Reviews tagging 'Death'

Blue Is the Warmest Color by Jul Maroh

27 reviews

teslis's review against another edition

emotional relaxing sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

This is a comic I have wanted to read for so long and I found it at the library today so I took it home and read it. 
I’m not sure, I didn’t like it as much as I thought I would, it was okay. I think I was not in the right mood for this book but I have read it. 
I really liked the character Valentine!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Death, Sexual content, Homophobia, Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, and Lesbophobia

lavender_evie's review against another edition

0.75

Too sad. Messy. Urg.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Pedophilia, Hate crime, Grief, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Mental illness, Abandonment, Drug use, Death, Biphobia, Lesbophobia, Homophobia, Toxic relationship, and Alcohol

nanana_naaa's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Death

vezreads's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia and Adult/minor relationship

Moderate: Drug use, Death, and Grief

bookedandbusy's review

emotional sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

This was an incredible novel. It showed the struggles of trying to grow up in a world telling you who you love is wrong. I really liked the characters and characters the progression of the relationships and friendships. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Homophobia, and Death

Moderate: Medical content and Drug use

Minor: Vomit

indeedithappens's review against another edition

emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Biphobia, Lesbophobia, Medical content, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Abandonment, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Death, Stalking, Classism, Grief, Infidelity, Drug abuse, Alcohol, Bullying, Homophobia, Child death, and Drug use

midnightmarauder's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Blue is the Warmest Color follows the story of Emma and Clementine, two women living in France who start a relationship with one another that lasts from the late 90s to the late 2000s. The story is told through a series of diary entries made by Clementine before her death. 

Throughout the book, Clementine writes about her experiences in life from the ages of 17 to 30. Early on, she talks about her struggle to come to terms with her sexuality. She nearly sleeps with a guy that expresses interest in her at her school, and wonders why she can't reciprocate the feelings that he has for her. It isn't until she meets Emma that she realizes that she is more interested in the same sex. 

Emma and Clementine have a whirlwind of a relationship that could be toxic at times. For starters, although Emma likes Clementine and expresses attraction to her, she simultaneously pushes her away and says that Clementine doesn't really like her and that she's simply having fun with her until she meets a guy that she'll leave her for. Which, ends up being

somewhat true towards the end, as the end of her and Clementine's relationship is ended due to Clementine sleeping with a male colleague.

Not to mention, Emma is also

cheating on her girlfriend, Sabine, with Clementine.

Clementine is also troublesome, with her main issue being her inability to accept her sexuality and

proving Emma's point by sleeping with her male coworker.

I watched the film before seeing this book at work and deciding to check it out. Quite frankly, this graphic novel is immensely better than the film. Although the original story is much sadder than the novel, the writing is better, it isn't overly focused on Emma and Clementine's sex lives, and it portrays the love the women have for one another ten times better than the film ever did. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Abandonment, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Death, and Grief

Moderate: Addiction, Drug use, and Drug abuse

Minor: Toxic relationship

mesposito827's review against another edition

dark sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse and Death

Minor: Toxic relationship

cheye13's review against another edition

sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.0

Honestly, I didn't expect to like this, but I felt like it was one of the queer staples of my generation that I had to experience. Learning it was originally French (I thought it was Dutch for some reason) made everything make sense.

In summary, it's too simple to be such a shared story. There's nothing unique or moving in this story that separates it not just from other queer stories, but from real life. It was both simpler and sadder than I had expected.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Infidelity, Death, and Grief

michela_ognibeni's review against another edition

emotional sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death