A review by knobbyknees
Threadbare: Clothes, Sex, and Trafficking by The Ladydrawers, Anne Elizabeth Moore
4.0
(3.5 stars) This book is part of an important discussion that we should be having, but the execution was kind of lacking. I'm not altogether ignorant of the effects of fast fashion and sex trafficking, but I'm also kind of a newb about all this, and the information presented in the graphic novel format was a little murky to understand. I really liked the idea of these topics shown in comic panels, but each chapter (four in all) only touched on the surface of everything and didn't really give me enough information about each theme. Also, the book is fairly small (like 5x7"), and I feel like the comics were drawn for an 8.5x11" page, because the text in some panels were so small I felt that I needed a magnifying glass.
That said, I gleaned some information from this book that can lead me to investigate more. Each chapter has endnotes with sources that can be a good way to learn more about individual topics.
As far as the book goes, it was so broad and over-ambitious. I think it would've been better if the author(s) focused really hard on one specific topic and made a book, rather than a single chapter, about each part she wanted to discuss. I would've liked more detail and depth.
That said, I gleaned some information from this book that can lead me to investigate more. Each chapter has endnotes with sources that can be a good way to learn more about individual topics.
As far as the book goes, it was so broad and over-ambitious. I think it would've been better if the author(s) focused really hard on one specific topic and made a book, rather than a single chapter, about each part she wanted to discuss. I would've liked more detail and depth.