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3.71 AVERAGE
3.71 AVERAGE
rebus's review
0.5
I so wanted to like this and be informed, but I then realized that it was written by Jeff Jensen, one of the most conservative propaganda voices in the world (he wrote the cop sucking ode to his father, the detective at the heart of the awful Green River Killer graphic novel, and turned Alan Moore's brilliant Watchmen concept into a faux BLM gesture that was actually cop sucking that crassly suggested it would all be OK if black people just became cops).
So, now he's bending over backwards to tell us that women are all goddesses and the bestest things on earth and that the pro slavery Lincoln was just a decent soul and not acting with political expediency when he freed the slaves. It was fanciful and filled with anachronistic language like "tastes like ass" and "to do list" and "above my pay grade" the former of which weren't heard until the last 50 years and the latter 100 years from the present respectively, while it depicts a very mentally ill Mary Lincoln as a strong willed genius. Not to mention a black female character who was designing weapons to rival James Bond's Q (curiously named Kew). Kate's husband is also depicted as a PC SNAG from the 90s, before he tragically dies young as if he was in an Oprah novel. And since when is Baltimore considered the south?
Jensen is a hack of a writer and an establishment tool who worships police and capitalism and industry and hates to see the people in power victimized by crime, though it is said by a character that Pinkerton merely ran a corporate protection racket, while Kate's own views sometimes veers toward anarchist (her mentor, Elizabeth Oakes Smith wanted the sort of equality that would create a world without police). He said history is a flawed story in the afterword, and he is unfortunately adding to that and not a corrective (as with all of his other horrific work that is a whitewash of history and not a rescuer of the underclass or downtrodden).
The art isn't great, the story telling is incoherent, with bizarre tonal shifts in color to indicate flashbacks, a device that works very poorly because it's scarcely noticeable at first and becomes an irritant later. There are the good moments I mentioned above, and a few others concerning women's rights and the evil of King Cotton, but this is mostly dreck from a boring, ill educated cop sucker.
So, now he's bending over backwards to tell us that women are all goddesses and the bestest things on earth and that the pro slavery Lincoln was just a decent soul and not acting with political expediency when he freed the slaves. It was fanciful and filled with anachronistic language like "tastes like ass" and "to do list" and "above my pay grade" the former of which weren't heard until the last 50 years and the latter 100 years from the present respectively, while it depicts a very mentally ill Mary Lincoln as a strong willed genius. Not to mention a black female character who was designing weapons to rival James Bond's Q (curiously named Kew). Kate's husband is also depicted as a PC SNAG from the 90s, before he tragically dies young as if he was in an Oprah novel. And since when is Baltimore considered the south?
Jensen is a hack of a writer and an establishment tool who worships police and capitalism and industry and hates to see the people in power victimized by crime, though it is said by a character that Pinkerton merely ran a corporate protection racket, while Kate's own views sometimes veers toward anarchist (her mentor, Elizabeth Oakes Smith wanted the sort of equality that would create a world without police). He said history is a flawed story in the afterword, and he is unfortunately adding to that and not a corrective (as with all of his other horrific work that is a whitewash of history and not a rescuer of the underclass or downtrodden).
The art isn't great, the story telling is incoherent, with bizarre tonal shifts in color to indicate flashbacks, a device that works very poorly because it's scarcely noticeable at first and becomes an irritant later. There are the good moments I mentioned above, and a few others concerning women's rights and the evil of King Cotton, but this is mostly dreck from a boring, ill educated cop sucker.
brancrisp's review
adventurous
funny
hopeful
informative
inspiring
lighthearted
mysterious
medium-paced
4.0
abookedbear's review
3.0
Thank you to Net Galley for providing me with a copy of "Better Angels: A Kate Warne Adventure" in exchange for an honest review. I was very pleased with the concept of this book because Kate Warne's story is incredibly interesting and deserves to be told. The illustrations were lovely and set the atmosphere well. The choice of words and overall writing style were authentic and also matched the era, although to be honest I found the story really hard to follow. Once I have read the book I realised how immaculate this story is, but while reading I felt little to no desire to finish it because it is written in a very draining way, which I partially blame on the fact that this book is set in 1861, when the words people used were very different in comparison to the ones we use nowadays. The book is also rather slow-paced, which is not necessarily a bad thing, I just do not like slow-paced books. Overall, some alterations can be made, but it is a nice read.