A review by milkshakevoid
Monstress, Vol. 1: Awakening by Marjorie Liu
4.0
Pros:
The art style is gorgeous. I'd love to have an art book with just the drawings and character designs etc.
The child characters were cute and believable.
The cats and cat humor were great.
Cons:
Lots of info dumps.
Too many characters who look alike or similar and not enough distinction as to which was which angry black haired beautiful chick.
Because so much of the mc's past is a mystery, there's not enough momentum to keep me going.
3.5
If this was a full bind up of the whole series, I probably would keep reading. The art is compelling enough for me to want more. But I won't go out of my way to buy the next book for the story because I didn't fall for any of the characters enough to care.
It's not a bad read by any means, but I have too many things on my TBR competing with this to throw another ten dollars and hour + of my time on something I'm not in love with.
:/ I will pick up other volumes if I see them on discount but I'm not going out of my way to follow through with this series, which kinda sucks because I really wanted another boss graphic novel series to sink my teeth into.
Merged review:
Pros:
The art style is gorgeous. I'd love to have an art book with just the drawings and character designs etc.
The child characters were cute and believable.
The cats and cat humor were great.
Cons:
Lots of info dumps.
Too many characters who look alike or similar and not enough distinction as to which was which angry black haired beautiful chick.
Because so much of the mc's past is a mystery, there's not enough momentum to keep me going.
3.5
If this was a full bind up of the whole series, I probably would keep reading. The art is compelling enough for me to want more. But I won't go out of my way to buy the next book for the story because I didn't fall for any of the characters enough to care.
It's not a bad read by any means, but I have too many things on my TBR competing with this to throw another ten dollars and hour + of my time on something I'm not in love with.
:/ I will pick up other volumes if I see them on discount but I'm not going out of my way to follow through with this series, which kinda sucks because I really wanted another boss graphic novel series to sink my teeth into.
The art style is gorgeous. I'd love to have an art book with just the drawings and character designs etc.
The child characters were cute and believable.
The cats and cat humor were great.
Cons:
Lots of info dumps.
Too many characters who look alike or similar and not enough distinction as to which was which angry black haired beautiful chick.
Because so much of the mc's past is a mystery, there's not enough momentum to keep me going.
3.5
If this was a full bind up of the whole series, I probably would keep reading. The art is compelling enough for me to want more. But I won't go out of my way to buy the next book for the story because I didn't fall for any of the characters enough to care.
It's not a bad read by any means, but I have too many things on my TBR competing with this to throw another ten dollars and hour + of my time on something I'm not in love with.
:/ I will pick up other volumes if I see them on discount but I'm not going out of my way to follow through with this series, which kinda sucks because I really wanted another boss graphic novel series to sink my teeth into.
Merged review:
Pros:
The art style is gorgeous. I'd love to have an art book with just the drawings and character designs etc.
The child characters were cute and believable.
The cats and cat humor were great.
Cons:
Lots of info dumps.
Too many characters who look alike or similar and not enough distinction as to which was which angry black haired beautiful chick.
Because so much of the mc's past is a mystery, there's not enough momentum to keep me going.
3.5
If this was a full bind up of the whole series, I probably would keep reading. The art is compelling enough for me to want more. But I won't go out of my way to buy the next book for the story because I didn't fall for any of the characters enough to care.
It's not a bad read by any means, but I have too many things on my TBR competing with this to throw another ten dollars and hour + of my time on something I'm not in love with.
:/ I will pick up other volumes if I see them on discount but I'm not going out of my way to follow through with this series, which kinda sucks because I really wanted another boss graphic novel series to sink my teeth into.