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A review by spenkevich
The Night Eaters, Book 2: Her Little Reapers by Marjorie Liu
4.0
All the demon-eating family drama is back in the second installment of Marjorie M. Liu’s delightfully disturbing The Night Eaters. Picking up from where we left off in She Eats the Night, which immediately hooked me and I’ve been impatiently waiting for this one, we find Milly and Billy trying to understand and cope with their newly discovered powers and family legacy with little to no help from their parents. The family dysfunctions are a blast with the cantankerous mom, the comic relief of the siblings, and everyone seems to be always screaming. RELATABLE. And then there are the parts I’m glad aren’t relatable…like the creepy dolls, the mythical monsters showing up everywhere and now the family seems to have a cult closing in on them. Her Little Reapers is a wild ride that blends the humor with the horror, adds in a heaping spoonful of gorgeously-illustrated gratuitous violence and already has me eager for the next volume.
Just a normal day in this family
Sana Takeda is an artistic gem and I love the full color, full terror artwork that brings this series to life. Liu has a great knack for humor and pacing that keeps the story flowing and I rather like how the series uses the Covid era of late 2020 as the setting. There’s a few good gags about that and other elements of society, sort of like some pretty wild and violent things happening right out in the open and nobody paying it any attention.
Her Little Reapers is a blast and I really enjoyed the infusion of Asian mythology and all the different monsters that show up throughout this volume. But that doll is forever terrifying. And now you too have to see it:
Can’t wait for the next volume.
4/5
Just a normal day in this family
Sana Takeda is an artistic gem and I love the full color, full terror artwork that brings this series to life. Liu has a great knack for humor and pacing that keeps the story flowing and I rather like how the series uses the Covid era of late 2020 as the setting. There’s a few good gags about that and other elements of society, sort of like some pretty wild and violent things happening right out in the open and nobody paying it any attention.
Her Little Reapers is a blast and I really enjoyed the infusion of Asian mythology and all the different monsters that show up throughout this volume. But that doll is forever terrifying. And now you too have to see it:
Can’t wait for the next volume.
4/5