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whatchareadingheather's review
adventurous
lighthearted
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A
3.0
Very Suckerpunch with pretty illustrations. Kind of wish there was one more volume for a longer story, but this at least wraps up the story nicely.
cactusrae's review
adventurous
hopeful
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
jassmine's review
2.0
Alright, this gets two stars, because the art was very pretty and the heroine was hot while almost realistic, but otherwise... this was even worse than the first volume. I honestly don't even know what was happening all the time. (Most of this review is the same as that of the first volume.)
1. A lot of people seem to be upset about Coralina's various state of undress. Not me. I have a thing for historical clothing and while this wasn't exactly accurate (corsets on bare skin! ouch...) it was better than most, especially for erotica and what can I say, I quite enjoyed that.
2. Visually-wise this was mostly win. The art was pretty, and Coralina was beautiful, but the men... why?
You see how this is uncomfortable, right?
3. In the whole story we don't get one pleasant male character. Or a good looking one. Why? The main "hero" is a child, which made me very uncomfortable, but we'll get to that later. Then we get one stalker and then the characters in dreams that just flat out try to rape our heroine, like... am I supposed to be turned on? I'm really sorry the author didn't consider making Eckhart (or what was his name...) a pleasant character and romantic interest to balance out the weirdness of the plot. (And also giving us some actually sexy content...)
4. I keep mentioning how pretty Coralina is... well, that's because she's anything else - she isn't kind, she isn't particularly smart, but you know, she likes to go around half naked, so... I forgive her. (Not really...) However, she got a twist here I wasn't quite expecting
5. Fine, now to the plot. I don't really remember what happens in the second volume, I was quite over it. We got the strange village episode, more swimming and then the last dreaming comes. It's pretty wild, but not in the good way. Il spoil it to you, so you can just go and look at some of the pictures if you are so inclined, of forget about this altogether, so Overall, it's kind of disturbing, a lot of comments say it's teenage wet dream, but really? Well, I guess the fact that she is a governess applies here, but how old could he be... I guess if you identify with the kid, it gets kind of sexy, but for understandable reasons I couldn't really do that - especially because it's told from Coralina's POV (maybe that's the main fault here...).
To sum it up, this was all teasing and nothing was actually delivered. There is a lot of abusive sexual behavior and the whole time you have a feeling that a kid is somehow mixed in all of this so... Some pictures are pretty sexy though - when you take them out of context...
1. A lot of people seem to be upset about Coralina's various state of undress. Not me. I have a thing for historical clothing and while this wasn't exactly accurate (corsets on bare skin! ouch...) it was better than most, especially for erotica and what can I say, I quite enjoyed that.
2. Visually-wise this was mostly win. The art was pretty, and Coralina was beautiful, but the men... why?
You see how this is uncomfortable, right?
3. In the whole story we don't get one pleasant male character. Or a good looking one. Why? The main "hero" is a child, which made me very uncomfortable, but we'll get to that later. Then we get one stalker and then the characters in dreams that just flat out try to rape our heroine, like... am I supposed to be turned on? I'm really sorry the author didn't consider making Eckhart (or what was his name...) a pleasant character and romantic interest to balance out the weirdness of the plot. (And also giving us some actually sexy content...)
4. I keep mentioning how pretty Coralina is... well, that's because she's anything else - she isn't kind, she isn't particularly smart, but you know, she likes to go around half naked, so... I forgive her. (Not really...) However, she got a twist here I wasn't quite expecting
Spoiler
We learn that the reason why she came "here" is that she is looking for her lost sister. I thought that was an interesting twist and I quite liked it, but it was very underdeveloped.5. Fine, now to the plot. I don't really remember what happens in the second volume, I was quite over it. We got the strange village episode, more swimming and then the last dreaming comes. It's pretty wild, but not in the good way. Il spoil it to you, so you can just go and look at some of the pictures if you are so inclined, of forget about this altogether, so
Spoiler
the thing is that Vernére or what was his name, lost his parents very young and he feels the need to replace them, especially his father. So, he decided he'll be all grown up from now on, that's while he spends most of his time with inventing. And that's why he's romancing his governesses in his dreams... yeah. So, he has this whole room of sleeping young ladies, why they are still asleep is uncertain, but somewhat he trapped them in the dream-scape. Coraline finds his childlike-self in a dream and rescues everyone. The end! Like what the f*ck was this?To sum it up, this was all teasing and nothing was actually delivered. There is a lot of abusive sexual behavior and the whole time you have a feeling that a kid is somehow mixed in all of this so... Some pictures are pretty sexy though - when you take them out of context...
nwhyte's review
3.0
https://nwhyte.livejournal.com/3669597.html
I saw this recommended somewhere: two albums written by French author Filippi, best known for his writing for young adults, and illustrated by Dodson, better known for his Marvel and DC work on superheroes.
I'm not sure that I'd repeat the recommendation. Our heroine, Coraline, takes a job as governess to a teenage boy who invents lots of machines in his spare time. At night she has strange dreams which always seem to end with her clothes falling off. The end of the second volume reveals What Is Really Going On, and I have to say that it makes no sense at all in terms of what we have been told of the story. Also notable that the titles of the volumes are the wrong way around - vol 1's title is "Celia", but she is the sister of Coraline, the main character, and not otherwise mentioned until halfway through vol 2. The art is lush and gorgeous, but basically it's two short books about boobs.
I saw this recommended somewhere: two albums written by French author Filippi, best known for his writing for young adults, and illustrated by Dodson, better known for his Marvel and DC work on superheroes.
I'm not sure that I'd repeat the recommendation. Our heroine, Coraline, takes a job as governess to a teenage boy who invents lots of machines in his spare time. At night she has strange dreams which always seem to end with her clothes falling off. The end of the second volume reveals What Is Really Going On, and I have to say that it makes no sense at all in terms of what we have been told of the story. Also notable that the titles of the volumes are the wrong way around - vol 1's title is "Celia", but she is the sister of Coraline, the main character, and not otherwise mentioned until halfway through vol 2. The art is lush and gorgeous, but basically it's two short books about boobs.
lucie_the_reader's review
2.0
Did the author make this graphic novel so he could just draw ladies' boobs? The art is nice but it really just feels like a teenage boy's wet dream with so many boobs.
svarnyp's review
2.0
Most of all I like the art style. The erotica aspect is reasonably handled but the story unfolds really slowly and basically just presents a pretext to draw women in different sexy outfits.
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