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Nimona by ND Stevenson

25 reviews

bellebookstitch666's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny reflective sad tense 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

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Content Warnings

Minor: Kidnapping, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Medical content, Police brutality, Torture, and Gore

rainbowpridepin's review

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring tense 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Murder, Violence, and Death

Moderate: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Police brutality, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Vomit

some_random_person_hi's review

adventurous emotional hopeful lighthearted sad tense fast-paced

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

My reading comprehension isn't good enough to understand that ending. Everything before it was a wild ride though.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Medical content, Fire/Fire injury, Confinement, and Police brutality

Moderate: Child death, Pandemic/Epidemic, Gun violence, Grief, Blood, Murder, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

zoiejanelle's review

adventurous emotional funny hopeful lighthearted tense fast-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? It's complicated

4.0

i have been a huge fan of ND for years and was happy to finally sit down and read the infamous NIMONA. this story was extremely unique and i couldn’t help but to love Nimona and Blackheart the most. it felt like some parts had been cut (from the original web comic) for space, but otherwise the pacing was on point and plot was very entertaining. i feel like if there had been more world-building up front (because the setting really is unexpected and unique) or if i had read this when it was a web comic, it would be a 5/5. but for now, it gets a 4! 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Alcohol, War, Animal death, Blood, Abandonment, Fire/Fire injury, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Police brutality, and Violence

jessthanthree's review

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful lighthearted mysterious 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

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Forced institutionalization and Confinement

Minor: Child abuse, Homophobia, Fire/Fire injury, and Police brutality

phoebemurtagh's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful sad tense 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Murder, Forced institutionalization, and Blood

Moderate: Police brutality and Vomit

bexi's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny lighthearted mysterious fast-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Murder, Violence, Death, Blood, Gun violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Confinement and Police brutality

littlebutton's review

adventurous emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

This is a very queer graphic novel, although not necessarily in terms of explicit representation. While

Blackwell and Goldenloin are depicted as former lovers and implied to get back together at the end

, that’s all it really is: implied. I’d argue it’s more text than subtext, but it’s still subtle enough that I could see someone missing it. 

Nimona though. That girl is queer as hell. I mean, really the whole comic is. But not in the “two people of the same gender kissed!” way. More so in the “Stevenson’s own queer identity was obviously integral to the development of the themes here and any interpretation of the story that didn’t take that into account would be deeply missing the point”. Also, Nimona herself changes into male forms and seems to identity with them. It’s queer. Plus the whole

monster

thing. Suuuuper fucking queer. 

Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go reread the ending and think about

manifestations of abuse.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Police brutality, Torture, and Medical trauma

penofpossibilities's review

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Confinement, Police brutality, and Murder

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury and Violence

Minor: Injury/Injury detail and Child death

lab experiments on people

annablume's review

adventurous dark fast-paced

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

3.0

Nice little Story, nothing groundbreaking but good

has some pandemic themes

also kinda stranger things/elfenlied elements

Ending was meh

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Torture

Minor: Police brutality, Animal death, and Blood