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3.09 AVERAGE
3.09 AVERAGE
First of all, this is a 3-star graphic novel/comic, to be honest. However, I was on a slow dreading weekend and this comic just gave me the strength to finally do something. I was so stuck, I couldn't make two phone calls or make any plans. Anyway, the storyline is good. I am glad Evie didn't violently take out Mallory or something. It was a good gesture.
Finally, "Wherever life takes you, even if things get tough, never forget that you are loved. A good friend once shared that advice with me"
Thanks for the memories <3 and reminder <3 [a:Joe Sugg|13435870|Joe Sugg|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1431798350p2/13435870.jpg]
Finally, "Wherever life takes you, even if things get tough, never forget that you are loved. A good friend once shared that advice with me"
Thanks for the memories <3 and reminder <3 [a:Joe Sugg|13435870|Joe Sugg|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1431798350p2/13435870.jpg]
This was a pretty cute and awesome story. It was pretty original and it definitely kept me interested.
I liked it enough to want to read the second book [b:Username: Regenerated|29890569|Username Regenerated|Joe Sugg|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1475305899s/29890569.jpg|50264115]
I liked it enough to want to read the second book [b:Username: Regenerated|29890569|Username Regenerated|Joe Sugg|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1475305899s/29890569.jpg|50264115]
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Gore
Moderate: Bullying, Death, Grief, Death of parent
This graphic novel was definitely one of the best that I've read in a while as it was difficult to put down - something that for me is a brilliant thing. I loved the story line and the female lead Evie, put a different spin on things. I absolutely loved the art work as well! This will definately get reread multiple times in the future.
I must day this wasn't what I expected. It was a very touching story, which I feel graphic novels have a hard time doing without becoming cheesy. Also, props to Joe Sugg for giving all the people the credit they deserve who helped write the book!
fast-paced
I knew nothing of the author when I started Username: Evie. I thought the cover looked interesting and the blurb promising. This book left me disappointed.
The plot was vastly underdeveloped. This fantasy world that was created is all about fulfillment and happiness; its one dimensional and uninteresting with no risks aside from those that enter when a cookie-cutter villain enters the world. The cousin as a villain was a decent choice, but she went from zero to one hundred in just a few pages with no textual or visual explanation and makes a similar turn at the end. The literary whiplash was hard to take.
The art was atrocious and inconsistent. I had a legitimate time discerning Evie from other characters in the world because the artist did not have the experience required to keep characters looking the same. Even more than the story, this was an enormous let down. The art on the cover that had drawn me in was drastically different from what was in the book.
My one compliment - and the reason I have this book two stars instead of one - was the color work. If you don't know this, the color work in comics is often done by someone entirely different then the person who draws the actual comic. And I have give props to them (I think its Joaquin Pereyra, and I am sorry if I'm wrong) I was very impressed with the color work despite the horrible art.
Had Username: Evie been work shopped more I can see the book being somewhat have been somewhat better but the inexperienced artistry is something that gets to me. It wasn't stylized or abstract, it was just bad and changed constantly. I hope the author puts more thought into whatever he does next. The book market is filled with low quality works, don't let your book be one of them.
The plot was vastly underdeveloped. This fantasy world that was created is all about fulfillment and happiness; its one dimensional and uninteresting with no risks aside from those that enter when a cookie-cutter villain enters the world. The cousin as a villain was a decent choice, but she went from zero to one hundred in just a few pages with no textual or visual explanation and makes a similar turn at the end. The literary whiplash was hard to take.
The art was atrocious and inconsistent. I had a legitimate time discerning Evie from other characters in the world because the artist did not have the experience required to keep characters looking the same. Even more than the story, this was an enormous let down. The art on the cover that had drawn me in was drastically different from what was in the book.
My one compliment - and the reason I have this book two stars instead of one - was the color work. If you don't know this, the color work in comics is often done by someone entirely different then the person who draws the actual comic. And I have give props to them (I think its Joaquin Pereyra, and I am sorry if I'm wrong) I was very impressed with the color work despite the horrible art.
