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A review by oltombom
Saints by Gene Luen Yang
4.0
This was very good and very devastating. Even so, there are many humorous parts throughout. This is the second graphic novel about the Chinese Boxer Rebellion in 1899. This was when some of the Chinese people fought against the Europeans and Chinese collaborators (like Christian converts). This book is from the Chinese, Christian converts and European's side of the Boxer Rebellion (his other gn is from the Boxer side). The description of book on Goodreads makes it sound like a fairly simple pro-Christian book, but that is not the case. It is ambiguous and complex. Almost all of the European missionaries are shown in a negative light along with most of the converts as well. The main character herself is a very lukewarm convert. Like the other book, Boxers, this one has a cool spirit world side story. The book gripped me and devastated me as well.
As with the other 2 graphic novels I have read by Gene Luen Yang, this book had a very short sexist/objectifying of women part which keeps them all from getting 5 stars. I don't remember what it was now, but I remember being very disappointed when came across it. Maybe to most people they would not really notice them, but I think they are not appropriate. Hopefully in his newer books he has stopped doing that.
As with the other 2 graphic novels I have read by Gene Luen Yang, this book had a very short sexist/objectifying of women part which keeps them all from getting 5 stars. I don't remember what it was now, but I remember being very disappointed when came across it. Maybe to most people they would not really notice them, but I think they are not appropriate. Hopefully in his newer books he has stopped doing that.