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L’univers est incroyable. C’est gothique, c’est beau, c’est flippant tout à la fois. Je m’y attendais pas
Holy hell, this was unexpected. Really great world building - really unsettling. I'm dying to see where the next volume goes.
This was weird enough but really good! Giants ogre acting like Gods over humans population, eating them and ruling them like they want to. The story is good, the universe is great and the rythm is well balance between story evolution and action. There is also pages from time to time that goes back to the history of some characters or their relatives in ancien time, and those part are totaly in text, not comic. A good, original and unique work! Well done!!
This is very much a fairy tale in the vein of The Brothers Grimm and Hans Christen Anderson(probs spelt it wrong, sue me.) It’s a truly original story that takes you for a ride.
What I personally love is the trope or moreso the male savior fantasy of stopping a sexual assault. In this story they Hubert uses that trope to convey a message about how masculinity is defined in modern times and even throughout history. The big, overpowered, imperialist ogres imposing their will on anyone and everyone, the human guards doing the same, while Petit, our protagonist, who wants to dance instead of conquer, who refuses to “do is duty” as a man and use women as tools, but instead uses his power to challenge all in power, the very overt lesson gives such a classical fairy tale vibe that I fell in love. Excellent story, unique and stellar art
What I personally love is the trope or moreso the male savior fantasy of stopping a sexual assault. In this story they Hubert uses that trope to convey a message about how masculinity is defined in modern times and even throughout history. The big, overpowered, imperialist ogres imposing their will on anyone and everyone, the human guards doing the same, while Petit, our protagonist, who wants to dance instead of conquer, who refuses to “do is duty” as a man and use women as tools, but instead uses his power to challenge all in power, the very overt lesson gives such a classical fairy tale vibe that I fell in love. Excellent story, unique and stellar art
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Ohhh this was creepy and neato. This is another situation where I wish Goodreads did half stars because this is definitely a solid 3.5 teetering on the edge of 4.
I'm more than a little bit in love with this absolutely grotesque world of man eating giants obsessed with maintaining their gargantuan stature. After years of inbreeding they are little more than oversized, babbling morons with an endless hunger for human's. The current giant queen gives birth to a human sized baby who she comes to believe with be the savior of the family. "Petit" is just like the ancient founder of their family, a conquering warrior who was man sized like Petit but nevertheless fathered countless giant children.
Petit is raised in secret by his human loving (non cannibal) aunt Desdee who encourages to abandon the human eating and terrorizing ways of his family, fostering in him a love of art and music. But Petit struggles within the confines of his world. If his father or evil, stupid brother's find him they'll eat him in two bites, but he longs to be a part of the wider world. Meanwhile is increasingly mentally impaired mother fights Desdee's teachings to instill in him the same fire that fuels her to save their family line from extinction.
There's just so much to unpack with this story. Author Hubert has created a really rich and epic sized history of this appalling race of monsters. Each chapter of Petit's story is begun with a short story that tells the history of the more notable members of the giant family, how it formed, and how its begun to fall. Its grim and gorgeous storytelling.
Obviously a big part of the "gorgeous" is Bertrand Gatignol's just delicious art work. Everything is done in this incredibly rich black and white. The giants are especially wonderful. They're draw with incredibly detail with full, lush lips and deep crevices in their faces. Their eyes seem to burn with a constant, black hatred for every human they come across. Petit, by contrast, is very wide eyed and seems to radiate a sort of restless energy, like he's infused with lightening.
There's A LOT of bloodshed and buckets of blood and human devouring but its somehow kind of darkly enchanting rather than disgusting. There's an opulence to this world that's attractive. It reminded me very much of Versaille and the dying days of the French aristocracy.
The only fault I find here is Petit, despite being the hero, is left a bit in the background in favor of the gaudier, arguably more fun giants. We never really learn all that much about who he is as a person. He wrestles with his identity and clearly has to fight not to give into some of his more primal giant urges but I never got a clear picture of what he actually wanted from his life or how he wanted his situation to change.
Still I am THRILLED to see where this goes and if black comedy, decadence and giants are your thing this is very, very highly recommended.
