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corrie's review
4.0
In Lady Mechanika, Volume 5: La Belle Dame Sans Merci we find Lady Mechanika
concerned for her associate’s behavior. Mr. Lewis is under the thrall of the beautiful young widow who’s own past seems linked with the untimely deaths of several creative geniuses. Will Mr. Lewis be next?
Joe Benítez supplies us with page after page of gorgeously detailed art. The storyline are garnished with plenty of action and suspence. We are teased with Mechanika’s mysterious origins story in the prelude, but don’t expect anything solid yet (sigh). While the artwork is getting better, the stories are not.
Themes: Victorian Steampunk on steroids, awesome artwork, and great costumes.
4 stars
concerned for her associate’s behavior. Mr. Lewis is under the thrall of the beautiful young widow who’s own past seems linked with the untimely deaths of several creative geniuses. Will Mr. Lewis be next?
Joe Benítez supplies us with page after page of gorgeously detailed art. The storyline are garnished with plenty of action and suspence. We are teased with Mechanika’s mysterious origins story in the prelude, but don’t expect anything solid yet (sigh). While the artwork is getting better, the stories are not.
Themes: Victorian Steampunk on steroids, awesome artwork, and great costumes.
4 stars
adancewithbooks's review
3.0
Thank you to Netgalley and Diamond Book Distributors for the review copy in exchange for an honest review. This does not change my opinion in any way.
This volume starts us of with us heading into a bit of Lady Mechanika’s past. Or at least there are some hints there. It got me quite excited to maybe see a bit more of it discovered in this volume.
Unfortunately that did not happen. Those little hints were all we got and the story shifted.
I could have really liked the shift of story as it goes into Lewis’ problems, if it had also properly gone into the bond these two have. Instead it barely skims the surface. Lewis makes it clear he doesn’t feel appreciated and lady Mechanika feels attacked. That is it. It sucks because Lewis fragility here opened up a lot. He is clearly suffering and it could have added an emotional feel to this volume.
Instead I got a negative feel from this volume. Lewis is trying to deal with the loss of his family that he blames on himself. It makes him drown himself in drinks. His decisions when he does stop drinking aren’t of liking to Lady Mechanika. And yes she had every right to criticize them. They weren’t great. HOWEVER at what point is it okay for her to make decisions for another adult because she doesn’t like/agree with them? He wasn’t under a spell in that he was being coerced. The end clearly showed that. I am interested in seeing how this backlash will be dealt with in later volumes because you can’t just recover from something like that in a friendship.
I feel like these volumes (this one was just 100 pages) really aren’t long enough to do justice to the world, the stories and any kind of overarching plot with Lady Mechanika’s past.
The art in itself is great and consistent.
This volume starts us of with us heading into a bit of Lady Mechanika’s past. Or at least there are some hints there. It got me quite excited to maybe see a bit more of it discovered in this volume.
Unfortunately that did not happen. Those little hints were all we got and the story shifted.
I could have really liked the shift of story as it goes into Lewis’ problems, if it had also properly gone into the bond these two have. Instead it barely skims the surface. Lewis makes it clear he doesn’t feel appreciated and lady Mechanika feels attacked. That is it. It sucks because Lewis fragility here opened up a lot. He is clearly suffering and it could have added an emotional feel to this volume.
Instead I got a negative feel from this volume. Lewis is trying to deal with the loss of his family that he blames on himself. It makes him drown himself in drinks. His decisions when he does stop drinking aren’t of liking to Lady Mechanika. And yes she had every right to criticize them. They weren’t great. HOWEVER at what point is it okay for her to make decisions for another adult because she doesn’t like/agree with them? He wasn’t under a spell in that he was being coerced. The end clearly showed that. I am interested in seeing how this backlash will be dealt with in later volumes because you can’t just recover from something like that in a friendship.
I feel like these volumes (this one was just 100 pages) really aren’t long enough to do justice to the world, the stories and any kind of overarching plot with Lady Mechanika’s past.
The art in itself is great and consistent.
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