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A review by alexampersand
Chernobyl: The Fall of Atomgrad by Matyáš Namai
3.0
Unfortunately this didn't really work for me. I loved the concept, and there were parts that were very effective - the section about the animals, and the sparseness of people having to collect minimal belongings were truly heartwrenching.
But overall I found the brevity and surface-skimming to be quite off putting; the text just felt like reading an essay broken down into singular sentences, and the lack of a personal narrative felt like it missed some of the depth it could have reached. I also found the art style to be quite distracting, sometimes being so detailed with so many intricate lines that I found it difficult to follow along in parts.
It was a really interesting read to learn more about how Chernobyl came about, and the blame-shifting, but I came away feeling unsatisfied, like maybe it needed to be twice as long (or I just need to go away and do some further reading) to feel like it covered the scope of the situation.
But overall I found the brevity and surface-skimming to be quite off putting; the text just felt like reading an essay broken down into singular sentences, and the lack of a personal narrative felt like it missed some of the depth it could have reached. I also found the art style to be quite distracting, sometimes being so detailed with so many intricate lines that I found it difficult to follow along in parts.
It was a really interesting read to learn more about how Chernobyl came about, and the blame-shifting, but I came away feeling unsatisfied, like maybe it needed to be twice as long (or I just need to go away and do some further reading) to feel like it covered the scope of the situation.