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wanderlustlover 's review for:
Monstress, Vol. 3: Haven
by Marjorie M. Liu
Summer 2019 (Hugo Award Nominee 2019 - Graphic Novel);
(3.5)
Copying this part from reading Volume 2 yesterday, as it hasn't changed -- I still want to give this series four hundred stars just for the art (and it is part of why even with a 3.5 I went up rather than down). It's just so gorgeous. I have a very judgey aesthetic need where it comes to art, and 90% of the time comics will never reach it (and even a perfect story I will dock a star from for that because this is a conglomeration between a visual media and a written one).
First and foremost I realized the inner narration of our Halfwolf moved from being the daughter addressing her dead mother and moved into her addressing Tuya. To discussing and addressing a different amalgam of emotions through those narrations much along the way of remorse, regret, and lingering love (especially as shown through the memories and dreams).
I continue to like changeable and uncertain nature of 'The Betrayer' who keeps being told they did things in the past they refuse they ever did, making us question what all it does remember, has forgotten, and how reliable it is or isn't when it speaks, where is aspires to, and what the actual ends of this painful partnership between may honestly be leading.
I still think there are maybe too many characters, and that there definitely are too many female characters with long black hair and half-shown faces, making it confusing and giving it a little too much ease to confuse those ones. I am definitely still here for the rest of this entire story from its beginning to end.
(3.5)
Copying this part from reading Volume 2 yesterday, as it hasn't changed -- I still want to give this series four hundred stars just for the art (and it is part of why even with a 3.5 I went up rather than down). It's just so gorgeous. I have a very judgey aesthetic need where it comes to art, and 90% of the time comics will never reach it (and even a perfect story I will dock a star from for that because this is a conglomeration between a visual media and a written one).
First and foremost I realized the inner narration of our Halfwolf moved from being the daughter addressing her dead mother and moved into her addressing Tuya. To discussing and addressing a different amalgam of emotions through those narrations much along the way of remorse, regret, and lingering love (especially as shown through the memories and dreams).
I continue to like changeable and uncertain nature of 'The Betrayer' who keeps being told they did things in the past they refuse they ever did, making us question what all it does remember, has forgotten, and how reliable it is or isn't when it speaks, where is aspires to, and what the actual ends of this painful partnership between may honestly be leading.
I still think there are maybe too many characters, and that there definitely are too many female characters with long black hair and half-shown faces, making it confusing and giving it a little too much ease to confuse those ones. I am definitely still here for the rest of this entire story from its beginning to end.