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geekwayne's review against another edition
3.0
'Displaced Persons' is a graphic novel about a cursed family. The book includes three larger stories that overlap, and some intermittent smaller ones. While I liked the concept, it was only just okay.
There are timelines of the family throughout the book to keep the family members straight. In 1939, we have a detective hired to find a missing heiress. In 1969, we have the story of a couple twin brothers involved in a drug deal from two different angles. One is a cop, the other is not. The final story is about a woman whose husband wants to borrow against the family home for a stock opportunity. He becomes increasingly violent towards her during the story. Throughout the stories, strange visitors show up who are confused about their surroundings. It's an interesting element to the story and confusing at first, but makes sense as things move along.
The art was interesting and the color tone used to interesting effect to denote time. The stories were good, but felt incomplete. I know that also fits with the story, but it felt a little unsatisfying as a reader. Overall I liked it, but I didn't love it. Your mileage my vary.
I was given a review copy of this graphic novel by Diamond Book Distributors and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this graphic novel.
There are timelines of the family throughout the book to keep the family members straight. In 1939, we have a detective hired to find a missing heiress. In 1969, we have the story of a couple twin brothers involved in a drug deal from two different angles. One is a cop, the other is not. The final story is about a woman whose husband wants to borrow against the family home for a stock opportunity. He becomes increasingly violent towards her during the story. Throughout the stories, strange visitors show up who are confused about their surroundings. It's an interesting element to the story and confusing at first, but makes sense as things move along.
The art was interesting and the color tone used to interesting effect to denote time. The stories were good, but felt incomplete. I know that also fits with the story, but it felt a little unsatisfying as a reader. Overall I liked it, but I didn't love it. Your mileage my vary.
I was given a review copy of this graphic novel by Diamond Book Distributors and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this graphic novel.
lukeisthename34's review against another edition
5.0
I got so wonderfully wrapped up in this book one evening I ended up reading it twice in one sitting. A worthy place to get lost. A perfect piece to read right before or after a book like Daytripper.
estellabelle92's review against another edition
4.0
Probably a book I need to re-read as there is so much covered in words and pictures that I lost track of who was who and what was happening when.
Time travel is often confusing, but it is worth it most of the time. Will try this again later.
Time travel is often confusing, but it is worth it most of the time. Will try this again later.
jmshirtz's review against another edition
4.0
I had a bit of a hard time keeping all the characters straight, but I loved the interconnected, cyclical storylines! I feel like I need to read it a few more times to experience this story fully. Very inventive with beautiful, realistic art.
smfields's review
2.0
I kind of expected a lot more from this book. The premise and general story structure were really very cool and there were some pretty neat choices in the art. Ultimately though I think it tried to be too many things at once. It was bit confusing in places and the characters and story lacked depth. It might have been better as a limited series or something so that it had more time to explore its world and characters. Also I felt like some of the characters were problematic in the way that they fed into stereotypes and there were a few points in the book where the language made me a bit uncomfortable. I understand that a lot of the story takes place during times when those things were more openly excepted and maybe they were tying to stay authentic to the time, but there are ways contextualize those things and critique them without losing authenticity. I was also hoping for a lot more San Francisco history and culture in the book. It felt rather arbitrary that SF was the setting. There are so many ways that this book could have been amazing and it's a real bummer it wasn't.
booksnbookends's review
3.0
I received a free copy of the book by the publishers via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
A generally good read, enjoyable and a bit of fun. Fair warning though that this comic is most certainly one for adults, it uses a great deal of profanity which is something I don't tend to enjoy though others may well do. My favourite character was that of the detective who is more than a little strapped for cash and still hires the services of his friend, much to his wife's horror. The book has a good twist at the end which made it worth the while of reading, though I don't think I will be reading it again any time soon.
This was quite enjoyable, but there were more than a few problems with my version of the book. To start with, it was blurry which made the text barely legible at some points and made the story confusing to understand. The book also journeys through various time periods introducing lots of new characters and at times it's hard to remember what is happening to whom, where and when. This is greatly helped by the different colouring of characters who have been 'displaced' in the story into another time period/place. It has small titles and timelines indicating when a change in time period is occurring and if not for those I would be extremely confused!
A generally good read, enjoyable and a bit of fun. Fair warning though that this comic is most certainly one for adults, it uses a great deal of profanity which is something I don't tend to enjoy though others may well do. My favourite character was that of the detective who is more than a little strapped for cash and still hires the services of his friend, much to his wife's horror. The book has a good twist at the end which made it worth the while of reading, though I don't think I will be reading it again any time soon.
This was quite enjoyable, but there were more than a few problems with my version of the book. To start with, it was blurry which made the text barely legible at some points and made the story confusing to understand. The book also journeys through various time periods introducing lots of new characters and at times it's hard to remember what is happening to whom, where and when. This is greatly helped by the different colouring of characters who have been 'displaced' in the story into another time period/place. It has small titles and timelines indicating when a change in time period is occurring and if not for those I would be extremely confused!
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