Reviews with content warning for Sexual assault - Speak: The Graphic Novel

This story is a lot like Junji Ito’s No Longer Human. An adaptation of a novel turning it into a visual medium. So many of my thoughts from No Longer Human can be applied here.

It really captures the pain and emotions felt by the narrator. The detail is incredible. And I love how experimental and disturbing the art can get.

My only problem with this graphic novel and the novel itself was the ending. It still leaves a lot of loose ends, which is always a pet peeve of mine when it comes to endings.

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challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.25

so good. preferred this over the novel ; something about visually seeing what happened vs. reading it hits harder.

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_daintybunni's review against another edition

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dark emotional sad medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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challenging emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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robinks's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

I haven’t read the book, but the graphic novel version was powerful and some of the images were incredibly haunting. The resources in the back were helpful, and I hope that stories like this will become outdated soon. I docked half a star because the timeline was a little disjointed and clunky, and there are ways the illustrator could have more clearly delineated time passing.

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