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yasmin_raev's review
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.25
inheavenblue's review
dark
emotional
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
kfan's review
5.0
This is 100% the kind of book I wish I could write.
Not sure I understand all the fair-to-middlin' reviews. Is it because people are thinking of it as a graphic novel? It's not, it's a short story with illustrations.
Two awesome characters taken out of the world of comic books and put into fiction, and non-canon at that. I mean, fanfic, right?
But if I have a favorite thing to read about, it's teenage girls discovering their powers. So even though the story has a few clearly visible seams (Elektra would never have killed the dude in the beginning until the girl went back to bed, come on) there still wasn't a thing about it I didn't love.
Not sure I understand all the fair-to-middlin' reviews. Is it because people are thinking of it as a graphic novel? It's not, it's a short story with illustrations.
Two awesome characters taken out of the world of comic books and put into fiction, and non-canon at that. I mean, fanfic, right?
But if I have a favorite thing to read about, it's teenage girls discovering their powers. So even though the story has a few clearly visible seams (Elektra would never have killed the dude in the beginning until the girl went back to bed, come on) there still wasn't a thing about it I didn't love.
bronxgrrl's review
4.0
"It was a look Elektra had worn herself, a look born in another life, when she had seen her own father murdered. The memory and the emotion broke free so clean and so clear that for a moment she forgot everything else, where she was, why she was there. The girl staring at her, Elektra staring back, the dead man in the bed, and Elektra could smell the gunpowder and her father's blood as if it were yesterday."
grimread's review
2.0
I have been an Amano fan for many years now so I was really exited when I finally got the chance to acquire this book. Sadly the story and the storytelling in it is just so plain and boring. I must agree with one of the reviewers saying it reads like a bad fan fiction because it does. I expected more.
nightxade's review
3.0
While the artwork was, as expected, beautiful, but I found it to be distracting from the prose.
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