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A review by kenyuen1
Monstress, Vol. 1: Awakening by Marjorie Liu
5.0
I was warned that this book would be violent, and man was it. The body count and body horror was genuinely affecting.
However, the world building is top notch. The art was fantastic. It's a lot to take in, but I definitely want to read more.
It's intriguing how there's humans, and then there's the sentient animal species. That's part of the horror, what if humans treated sentient animals the way they do animals now. It's gross and uncomfortable and the human villains don't treat each other very much better. Seems like there's some cosmic horror too?
There's cute stuff too. The cats are sentient and they have multiple tails like mystical Japanese foxes. The cat characters are super cool, there's one big grey one with scars and an eye patch and two swords. So cool. There's also a fox kid who's cute.
Merged review:
I was warned that this book would be violent, and man was it. The body count and body horror was genuinely affecting.
However, the world building is top notch. The art was fantastic. It's a lot to take in, but I definitely want to read more.
It's intriguing how there's humans, and then there's the sentient animal species. That's part of the horror, what if humans treated sentient animals the way they do animals now. It's gross and uncomfortable and the human villains don't treat each other very much better. Seems like there's some cosmic horror too?
There's cute stuff too. The cats are sentient and they have multiple tails like mystical Japanese foxes. The cat characters are super cool, there's one big grey one with scars and an eye patch and two swords. So cool. There's also a fox kid who's cute.
However, the world building is top notch. The art was fantastic. It's a lot to take in, but I definitely want to read more.
It's intriguing how there's humans, and then there's the sentient animal species. That's part of the horror, what if humans treated sentient animals the way they do animals now. It's gross and uncomfortable and the human villains don't treat each other very much better. Seems like there's some cosmic horror too?
There's cute stuff too. The cats are sentient and they have multiple tails like mystical Japanese foxes. The cat characters are super cool, there's one big grey one with scars and an eye patch and two swords. So cool. There's also a fox kid who's cute.
Merged review:
I was warned that this book would be violent, and man was it. The body count and body horror was genuinely affecting.
However, the world building is top notch. The art was fantastic. It's a lot to take in, but I definitely want to read more.
It's intriguing how there's humans, and then there's the sentient animal species. That's part of the horror, what if humans treated sentient animals the way they do animals now. It's gross and uncomfortable and the human villains don't treat each other very much better. Seems like there's some cosmic horror too?
There's cute stuff too. The cats are sentient and they have multiple tails like mystical Japanese foxes. The cat characters are super cool, there's one big grey one with scars and an eye patch and two swords. So cool. There's also a fox kid who's cute.