A review by tiffany_aching99
The Motherless Oven by Rob Davis

5.0

This graphic novel accepts the darkness we live in denial, like the way we use our parents. We are drawn into this world by its striking symbolism the moment the daggers hit the page. Lines taken out of context are poetic, humorous and novel. The world as we know it is turned upside down to mean mundane lifeless household objects can talk and are worshipped like gods. The world “natural” is an archaic term because in this world people think all creation is manmade. It is a world of accepted tragedy, fate and destiny. We become a part of this as we accept this world’s quirks when nothing is ever explained to us. The reader cannot question. Children create their parents, but no one remembers that. So how do we really know the truth? And are our lives predestined, or is this world not so different to our own? Do all the characters create their own self fulfilling prophecy? “Is truth like a story, something you can only possess when you pass through it? A thing that can’t be owned by time.”

The characters themselves are something special. I could spend the review just talking about them, but, spoilers!! I have said enough. Now go out there, and read it!