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A review by melissamilazzo
Tricked by Alex Robinson
5.0
Alex Robinson has, hands down, won my personal "best new author" award for this year. No, he's not a new author and no, there's no prize, but hey, he deserves it!
With Box Office Poison, Robinson created characters that were full and believable. I wanted to be friends with those characters, but was happy to have eavesdropped on their lives for a little bit. In Tricked, Robinson shows that he can master plot as well as character. This whole book is so tight, each panel leading up to a climax that feels both predestined and yet is still shocking. There isn't a throw away line or image in the entire book. The last few pages of the book (don't want to give it away) were absolutely beautiful in their layout. I ended up staring at them for about half an hour, thinking back on all the characters and their connections. It's not many books that drive me to reflect on them that long BEFORE I'm finished reading the book.
With Box Office Poison, Robinson created characters that were full and believable. I wanted to be friends with those characters, but was happy to have eavesdropped on their lives for a little bit. In Tricked, Robinson shows that he can master plot as well as character. This whole book is so tight, each panel leading up to a climax that feels both predestined and yet is still shocking. There isn't a throw away line or image in the entire book. The last few pages of the book (don't want to give it away) were absolutely beautiful in their layout. I ended up staring at them for about half an hour, thinking back on all the characters and their connections. It's not many books that drive me to reflect on them that long BEFORE I'm finished reading the book.