Reviews - Милий морок

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Милий морок

Fabien Vehlmann

3.75 AVERAGE

thebetterstory's review against another edition

3.25

dark sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I don't really know what to make of this one. It succeeds at being cruel and strange and disturbing, which is perhaps all you should ask from a horror story. The characters are painted as broadly and with as little depth as you'd expect from a fairy tale, and you hardly have time to feel anything about them before they're killed off. The art, however, is lovely.

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verlkonig's review against another edition

4.0

Pretty dark, pretty grim, pretty disturbing, but not as overwhelmingly horrible as I was expecting. The kicker is how sudden and casual the violence is.

mirzapan's review against another edition

2.0

challenging dark tense

snowbenton's review against another edition

2.0

The art was excellent and the horror was, well, horrific. Unfortunately there was no exposition, no plot, and an ending that was more "oh dear" than satisfactory.

ce_read's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense 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

Listen, not all books have or are meant to have a "plot." Just enjoy it for what it is.

I appreciated that I didn't feel like I was being forced to come to any particular conclusions about right and wrong, kind of like... how the natural world is sometimes just brutal and so are humans (because humans are also nature, plot twist!)

I actively laughed out loud at the consequences of the little person who tried to get food by pretending to be a baby bird.

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