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Bezig met laden... The Night Eaters: She Eats the Night (2022)door Marjorie M. Liu, Sana Takeda (Illustrations)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. gorgeous illustrations and super intriguing premise. the twins are so lovable and funny and i am Obsessed with their parents. really solid horror and gore level too ( ) Series Info/Source: This is the first book in the She Eats the Night trilogy. I got this as a birthday gift. Thoughts: I thoroughly enjoyed the first book in this new graphic novel series by Liu and Takeda. The story is humorous and horrific all that once and the illustration is stunningly beautiful. Milly and Billy are twins trying to keep their restaurant business going through the pandemic. Luckily their parents, Ipo and Keon, are in town to help with things. Ipo (their mother) is strangely obsessed with plants and also determined to solve the mystery of the creepy abandoned house across the street. When Ipo decides to teach her kids a lesson about caring for plants by making them help her clear out the creepy house, things go sideways. Milly and Billy quickly (and violently) learn that neither their parents or themselves are what they thought they were. This was a fun story about family and mysterious pasts that is incredibly entertaining. I loved that Milly and Billy were just normal young adults trying to get through life and then their parents reveal all these crazy secrets. Some of the twists and turns in here were truly unexpected and I really enjoyed this. The story touches a lot on family and immigration and the struggles of past generations compared to the struggles of present generations. Of course, there is also a good dose of creepiness and supernatural horror in here as well. The hardcover book itself is beautiful quality with nice thick paper. The illustration is amazing as always; with beautifully detailed drawings and deep rich colors. This was as much of a joy to look at, as it was to read. My Summary (5/5): Overall I really loved this first book in The Night Eaters series and am eagerly awaiting "Her Little Reapers", which is planned to release in Oct 2023. This is a wonderful humorous supernatural horror read, that starts out pretty normal and ends up a bit crazy with some huge twists and turns. If you are looking for a great new fun horror graphic novel series to read, I would definitely recommend this. An impressive start to what promises to be an exciting series. The storytelling is assured; it is refresshing to find a graphic work that doesn't feel the need to lay out its story in a lock-step narrative. Here, the characters go away and do other things connected with the narrative and then re-appear. Sometimes they hint at what they were doing, sometimes they explain, sometimes they don't. The thing that surprised me was just how funny the story is; there is an absurdist sense of human failing that often mixes with sharp commentary about identity that builds up a strong sense of the world. It is also used to calculated effect; in one instance there is a hilarious scene where the mother has a showdown in the restaurant with the twins, and the customers are cheering the twins on with comments about how terrible it would be to have a mother like that. Ipo is coming across as the stereotypical tiger mom, but as we come to find out, she is actually mostly correct about the messed up lives of her kids. It bugs me that by publishing convention Liu is referred to as the author and Takeda as the illustrator. You can't imagine this story withont either one. The color palette here is distinctive although it hearkens back to their "Monstress" work. Particularly effective is the way Takeda draws the grown-up twins as still very childlike, which is appropriate. She also presents their reactions to events in extreme, often melodramatic ways, as if they are toddlers pitching a tanty. Which, again, makes sense given the narrative. I'm not a big fan of the tendency to over-do the sound-effects in the panels, which is reminiscent of the worst of the "Pow! Wham!" style of traditional comics. However, what saved this for me was that Takeda seems to use these as a vehicle for making the words themseves illustrations, sometimes to the point where it is difficult to make out what the sound-effect is actually supposed to be. It is creattive, but it still may be overkill, and it sometimes takes away from the effectively moody and cryptic style of some of the panels. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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"Chinese American twins, Milly and Billy, are having a tough time. On top of the multiple failures in their personal and professional lives, they're struggling to keep their restaurant afloat. Luckily their parents, Ipo and Keon, are in town for their annual visit. Having immigrated from Hong Kong before the twins were born, Ipo and Keon have supported their children through thick and thin and are ready to lend a hand--but they're starting to wonder, has their support made Milly and Billy incapable of standing on their own? When Ipo forces them to help her clean up the house next door--a hellish and run-down ruin that was the scene of a grisly murder--the twins are in for a nasty surprise. A night of terror, gore, and supernatural mayhem reveals that there is much more to Ipo and her children than meets the eye."--Cover jacket. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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