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cemeterygates's review
3.0
This started as a cloyingly sweet, overly saccharine story and ended dark, depressing, and soul-crushing. If you were to tell me the creator went through a divorce midway through, I wouldn't be surprised. I'm not even sure how I feel or how I'm supposed to feel, and I can't decide if that's a good thing or not. The art is gorgeous though, so it's at least worth your time taking a look.
amdame1's review
3.0
3.5 stars
Sweet and sad story. A bit of language and violence. Good for high school. Could work in middle school. Liked the illustrations, too.
Sweet and sad story. A bit of language and violence. Good for high school. Could work in middle school. Liked the illustrations, too.
jinxy's review
2.0
OMG this book was SO SAD! The artwork was amazing, but the storyline just cut me to the core.
sparkleplenty's review
4.0
Wow, the ending really got me. This started off so sweet and charming, and the illustrations were so light and lovely. It got darker and more brooding as Abelard ventured forth. It was lovely.
charliebookfanatic's review
3.0
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This is definitely an adult graphic novel. Because of the art style, which is beautiful, I thought this would be geared towards children but it talks about race and philosophy and has some crude humour that I laughed out loud at. It was completely different form what I expected, but I did think it'd have been lovely if I was able to read this in French (which I could have, but they didn't have that edition at my library). I felt like the translation took a lot of the magical feeling away from it. I thought this would be a predictable, lovely little story but the ending of this honestly took me by surprise and made me tear up a little bit. Gorgeous story with pretty artwork.
This is definitely an adult graphic novel. Because of the art style, which is beautiful, I thought this would be geared towards children but it talks about race and philosophy and has some crude humour that I laughed out loud at. It was completely different form what I expected, but I did think it'd have been lovely if I was able to read this in French (which I could have, but they didn't have that edition at my library). I felt like the translation took a lot of the magical feeling away from it. I thought this would be a predictable, lovely little story but the ending of this honestly took me by surprise and made me tear up a little bit. Gorgeous story with pretty artwork.
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