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dsnake1's review against another edition
3.0
NetGalley and publisher provided me with an advanced copy.
Eros/Psyche is a slow-burn sapphic dark academia romance that really just wasn't enough for me.
The comic itself simply didn't provide the necessary details or plot to make the experience enjoyable. Llovet is talented, and the stylized art was great, but this needed a lot more than what was on the page.
Frankly, the plot is serviceable if everything that's in the blurb was on the page and there was a bit more added to nearly every scene.
Eros/Psyche is a slow-burn sapphic dark academia romance that really just wasn't enough for me.
The comic itself simply didn't provide the necessary details or plot to make the experience enjoyable. Llovet is talented, and the stylized art was great, but this needed a lot more than what was on the page.
Frankly, the plot is serviceable if everything that's in the blurb was on the page and there was a bit more added to nearly every scene.
brittmariasbooks's review against another edition
3.0
I thought this would be a sapphic retelling of the Eros and Psyche myth. I was a bit disappointed that it wasn't. The art is beautiful. The first four issues set up quite a mysterious, slightly dark academia story. I'm intrigued to read more but as for now I feel similar towards Eros/Psyche as I did towards The Wicked + The Divine.
luss44's review against another edition
3.0
dark academia vibes level 1000, ale príbeh mohol byť trochu viac dotiahnutý.
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EDIT: The premise of this book sounded exactly like my cup of tea. Witchy dark academia graphic novel with sapphic romance? Yes, please.
Unfortunately, the execution wasn’t as great for me as I hoped. The story is told retrospectively from the perspective of the main character Sara who was accepted to an elite and secretive academy for witches. As a concept, it’s really interesting, but for it to be well realized it was too short for my liking. The life at the academy as well as romance which I thought would be the main focus of the story was told only in short episodes, plot twists weren’t very surprising. The dialogues and descriptions are very scarce even for the graphic novel, lots of panels are silent. That on the one hand helped build a mysterious atmosphere, but on the other hand, it also made lots of stuff a little bit confusing, at least for me. Overall, I would like if the story would be a little bit longer and more detailed. The characters were, too, (maybe except two main protagonists), quite one-dimensional, and served only as a background. I didn’t even know which one is which most of the time.
An artstyle of the graphic novel is quite simplistic, which didn’t specifically bother me and it accented the dark academia vibes rather well, however it also isn’t something I will particulary remember.
In conclusion, I would say that this graphic novel was quite average. I don’t think it was a complete waste of my time but it also wasn’t something that will stick with me for long.
I want to thank Netgalley for the digital copy of this book for the review.
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EDIT: The premise of this book sounded exactly like my cup of tea. Witchy dark academia graphic novel with sapphic romance? Yes, please.
Unfortunately, the execution wasn’t as great for me as I hoped. The story is told retrospectively from the perspective of the main character Sara who was accepted to an elite and secretive academy for witches. As a concept, it’s really interesting, but for it to be well realized it was too short for my liking. The life at the academy as well as romance which I thought would be the main focus of the story was told only in short episodes, plot twists weren’t very surprising. The dialogues and descriptions are very scarce even for the graphic novel, lots of panels are silent. That on the one hand helped build a mysterious atmosphere, but on the other hand, it also made lots of stuff a little bit confusing, at least for me. Overall, I would like if the story would be a little bit longer and more detailed. The characters were, too, (maybe except two main protagonists), quite one-dimensional, and served only as a background. I didn’t even know which one is which most of the time.
An artstyle of the graphic novel is quite simplistic, which didn’t specifically bother me and it accented the dark academia vibes rather well, however it also isn’t something I will particulary remember.
In conclusion, I would say that this graphic novel was quite average. I don’t think it was a complete waste of my time but it also wasn’t something that will stick with me for long.
I want to thank Netgalley for the digital copy of this book for the review.
novelbloglover's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
4.25
Book Review
Title: Eros/Psyche by Maria Llovet
Genre: LGBT, Graphic Novel
Rating: 4.25 Stars
Eros/Psyche was a strange yet interesting graphic novel following a bunch of budding witches at a female boarding school called The Rose. We are introduced to our protagonist, Sara, who seems to be telling the story in the past tense and the whole graphic novel is snap shots of her time at The Rose accompanied by her narration from the future. The first person she meets at The Rose is Silje and the pair quickly become almost inseparable which has an added benefit for Sara and Silje is the key student meaning she is in charge of the other students and keeping them in line. There don’t seem to be many rules at The Rose but the ones they do have are heavily enforced and punishment for breaking them is a trip to The Room.
The Room is a mysterious place and the first time we are introduced to it is when a student hangs herself after being taken there. However, the student don’t linger on this long as they have exams coming up and the student that scores the lowest will be forced to leave the school. Over the next several months students come and go from The Rose and during this time the relationship between Sara and Silje is deepening too. However, our focus is drawn to a new student, Vanna, who isn’t like the other girls at the school as she is disturbed and violent and ends up getting kicked out barely a week after arriving but before she leaves she says something to Sara that she doesn’t share with anyone. We are also introduced to Tamlyn who finds an injured boy on the school grounds and keeps him hidden while she helps him heal and the pair end up in a relationship. When this is discovered the boy is taken by Silje and shown the way out and Tamlyn is taken to The Room and she isn’t the same afterwards.
After witnessing this Sara is hesitant to take her relationship with Silje to a physical level but attempts it but Silje’s reaction at first isn’t a good one. Sara obviously hurt hides away in the garden where they first met and Silje comes to find her. Here their relationship takes a physical turn and things begin returning to normal but not for long. It soon becomes clear that the student numbers are going down until only Sara, Silje and Tamlyn remain and one needs to leave. Tamlyn volunteers as she has been wanting to leave The Rose for a while meaning the last two students are Sara and Silje and only one can remain. During the final exams, Sara is fully prepared to leave the school but is heartbroken to learn that Silje is leaving not her. Here Silje explains something about the school that I wasn’t expecting and her role within the school as key student which is now being passed to Sara. The ending leads me to believe that Sara is still at the school and that one day she hopes to reunite with Silje like Eros and Psyche did in Greek mythology. Overall, Eros/Psyche was an interesting story with a great minimalist art style and surprisingly little dialogue meaning the story is told almost entirely through its imagery and it took me by surprise.
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