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yayarose's review
dark
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
3.5
Great illustrations and example of how trauma can impact our memory. She was very brave in telling her story as well as the different variations it changed to over the years. I appreciate her honesty and had a great time reading this novel!
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Suicide, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Hate crime and Sexual harassment
Minor: Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, and Murder
ashleyholstrom's review
4.0
While taking her dogs for a walk one morning, Elizabeth found a dead body in the woods. It shocked her to her core and she’s carried that terror with her ever since, though it’s changed shape over the decades. Look Again is a raw, emotional look at how trauma affects memory and storytelling. The way this story is presented, with six variations of how the author has told it over the years, from straight-forward to convoluted, is so fascinating.
✨ From Graphic Memoirs that Tackle Mental Illness at Crooked Reads.
✨ From Graphic Memoirs that Tackle Mental Illness at Crooked Reads.
andromedafalls's review
dark
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
Custom Rating: Staring Trauma in the Face/5
jess_mango's review
4.0
Somewhere between 3.5 and 4 for this one.
Look Again is a graphic memoir about trauma. The author experiences a traumatic event when she unexpectedly comes across a dead body while walking with her dogs in 1996. In this book, she walks us through how her brain processed this event over time, slowly unburying more and more of the event's details.
Look Again is a graphic memoir about trauma. The author experiences a traumatic event when she unexpectedly comes across a dead body while walking with her dogs in 1996. In this book, she walks us through how her brain processed this event over time, slowly unburying more and more of the event's details.
barnesbookshelf's review
5.0
I thought the story would just be about finding the body in the woods, but I'm glad it wasn't (that would have been a very short book indeed.) Instead, it was a fascinating journey about how stories of events,
especially events that caused trauma, change and grow over time as the people who experienced them change, grow, and learn more about themselves. The last section of the book also felt like a class on how to tell a traumatic story through the medium of comics/graphic novels, in a good way. It made me want to pick up a pen and start drawing.
The art is not the most beautiful, but it doesn't need to be. It tells the story and conveys what needs to be conveyed. I did like that the style seems to become cleaner and more set as the story it's portraying becomes clearer to Trembley.
Overall, I find it a fantastic book about the changing nature of life stories.
especially events that caused trauma, change and grow over time as the people who experienced them change, grow, and learn more about themselves. The last section of the book also felt like a class on how to tell a traumatic story through the medium of comics/graphic novels, in a good way. It made me want to pick up a pen and start drawing.
The art is not the most beautiful, but it doesn't need to be. It tells the story and conveys what needs to be conveyed. I did like that the style seems to become cleaner and more set as the story it's portraying becomes clearer to Trembley.
Overall, I find it a fantastic book about the changing nature of life stories.