A review by wordwilderness
Monstress, Vol. 1: Awakening by Marjorie Liu

dark tense fast-paced

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

4.5

I really enjoyed reading this! Definitely a good introduction to graphic novels. Can’t wait to read the rest of the series!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism, Child death, Death, Blood, Gore, and Torture

Minor: Rape, Sexual violence, and Cursing

Since this is a graphic novel, some images depict gore, death, cannibalism etc.. (I put the CW that are on page/shown in images in the graphic category).