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james_desantis 's review for:
Eight Limbs
by Stephanie Phillips
I have to say I went into this without knowing a thing and came out enjoying it quite a bit.
Basically it's about a troubled girl, Mari, who has violent tendencies and no family to help her. Getting tossed around to different groups and families. Eventually she finds a family with Joanna and her husband. Jonna is a ex-Muay Thai champion. Joanna slowly helps Mari transform herself by using her anger to learn constructive fighting techniques.
But of course a big bad piece of shit comes along and feeds into Mari's insecurities till she's fighting for the wrong reasons.
My main beef with the book is how fast everything moves. Because the dialogue and characters are all top notch but the way we move into the next story beat is sometimes WAY too fast, not letting us grow with them. I wish this was a good 5-80 pages longer to expand that part of the story.
But art wise, characters, and sweet tender moments make this a lot of fun. A 3.5 but I'll bump it to a 4.
Basically it's about a troubled girl, Mari, who has violent tendencies and no family to help her. Getting tossed around to different groups and families. Eventually she finds a family with Joanna and her husband. Jonna is a ex-Muay Thai champion. Joanna slowly helps Mari transform herself by using her anger to learn constructive fighting techniques.
But of course a big bad piece of shit comes along and feeds into Mari's insecurities till she's fighting for the wrong reasons.
My main beef with the book is how fast everything moves. Because the dialogue and characters are all top notch but the way we move into the next story beat is sometimes WAY too fast, not letting us grow with them. I wish this was a good 5-80 pages longer to expand that part of the story.
But art wise, characters, and sweet tender moments make this a lot of fun. A 3.5 but I'll bump it to a 4.