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Look Again by Elizabeth A. Trembley
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.