I'm more than a little bit in love with this absolutely grotesque world of man eating giants obsessed with maintaining their gargantuan stature. After years of inbreeding they are little more than oversized, babbling morons with an endless hunger for human's. The current giant queen gives birth to a human sized baby who she comes to believe with be the savior of the family. "Petit" is just like the ancient founder of their family, a conquering warrior who was man sized like Petit but nevertheless fathered countless giant children.
Petit is raised in secret by his human loving (non cannibal) aunt Desdee who encourages to abandon the human eating and terrorizing ways of his family, fostering in him a love of art and music. But Petit struggles within the confines of his world. If his father or evil, stupid brother's find him they'll eat him in two bites, but he longs to be a part of the wider world. Meanwhile is increasingly mentally impaired mother fights Desdee's teachings to instill in him the same fire that fuels her to save their family line from extinction.
There's just so much to unpack with this story. Author Hubert has created a really rich and epic sized history of this appalling race of monsters. Each chapter of Petit's story is begun with a short story that tells the history of the more notable members of the giant family, how it formed, and how its begun to fall. Its grim and gorgeous storytelling.
Obviously a big part of the "gorgeous" is Bertrand Gatignol's just delicious art work. Everything is done in this incredibly rich black and white. The giants are especially wonderful. They're draw with incredibly detail with full, lush lips and deep crevices in their faces. Their eyes seem to burn with a constant, black hatred for every human they come across. Petit, by contrast, is very wide eyed and seems to radiate a sort of restless energy, like he's infused with lightening.
There's A LOT of bloodshed and buckets of blood and human devouring but its somehow kind of darkly enchanting rather than disgusting. There's an opulence to this world that's attractive. It reminded me very much of Versaille and the dying days of the French aristocracy.
The only fault I find here is Petit, despite being the hero, is left a bit in the background in favor of the gaudier, arguably more fun giants. We never really learn all that much about who he is as a person. He wrestles with his identity and clearly has to fight not to give into some of his more primal giant urges but I never got a clear picture of what he actually wanted from his life or how he wanted his situation to change.
Still I am THRILLED to see where this goes and if black comedy, decadence and giants are your thing this is very, very highly recommended.
Book provided by Lion Forge through Netgalley
TW: gore, attempted rape, cannibalism
In a royal family of monstrous ogres, continuous inbreeding has been yielding smaller and smaller children. Petit is the smallest yet. So small his mother did not know she was pregnant with him until she birthed him. Instantly reviled for his human size, the court demands to eat him, so such blight can be erased from the royal family.
His mother, however, believes Petit will bring about great things, much as their distant ancestor: the Founder, who mated with humans and thus had bigger and bigger children.
I absolutely LOVED this! Petit reads as a grotesque fairy tale, certainly not for the faint hearted, but amazing just the same. The monstrous court, violent and stupid, feasting on humans and reveling in their reign of terror, the bizarre architecture of the gigantic palace, the story meandering through the present interspersed with short stories about the great ancestors of the royal family... it was all absolutely delicious!
I highly recommend this one, and I can't wait for the second volume!
Somehow, this is both fascinating and appalling at the same time. Overall, I blame the artwork, which is rather charming. The story, on the other hand, is quite strange. It follows Petit, a prince, born to a queen unexpectedly at dinner and whose father wants to eat him because he's too small for a giant. The giants are the result of Founder's blood and years of inbreeding.
Hidden away with his aunt, Petit explores the world, escapes his father's attention and his mother's desire for him to breed with humans to rectify the issues of the inbreeding. However, we're not really given an idea of what Petit is thinking and he makes a lot of choices that are hard to discern meaning from as a result. Instead, we receive more detail on the history of the world, which is nice but adds nothing to the story.
Hidden away with his aunt, Petit explores the world, escapes his father's attention and his mother's desire for him to breed with humans to rectify the issues of the inbreeding. However, we're not really given an idea of what Petit is thinking and he makes a lot of choices that are hard to discern meaning from as a result. Instead, we receive more detail on the history of the world, which is nice but adds nothing to the story.