Reviews

Cuckoo by Joe Sparrow

mjpens's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious medium-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

5.0

eitheror's review

4.0

I think I wasn't quite the right audience for this, but I think a lot of people will really resonate with this. Beautiful art style (though I feel like some of the art was warped in the print edition due to being too close to the spine) and I really liked the focus on female friendships. I think it maybe had too much space when I would have liked it if it was a bit narratively tighter, but I think this was more of a taste thing.

gifcompatible's review

challenging emotional hopeful medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

_david_'s review

3.0

The art is beautiful, but the story is underwhelming. It's a story about a lack of future ambition and therefore feeling anxious and lost, yet unmotivated at the same time. I understand the plottwist, I think it's an important change of perspective. However, due to a lack of a follow-up chapter to show the consequences, it makes me feel like the story was stopped in the middle of it. I think an example of an alternative ending which I would've enjoyed even more, is to pretend p. 179-182 were moved to the end.

billybookmark's review

3.0

took this book to finally clock sparrow's art is almost too clean, but checks out when it comes to his synthetic characters

elenavarg's review

3.0

(3,5 stars)

Excellent illustrations and colors; the story left me wanting more. Too much telling, not showing.

The ending was surprisingly bittet-sweet, but the final plit twist kind of took the wind out of the whole coming-of-age aspect of the story. It made it seems like everything the protagonist was feeling was explained away with this plot twist, which I don’t think was the author’s intention.

arfranklin's review

emotional funny mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

clemencats's review

adventurous emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

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

4.5

Gorgeous work! The two page spreads are beautiful and I can tell a lot of love went into this book. Also surprised but pleased by the ending—a mixture of melancholy and hope. 

bigbean's review

adventurous emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

4.5

vhellmer's review

adventurous reflective

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

4.5