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motherofmars 's review for:
Monstress, Vol. 1: Awakening
by Marjorie M. Liu
I just want to say that whoever was lauding this graphic novel as being a “sapphic” graphic novel online when I Googled it… one single page of “representation” in a 200 page graphic novel between two side characters does not make the wlw representation in this book good or substantive at all, and I’m upset I wasted my time because the story wasn’t even worth reading for all the horrific violence. Oh, not to mention how some of the villains were drawn versus how the protagonists were drawn. Being fat or not meeting conventional beauty standards ≠ bad/evil. Disappointing all around. The one star is for the cats, and the fox child. I didn’t enjoy anything else.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Ableism, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Gore, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Trafficking, War, Injury/Injury detail