric: a punk, a girl who likes girls, and a hella good guitarist. Steph finds the punk life is exactly what she needs, she loves the music, the art and the fashion, but most of all she likes the girl. Entranced, she offers to drum for Izzie, forming the band Drugstore Makeup.

A hit in more ways than one, Drugstore Makeup compete in a battle of the bands before deciding to tour the offbeat punk venues of America. But Steph and Izzie soon find themselves on different wavelengths, unable to communicate, and wanting different things.

©2015 - 2023 Square Enix Ltd. (P)2023 Blackstone Publishing LGBTQ+ Literature & Fiction Movie, TV & Video Game Tie-ins Romance Heartfelt

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Katy Bentz gives a wonderful performance of the character she gave life too in the games. An absolute must for Life Is Strange fans and Steph fans in particular.

A must for all LiS fans

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If you like Life is Strange True Colours, you need to listen to this asap. It's an incredible character study of fan favourite character (me, I'm the fan) Steph. It embraces the ethos of the Life is Strange saga, in the way the creatives who made it intended, rather than the toxic publishing based issues recently brought to light by IGN.

However, it is a difficult listen in places. Not because it's bad, but because it's so well written, so achingly true to life, and relatable, that when sad things happen in the story, it's painful. And sad things do happen. There's a tragic feeling that permeates the story. Due to its position as a True Colours prequel, we know that certain things within the story must come to an end, in order for Steph to wind up where she is at the start of the game.

Your mileage on prequels may vary, but for this one, I would say (cliché as it is) that the journey Steph goes on is much more important than the destination. Also, it's ready by Katey Bentz, so go listen to it now!

Incredible companion piece

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A really funny and beautiful story detailing how Steph arrived in Haven Springs. I was sobbing towards the end 😭

Feels like more Life is Strange

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nice to have a great back story for Steph and what leads her to be in the story of life is strange true colours

nice for the back story

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admittedly Steph isn't one of the most compelling characters in LIS. I feel like from the games she's just known for being the gay side character who likes D&D. I know LIS is a franchise known for its queerness but I felt like we were reminded of it every few minutes. I'm queer myself but I felt Steph was a walking gay caricature, that kept saying the equivalent of "by the way, I'm lesbian and being lesbian is very good." She would be more compelling if she had a bit more nuance.
just wish there were novels about the more interesting central characters like Sean and Daniel, Chloe and Max, and Kate.

Did you know Steph is lesbian?

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