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whimsofmin's review
2.0
Ease of Reading: 3✨
Characters: 2✨
Plot: 2✨
Overall: 2✨
Format: Graphic Novel
Month Read: Feb 2022
Recommend: No
I wanted to like this more than I did. I saw this in the library and being half Turkish but knowing very little about Turkish history I instantly picked it up. Its also my first graphic novel (bar Simpsons comics when I was younger...).
I didn’t feel like I learnt much apart from some overarching facts about the time period and the characters were quite flat. I definitely would try a novel on this time period and also further graphic novels on other things as I’m intrigued.
Honestly the most informative interesting part of the book was the introduction.
Characters: 2✨
Plot: 2✨
Overall: 2✨
Format: Graphic Novel
Month Read: Feb 2022
Recommend: No
I wanted to like this more than I did. I saw this in the library and being half Turkish but knowing very little about Turkish history I instantly picked it up. Its also my first graphic novel (bar Simpsons comics when I was younger...).
I didn’t feel like I learnt much apart from some overarching facts about the time period and the characters were quite flat. I definitely would try a novel on this time period and also further graphic novels on other things as I’m intrigued.
Honestly the most informative interesting part of the book was the introduction.
ajkhn's review
4.0
Its very short and very episodic in a way thats not bad per se but definitely isnt what i expected. It follows a few different young people in turkey’s tumultuous 1970s in a way that feels classroom-ready. It reminds me a lot of something like Jason Lutes’ Berlin trilogy, but with so much less space the characters are necessarily thinly drawn. I would love to read more about what actual life was like - not just the political meetings and brawls, but being young and dumb and thinking youre smart in ankara in 1977.
This sounds maybe overly negative, which i dont want to be. I really loved the visuals and the candid, nonexoticized, glimpse at these lives. I basically just wish there was more of it, which is probably less about the author than it is the editor and the necessities of editing a graphic novel that doesnt have broad interest in the states.
This sounds maybe overly negative, which i dont want to be. I really loved the visuals and the candid, nonexoticized, glimpse at these lives. I basically just wish there was more of it, which is probably less about the author than it is the editor and the necessities of editing a graphic novel that doesnt have broad interest in the states.
crisppacket's review
3.0
3.5. Tries it's best to tie together a lot of different experiences but its brevity leaves it all a bit vague and confused.
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