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e_etcetera's review against another edition
4.0
Ravie d'avoir pu en apprendre un peu plus sur ce groupement. Et surtout ça fait un bien fou de voir un portrait de féministe positif !
sabrinaslivingliterature's review
4.0
Firstly thank you to Netgalley for the free ebook. 4/5 stars, I loved this graphic novel and didn't know much about the Femen movement in Ukraine or Paris. The story starts with Appoline in a job where she is looked down on and with an overbearing mother and a sister who thinks she has it all sorted out. This is about her journey realising she doesn't want to deal with the everyday sexism that she is experiencing and joins the Femen group despite backlash from friends and family trying to be "helpful". The artwork is fantastic, bright and colourful and really shows this group in a positive light despite some people labelling them "Feminazis". This book doesn't claim to be a true story but uses the real experiences of the women from that group to tell a story that couldn't be made more gripping by lies.
sabrinaslivingliterature's review against another edition
4.0
Firstly thank you to Netgalley for the free ebook. 4/5 stars, I loved this graphic novel and didn’t know much about the Femen movement in Ukraine or Paris. The story starts with Appoline in a job where she is looked down on and with an overbearing mother and a sister who thinks she has it all sorted out. This is about her journey realising she doesn’t want to deal with the everyday sexism that she is experiencing and joins the Femen group despite backlash from friends and family trying to be “helpful”. The artwork is fantastic, bright and colourful and really shows this group in a positive light despite some people labelling them “Feminazis”. This book doesn’t claim to be a true story but uses the real experiences of the women from that group to tell a story that couldn’t be made more gripping by lies.
karthikm_86's review
4.0
a thought-provoking work! Curious to see this movement is now based in France - one of the last remaining lights in the "liberal west" and home of Voltaire, but that the message is stilted by the medium. Hope these guys go to alabama soon.
rainbowbookworm's review
3.0
Not exactly what I expected when I picked this ARC up from NetGalley, but I enjoyed this fictionalized account of the struggles one young woman faces as she decides to stand up for what she believes in by joining the Femen movement and their protests.
jmanchester0's review
4.0
This comic “doesn’t strictly reflect reality…but everything in these pages is true.”
I’ve never heard of the Femen activists before I read this comic. (Though I just heard them referenced on TV the night after I heard of them!)
Bold and brave, they are protesting and changing things in their own way.
Interesting and worth a read.
Thanks to NetGalley and Europe Comics for a copy in return for an honest review.
I’ve never heard of the Femen activists before I read this comic. (Though I just heard them referenced on TV the night after I heard of them!)
Bold and brave, they are protesting and changing things in their own way.
Interesting and worth a read.
Thanks to NetGalley and Europe Comics for a copy in return for an honest review.
charlottejones952's review
3.0
*Disclaimer: I received this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
This graphic novel introduced me to the Femen, an activist group fighting against the patriarchy which I had never previously heard of.
I liked the narrative of this book. I've seen other reviews complain that the book doesn't actually show any of the protests but this didn't bother me. I liked how the story showed how becoming an activist can effect someone's life, in both positive and negative ways.
Having said that, I did have some issues with the book. Firstly I found that there was too much dialogue on some pages and it made the dialogue a little confused. Also, and this is something you can see on the cover, it annoyed me that all of the women's body types were exactly the same. I almost feel that this went against the message of the story itself. Overall, I'm glad I read this but I would have liked to see a little more diversity in the characters.
This graphic novel introduced me to the Femen, an activist group fighting against the patriarchy which I had never previously heard of.
I liked the narrative of this book. I've seen other reviews complain that the book doesn't actually show any of the protests but this didn't bother me. I liked how the story showed how becoming an activist can effect someone's life, in both positive and negative ways.
Having said that, I did have some issues with the book. Firstly I found that there was too much dialogue on some pages and it made the dialogue a little confused. Also, and this is something you can see on the cover, it annoyed me that all of the women's body types were exactly the same. I almost feel that this went against the message of the story itself. Overall, I'm glad I read this but I would have liked to see a little more diversity in the characters.
cravingpages's review
5.0
I received a free digital copy of this graphic novel from Netgally in exchange for my honest review.
Feminism is a subject that I find very interesting. Over the last couple of years I’ve read several books with feminist themes, but never a graphic novel.
The book is about FEMEN, a group of activists fighting for their believes in a non-violent way. It is a work of fiction based on actual events, but the characters are al.
We meet a young woman who is struggling with the problems a beautiful young woman might experience in this day and age. This was very heartwrenching and realistically portrait. It’s easy to get sucked into the story and feel the main characters pain.
I don’t know how realistic the “behind-the-scenes” look at activism is because I have never been a part of anything like that, but still this gave me a lot of feelings and made me think about modern day issues.
The ending might be a bit to sappy for some, but I loved it for it made the main characters even more of an inspiration in my book.
Feminism is a subject that I find very interesting. Over the last couple of years I’ve read several books with feminist themes, but never a graphic novel.
The book is about FEMEN, a group of activists fighting for their believes in a non-violent way. It is a work of fiction based on actual events, but the characters are al.
We meet a young woman who is struggling with the problems a beautiful young woman might experience in this day and age. This was very heartwrenching and realistically portrait. It’s easy to get sucked into the story and feel the main characters pain.
I don’t know how realistic the “behind-the-scenes” look at activism is because I have never been a part of anything like that, but still this gave me a lot of feelings and made me think about modern day issues.
The ending might be a bit to sappy for some, but I loved it for it made the main characters even more of an inspiration in my book.
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