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3.38 AVERAGE
3.38 AVERAGE
reflective
sad
medium-paced
I'm glad I pushed through past the obnoxious (to me) beginning of the book. I enjoyed the stories of the different characters throughout their lives and found the illustrations pretty evocative.
Une jolie BD sur la nostalgie et la force des liens tissés à l'adolescence. Les dessins, très réussis, sont une des grandes forces de cette BD.
Alla fine resta un po' di amarezza.
Non l'ho trovata impeccabile, anzi, troppo veloce forse, mi aspettavo che si arrivasse a certi punti con più calma.
Tuttavia, è la prima volta che leggo una graphic novel, quindi non ho un metro di paragone però di pancia non posso dare un giudizio eccellente.
Sicuramente mi sono piaciuti i colori abbinati ai sentimenti e la punta di malinconia che si prova dall'inizio alla fine.
Non l'ho trovata impeccabile, anzi, troppo veloce forse, mi aspettavo che si arrivasse a certi punti con più calma.
Tuttavia, è la prima volta che leggo una graphic novel, quindi non ho un metro di paragone però di pancia non posso dare un giudizio eccellente.
Sicuramente mi sono piaciuti i colori abbinati ai sentimenti e la punta di malinconia che si prova dall'inizio alla fine.
reflective
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
This was a lovely little graphic novel about two lovers, which manages to somehow avoid their love story. Lucia and Piero meet as teenagers when he glimpses her moving into a new apartment with her mother. The story then jumps to the end of their relationship when Lucia moves to Oslo, Norway and then further away as Piero goes to Egypt for work. Though they are broken up and have both moved on they have not quite forgotten each other. I actually found it to be one of the most realistic portrayals of love I've ever seen. And the art was lovely. So why only three stars? Well, first off, I don't consider three stars a bad score. But I couldn't quite give it more because there just wasn't enough there. I would have like to know all those involved better. I know it's a graphic novel so there are certain concessions to plot that have to be made, but I've seen others get deeper with the same medium so I wouldn't have minded to see that here.
Bofibof l’histoire et le développement des personnages, par contre très joli.
1.5 stars only for the watercolor artwork - showing emotion through color is Art 101 but it was still pretty enough. Everything else was everything I hate about reading straight allo romances of the more "literary" bent: the random, miserable sex, the people so detestable in their banality, the lack of... anything, really, that might be compelling (characterization, relationship dynamics, plot, engaging conflict - everything, literally everything happened off-page to be vaguely discussed later on via telephone or letter, to no conceivable end). The bits in Egypt felt racist, too, or xenophobic at best. I genuinely have no idea why I marked it to-read on Hoopla.