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Monstress, Vol. 3: Haven by Marjorie M. Liu

3.0

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I read the first and second volumes of Monstress out of order by accident, and chalked up the difficulty following the story to that. However, I did not grant that flexibility to volume three, and I was lost often. Sometimes it was difficult to follow the action from panel to panel. (Beautiful panels, both, of course.) This story is so complexly wonderful, with so much going on, that I wish there was more simplicity in its structuring. I want to be immersed in the story, but I get confused so often that I have to slow down or stop and go back a few pages to reinterpret the panels. The information in the Professor Tam Tam lectures is dense, and I struggle to take it all in. I hope that the next volume will slow down a bit and let readers discover more organically.