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coolkatzz 's review for:
Wires and Nerve, Volume 1
by Marissa Meyer
That was disappointing if I'm to be completely honest. Not the storyline, I felt it was matured very well, and I was *hooked* the entire time. However, I have to say, I really just wasn't feeling the art style. I'd read two of Doug Holgate's middle grade books before, and they were cheesy, and the art matched the storyline. Now, not that I don't like Doug Holgate's art style, it simply didn't work for this book. None of the characters looked as I'd imagined them, and I don't feel that they were captured as well as in the book. How the characters looked strayed too much. They looked very old, yet also very young in the illustrations provided in this novel. I did like the action scenes, and those were drawn very well. It felt like a movie was playing in my head, and all the special thingys that Doug Holgate added were on point.
I loved following Iko. Iko was my absolute favorite character in the Lunar Chronicles series, although I still love Scarlet. She provides a comic relief without simply being the comedic character, and still adds a lot to the story, and is a very complex character. Furthermore, I enjoy how she struggles with being an android, and how she's looked down for it. The flashbacks of her and Peony and Cinder were simply too much to bear for me, and I shed a few tears. Of course, in our time, we don't have androids of this level, so it is not an issue yet, but the consciousness of machines has plagued scientists as AI continues to grow and develop. I love how Marissa Meyer promotes equality among everyone, even those who aren't human. I am interested in seeing how flawed personality chips lets androids have their own thoughts and actions. I do have a feeling that Marissa Meyer will delve more deeply into this in the second book.
So while I didn't love the art style, and how the characters were portrayed, I still highly enjoyed following Iko along in her crazy adventures as she travels the globe!
I loved following Iko. Iko was my absolute favorite character in the Lunar Chronicles series, although I still love Scarlet. She provides a comic relief without simply being the comedic character, and still adds a lot to the story, and is a very complex character. Furthermore, I enjoy how she struggles with being an android, and how she's looked down for it. The flashbacks of her and Peony and Cinder were simply too much to bear for me, and I shed a few tears. Of course, in our time, we don't have androids of this level, so it is not an issue yet, but the consciousness of machines has plagued scientists as AI continues to grow and develop. I love how Marissa Meyer promotes equality among everyone, even those who aren't human. I am interested in seeing how flawed personality chips lets androids have their own thoughts and actions. I do have a feeling that Marissa Meyer will delve more deeply into this in the second book.
So while I didn't love the art style, and how the characters were portrayed, I still highly enjoyed following Iko along in her crazy adventures as she travels the globe!