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aardwyrm 's review for:
Sailor Twain: Or: The Mermaid in the Hudson
by Mark Siegel
adventurous
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Interesting to look at, with art that skitters wildly between elegant, impressionistic inkwash, near-realism, and crude cartooning. That is, unfortunately, all it has going for it. It's a graphic novel, so that's not nothing! But the plot is just proof that no matter what your genre, you can write a tedious middle aged man who thinks infidelity is a personality. There's nothing the story is actually about but tedious heterosexual adultery, and it's tragically sure that's as good as a plot. And to cap it all, a tragic saintly disabled wife narrative, just in case you wanted to be sympathetic.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Ableism, Confinement, Death, Gore, Infidelity, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Murder, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, Classism