Had Username: Evie been work shopped more I can see the book being somewhat have been somewhat better but the inexperienced artistry is something that gets to me. It wasn't stylized or abstract, it was just bad and changed constantly. I hope the author puts more thought into whatever he does next. The book market is filled with low quality works, don't let your book be one of them.
It's not like me to be overtly harsh towards books that are clearly meant for a demographic that I am not a part of, but I feel like this one warrants an exception.
The art was pretty, but art alone will not support an entire graphic novel on its own. This is exemplified in the poor panel layout leading to weird and clunky pacing throughout that does nothing with the art at all to expand on any ideas; I suppose this could be because there are no ideas to expand on. And speaking of the story, it could have been hilariously bland and formulaic, except any humor that may have been found in its cliches was undermined by badly written characters and dialogue and a complete lack of self-awareness. There was nothing original or interesting about it at all, and was just yet another young-adult/teen romance but boiled down to its most basic, bland essence, with some pseudo-apocalyptic sprinkles thrown on top for flavor. Sprinkles taste like garbage, though, and so do literally nothing to give any kind of complexity to the story. The dialogue was stilted and awkward without exception start to finish, and some lines were so cliche that I can't believe an editor worked on this and wasn't immediately fired upon publication. I've never read, seen, or even heard of anything where a character says, "My work here is done," without irony until now. Truly cringe-worthy.
The characters themselves may as well have been cardboard cut-outs with cliche'd character tropes like "lonely outcast" and "sensitive jock" written on them in Sharpie; that would have at least been original. Instead, they were every "outcast" and "jock" since the beginning of teen lit, and though not all of them were completely two-dimensional, the deepest of the lot was just slightly thicker cardboard. There was zero character development, giving the characters no motivations for any of their actions. This left me with a lot of questions like: Why was Mallory such a bitch all the time? Why is Evie such an outcast? Is Lionel just vision-impaired, or is he actually a huge nerd? Who edited this and decided it was acceptable? None of these questions were even acknowledged.
This book was the same story as literally any other young-adult romantic fiction thing, but told in a graphic novel with worse dialogue and flatter characters. There is nothing special or interesting about it, and could have been executed far better by someone who knew how to organize a page in a graphic novel, or someone who knew how to write characters, or someone who knew how to write.
The art was pretty, but art alone will not support an entire graphic novel on its own. This is exemplified in the poor panel layout leading to weird and clunky pacing throughout that does nothing with the art at all to expand on any ideas; I suppose this could be because there are no ideas to expand on. And speaking of the story, it could have been hilariously bland and formulaic, except any humor that may have been found in its cliches was undermined by badly written characters and dialogue and a complete lack of self-awareness. There was nothing original or interesting about it at all, and was just yet another young-adult/teen romance but boiled down to its most basic, bland essence, with some pseudo-apocalyptic sprinkles thrown on top for flavor. Sprinkles taste like garbage, though, and so do literally nothing to give any kind of complexity to the story. The dialogue was stilted and awkward without exception start to finish, and some lines were so cliche that I can't believe an editor worked on this and wasn't immediately fired upon publication. I've never read, seen, or even heard of anything where a character says, "My work here is done," without irony until now. Truly cringe-worthy.
The characters themselves may as well have been cardboard cut-outs with cliche'd character tropes like "lonely outcast" and "sensitive jock" written on them in Sharpie; that would have at least been original. Instead, they were every "outcast" and "jock" since the beginning of teen lit, and though not all of them were completely two-dimensional, the deepest of the lot was just slightly thicker cardboard. There was zero character development, giving the characters no motivations for any of their actions. This left me with a lot of questions like: Why was Mallory such a bitch all the time? Why is Evie such an outcast? Is Lionel just vision-impaired, or is he actually a huge nerd?
Spoiler
Why does Jaspar even exist in this story?This book was the same story as literally any other young-adult romantic fiction thing, but told in a graphic novel with worse dialogue and flatter characters. There is nothing special or interesting about it, and could have been executed far better by someone who knew how to organize a page in a graphic novel, or someone who knew how to write characters, or someone who knew how to write.