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bookish_burrow's review
adventurous
dark
medium-paced
2.5
Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for an e-arc in exchange for an honest review.
This wasn't entirely what I was expecting and that's okay, I don't want to take any points off for that. This graphic novel focuses on fourteen-year-old Abel and his fellow cosplaying friends as they go to Paris Comic-con. The artwork was absolutely stunning and I loved all the different costumes and references made to pop culture throughout this graphic novel. This book does go into a little more gritty detail and illustrations surrounding the intelligence team plot, which surprised me. I also felt that not all the characters were as well developed as they could have been by the end of the story based on what they just went through. I also felt like the friend group kind of hated each other? There were some definite points of camaraderie between them but I wish we could have seen more of the connection they all have as friends past the fact that they all like to cosplay. I did like the themes of being the heroes of our own story throughout the book however, I am not sure if it was the pacing or the kind of one-dimensional character or what, but this one just kind of fell flat for me.
I am not sure that it is suitable for middle-grade and rather more like 15 and up. Of course, though, every reader is different and can handle certain topics differently.
This wasn't entirely what I was expecting and that's okay, I don't want to take any points off for that. This graphic novel focuses on fourteen-year-old Abel and his fellow cosplaying friends as they go to Paris Comic-con. The artwork was absolutely stunning and I loved all the different costumes and references made to pop culture throughout this graphic novel. This book does go into a little more gritty detail and illustrations surrounding the intelligence team plot, which surprised me. I also felt that not all the characters were as well developed as they could have been by the end of the story based on what they just went through. I also felt like the friend group kind of hated each other? There were some definite points of camaraderie between them but I wish we could have seen more of the connection they all have as friends past the fact that they all like to cosplay. I did like the themes of being the heroes of our own story throughout the book however, I am not sure if it was the pacing or the kind of one-dimensional character or what, but this one just kind of fell flat for me.
I am not sure that it is suitable for middle-grade and rather more like 15 and up. Of course, though, every reader is different and can handle certain topics differently.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Gun violence, Violence, and Blood
Moderate: Child death and Death
Minor: Sexism
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