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A review by dandelionsteph
An Army of Frogs by Trevor Pryce
4.0
It was certainly below my reading level, but enjoyable.
My biggest criticism is the different levels of realism applied to the animal characters. The frogs are reasonably realistic, for the most part. (Though less so for the tadpoles) Yet, the scorpions look more physiologically distorted than the frogs, almost as if they're scorpion-esque monsters rather than scorpions. The spiders are even worse: Queen Jarrah is the only one depicted, and she looks more like some bizarre elfin spider-centaur than a reasonably realistic spider. I understand giving them humanlike proportions makes it easier to imagine them carrying weapons and building humanlike objects, but Jarrah's design took anthropomorphization to an unreasonable degree. It's as if the artist was barely familiar with what spiders looked like.
My biggest criticism is the different levels of realism applied to the animal characters. The frogs are reasonably realistic, for the most part. (Though less so for the tadpoles) Yet, the scorpions look more physiologically distorted than the frogs, almost as if they're scorpion-esque monsters rather than scorpions. The spiders are even worse: Queen Jarrah is the only one depicted, and she looks more like some bizarre elfin spider-centaur than a reasonably realistic spider. I understand giving them humanlike proportions makes it easier to imagine them carrying weapons and building humanlike objects, but Jarrah's design took anthropomorphization to an unreasonable degree. It's as if the artist was barely familiar with what spiders looked like.