A review by audjmo91
Flutter, Volume One: Hell Can Wait by Jennie Wood
3.0
The premise I bought this on, that a girl would change into a boy to get a girl, sounds like something I am wholly interested in. Perhaps I've read too many fantasy or dystopian tales, but I was willing to buy at face value that she had these powers and was ready to get into a great teen drama about identity. Instead, I learned early on that just as important to this story was the source of these powers and the military conspiracy and/or science poachers (?) who are hunting Lily and her dad and possibly her mom (?) who are hiding from spies and killing people willy-nilly and I spent some time wondering when I might go back to the high school for more teen drama.
Maybe it's me, but the part of the story spawning the above run-on sentence wasn't well explained, and since I think the artist may suffer from what I've heard called, "twelve face syndrome," I'm having trouble telling people apart (especially if they keep changing faces, or worse, barely changing faces and then just telling me it's a different character). I'm willing to buy the next volume to see how it goes, but I'd like to come out of it less confused and more satisfaction on the teen drama front (which felt a little shafted while trying to get me up to speed on the secret science).
Maybe it's me, but the part of the story spawning the above run-on sentence wasn't well explained, and since I think the artist may suffer from what I've heard called, "twelve face syndrome," I'm having trouble telling people apart (especially if they keep changing faces, or worse, barely changing faces and then just telling me it's a different character). I'm willing to buy the next volume to see how it goes, but I'd like to come out of it less confused and more satisfaction on the teen drama front (which felt a little shafted while trying to get me up to speed on the secret science).