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kaiyakaiyo 's review for:
Water Moon
by Samantha Sotto Yambao
adventurous
dark
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
this was really underwhelming.
the world-building had a lot of potential, but was so poorly organized that it just felt like a bunch of pretty locations cobbled together. this is the second time in a few months that I’ve compared a book’s world building to a Coraline-style other mother universe, complete with the eerie white space between the fleshed out parts.
the characters were sweet, but I didn’t find myself very invested in them, or really understanding their motives without a lot of telling vs showing. The haphazard narrative and constant timeline switches & flashbacks & imagination sequences didn’t help.
i think this could have been a really pretty limited animated series, but in written form it felt simultaneously too episodic and incoherent
the world-building had a lot of potential, but was so poorly organized that it just felt like a bunch of pretty locations cobbled together. this is the second time in a few months that I’ve compared a book’s world building to a Coraline-style other mother universe, complete with the eerie white space between the fleshed out parts.
the characters were sweet, but I didn’t find myself very invested in them, or really understanding their motives without a lot of telling vs showing. The haphazard narrative and constant timeline switches & flashbacks & imagination sequences didn’t help.
i think this could have been a really pretty limited animated series, but in written form it felt simultaneously too episodic and incoherent
Content Warnings
Graphic: Blood, Grief, Abandonment
Moderate: Death of parent
Minor: Child abuse, Child death