Reviews tagging 'Death'

Nimona by ND Stevenson

100 reviews

torismazarine's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced

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

5.0

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Child abuse, Forced institutionalization, Medical trauma, Ableism, Bullying, Classism, Confinement, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Medical content, and Murder

sabrinalefebvre's review against another edition

adventurous funny fast-paced

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

4.0

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Death

lavendwer's review

adventurous funny fast-paced

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

5.0

oh my goddd that ending hurt me

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Blood and Injury/Injury detail

prettyboypercy's review

adventurous emotional funny lighthearted fast-paced

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

4.5

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, and Blood

Moderate: Child abuse

Minor: Bullying

jac_panic_attac's review

adventurous emotional funny sad fast-paced

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

3.75

---

Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Death, Ableism, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

Minor: Police brutality, Torture, Confinement, and Toxic relationship

tinysierra's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious fast-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

I’m so grateful that this graphic novel exists so that the movie can exist. The movie is executed better. It was more cohesive, felt more emotional and had higher stakes.

But the characters are still here, still true to themselves and I love them so much <3

-Anti hero
-Disability and mlm rep
-reluctant father figure/found family
-villain vs good guy
-literal chaos goblin

If you love Nimona’s energy, I recommend the book Little Thieves by Margaret Owen.
If you like Nimona and Ballister’s dynamic, watch The Last of Us. 

Book 1 for the
#TransRightsReadathon2024

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Fire/Fire injury, Blood, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Police brutality and Pandemic/Epidemic

corpseuscollision's review

adventurous emotional funny fast-paced

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

5.0

---

Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Death

annapox's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful sad tense fast-paced

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

4.75

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Murder, Medical content, Animal cruelty, Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, and Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Murder, Blood, Animal death, Death, and Violence

Minor: Classism, Abandonment, Ableism, Grief, Cursing, Vomit, Gore, and Pandemic/Epidemic

anispaperbacks's review

adventurous emotional funny lighthearted fast-paced

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

3.75

 I had so much fun with this!!! I hadn't read it yet but I have seen the movie (trust that I ugly cry everytime I watch it) so I was so excited when I got my hands on a copy of it!! As it was a graphic novel, it was a super quick read. I could have easy done it in one sitting but I did space it out a bit to savour it :) At first I think it maybe felt a little jarring in comparison to the movie as it sort of jumped right in to Nimona being Ballister's sidekick etc etc but as I was reading it, it all started to feel more natural to the novel. In my opinion the movie did a more solid job of setting up characters, back stories, world building etc but that suits that media type while how the graphic novel did it suited its media type. Plot wise, they're fairly different, but again they both stand really well on their own and both are excellent pieces of media and I love them both dearly. It was great to be able to experience another version of Nimona and Ballister's antics and again, seripusly just such a fun and cool story. I love the characters and their, I love the cool futuristic medieval type world, I love the plot and its message (and i love the artstyle!!! its sososososo much fun as well) 

---

Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Blood, and Grief

joanna_banana's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad fast-paced

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

3.75

Usually I like books much better than the movie…but in this case, while I like the messages from the book and that it inspired an amazing movie, the graphic novel is much darker and serious. And quite a bit more violent. They did much more character development in the movie and built on Nimona and Ballister’s relationship more. The ending of the book is a little choppy and I had to re-read it to understand what happened. The message about not getting “stuck” or not needing to be “saved” were clear in the book, and I liked that they built on that in the movie and gave Nimona a strong voice. The artwork was cool. I liked that she keeps changing her hair :-)

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Blood, Death, Forced institutionalization, and Violence