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Blau ist eine warme Farbe: Das preisgekrönte Werk um ein Coming-Out by Jul Maroh

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indeedithappens's review against another edition

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emotional sad medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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midnightmarauder's review against another edition

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dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Blue is the Warmest Color follows the story of Emma and Clementine, two women living in France who start a relationship with one another that lasts from the late 90s to the late 2000s. The story is told through a series of diary entries made by Clementine before her death.

Throughout the book, Clementine writes about her experiences in life from the ages of 17 to 30. Early on, she talks about her struggle to come to terms with her sexuality. She nearly sleeps with a guy that expresses interest in her at her school, and wonders why she can't reciprocate the feelings that he has for her. It isn't until she meets Emma that she realizes that she is more interested in the same sex.

Emma and Clementine have a whirlwind of a relationship that could be toxic at times. For starters, although Emma likes Clementine and expresses attraction to her, she simultaneously pushes her away and says that Clementine doesn't really like her and that she's simply having fun with her until she meets a guy that she'll leave her for. Which, ends up being

somewhat true towards the end, as the end of her and Clementine's relationship is ended due to Clementine sleeping with a male colleague.

Not to mention, Emma is also

cheating on her girlfriend, Sabine, with Clementine.

Clementine is also troublesome, with her main issue being her inability to accept her sexuality and

proving Emma's point by sleeping with her male coworker.

I watched the film before seeing this book at work and deciding to check it out. Quite frankly, this graphic novel is immensely better than the film. Although the original story is much sadder than the novel, the writing is better, it isn't overly focused on Emma and Clementine's sex lives, and it portrays the love the women have for one another ten times better than the film ever did.

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cheye13's review against another edition

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sad slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.0

Honestly, I didn't expect to like this, but I felt like it was one of the queer staples of my generation that I had to experience. Learning it was originally French (I thought it was Dutch for some reason) made everything make sense.

In summary, it's too simple to be such a shared story. There's nothing unique or moving in this story that separates it not just from other queer stories, but from real life. It was both simpler and sadder than I had expected.

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eavery's review against another edition

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emotional sad fast-paced

Diverse cast of characters? Yes

2.0

Really??? She dies from an orgasm from her lesbian lover? It would’ve been better if she was hit by a car crossing the street to be reunited with her lover.

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maseface's review against another edition

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sad fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

0.75

This book filled me with rage and bile. I personally don't like to DNF books because I feel like I waste all the time I spent reading them if I don't finish them. So I had to put up with this terrible book.

I'd heard several criticism's of the movie adapted from this book and I found out one of the issues is present in the source material. This book presents a glamorized relationship between a minor and an adult. When Emma and Clementine's relationship starts Emma is in her senior year of art school and Clementine is 16. As someone's who's a junior in college the idea of dating a 16 year old grosses me out. I don't know much about France and I'm sorry if this is a generalization but I know this is an issue in France not just in queer relationships but also straight ones. My evidence to back up that assertion is the current first lady Brigitte Macron who's married to her former high school student. But I'm not excusing it as it's very irresponsible for Maroh to do this and I really think Emma could've been aged down.

Also Emma is just the worst aside from dating a minor. She's cheating on her girlfriend with a minor and is worried that Clementine is going to leave for a man. Emma feels kinda biphobic and I think the author might be a little do as Clementine does cheat on Emma with a man despite showing no previous interest in men (I'm spoiling this because I really hate this book and don't think you should read it).

But the think that I hate most about this book was how melodramatic and sappy it was. I'm not against Graphic Novels being serious or even sad. The last two graphic novels I read were Fun Home and Persepolis which were autobiographies also dealing with serious subjects and they can be quite sad at points. I gave both of them 5 stars. But the drama in this was hiked up to an unrealistic degree. And the romance was unbearably sappy. At first I thought maybe I was too cynical to enjoy romance but that isn't the case as out of the 5 romance books I've read since starting this account 3 of them I gave 5 stars. This just takes the sappiness up to a frankly nauseous level.

Also Emma and Clementine's relationship is the definition of co-dependent.

I honestly hate this book so much. The only nice things I can say about it was the art was sometimes nice and it was interesting to get a non-American LGBT perspective. But there are so many better books to get either of those things. Please don't read this book.

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elenaysuslibros's review against another edition

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emotional sad fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

A pesar de que esta novela tiene muchos clichés, y aunque sabía que el final iba a ser trágico, me llegó mucho y me dejó sensible.
Ninguna de las dos protagonistas terminó por caerme bien, siento que no tenían una buena relación ni tenían buena comunicación. Y también siento que hubo problemas en cómo se contaba la historia, hubo saltos de tiempo importantes y se perdió la oportunidad de detallar cómo fue la relación de Emma y de Clementine.

Me encantó el uso de los colores, y también ver cómo Clementine fue descubriendo su sexualidad. Sin embargo, sí que me decepcionó un poco cómo se mostró la bisexualidad en la novela.

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