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356 reviews for:

The Waiting

Keum Suk Gendry-Kim

4.4 AVERAGE

dark informative sad fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Loveable characters: Yes

Hay algo en las obras de Keum Suk Gendri-Kim que consigue conmoverte sin tener que recurrir al morbo.

‘La espera’ es, sin duda, uno de los libros más tristes y humanos que he leído este año.

Faltan obras como esta que no nos permitan olvidar ni los crímenes de guerra, ni a las personas que a día de hoy siguen sufriendo por culpa de la separación de Corea.

4.5
Una novela gráfica desgarradora, sé que esa palabra puede sonar cliché, pero realmente describe el sentido del relato.
Contextualiza el ambiente sociopolítico de 1950yalgo de una forma muy comprensible, donde ilustra las vivencias de miles de personas que escaparon del norte al sur en la guerra de las coreas.
dark emotional sad
challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes

A great tellin of a painful history and illustration of how family relationships are so easily sacrificed in political strife, also revealing the truth and pain of generational trauma. A wonderful, intimate graphic novel. 
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DID NOT FINISH: 19%

Only read it in the school library and now it’s summer vacation 

francy_pants's review

4.5
emotional reflective sad slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: N/A
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

Really masterful work from Gendry-Kim, who told this story with grace and the necessary weight, while still making it engaging. It was certainly thought-provoking and heavy, but there was so much humanity at the center of it---which many books about war history fail to bring out. There was also beautiful illustration work on the environments, though I did not love the style the characters were often drawn in.
adventurous dark emotional reflective 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: Complicated

Me destrozó.
challenging emotional informative sad fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: No