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4.29 AVERAGE
4.29 AVERAGE
dark
tense
medium-paced
challenging
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
This really grabbed me for some reason. It's very much like Lost, if there was an apocalypse and their friends tried to save them.
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
N/A
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
challenging
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
One of the most interesting setups. I really hope it sticks the landing.
dark
emotional
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Gore, Fire/Fire injury
Moderate: Deadnaming, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Grief, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Self harm, Suicide attempt
In re: self harm and the suicide attempt,
A character realizes that everyone at the house has a healing factor. In order to test this, he uses a razor to cut his arms (off-panel, although his bloody arms are shown later) and then his throat (on-panel, but he cannot die and knows this).
TLDR while the acts of self harm and suicide attempt are present they’re not connected to the typical emotional baggage of those CWs.
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
After a few weaker graphic novel choices recently, Tynion's first six issues of The Nice House on the Lake> were a breath of freshly fetid air. Part horror, part science fiction, the set up is absolutely cliched for the genre: a number of young people are gathered together at a remote house by a mysterious host who seems to be playing a strange and morbid game. Will they survive? (And many more of the conceits are borrowed from similar plots from Stephen King, M Night Shyamalan, and others.)
After that, however, Tynion has other plans for us. The relationships are rich and convoluted, the conflicts are each personal and global, the surprises are usually genuine, and the artwork is gorgeous. Many have praised the diversity of the characters, particularly in the healthy normalizing of non-binary relationships. Mostly though, for me, I appreciated both the believability of each character and the tensions built from many ultimately respectable perspectives. What is really the question for readers: exactly what are the stakes here for each?
It is this approach to the narrative which makes the otherwise formulaic story conceit fresh and fascinating. The foreshadowing is thick, the hypotheses offered unsound, and so we worry alongside each of them in this claustrophobic utopia, wondering exactly "what the rules are."
Fortunately, Volume 2, issues 7-12, have bee published, so I will not have to wait long to find out.
After that, however, Tynion has other plans for us. The relationships are rich and convoluted, the conflicts are each personal and global, the surprises are usually genuine, and the artwork is gorgeous. Many have praised the diversity of the characters, particularly in the healthy normalizing of non-binary relationships. Mostly though, for me, I appreciated both the believability of each character and the tensions built from many ultimately respectable perspectives. What is really the question for readers: exactly what are the stakes here for each?
It is this approach to the narrative which makes the otherwise formulaic story conceit fresh and fascinating. The foreshadowing is thick, the hypotheses offered unsound, and so we worry alongside each of them in this claustrophobic utopia, wondering exactly "what the rules are."
Fortunately, Volume 2, issues 7-12, have bee published, so I will not have to wait long to find out.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Cursing, Gore, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Abandonment
Vol 1 was good as a setup, but it turns out that this whole series is setup. Ultimately unsatisfying. And decidedly not scary.
dark
emotional
funny
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated