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O Human Star, Volume One by Blue Delliquanti
2.75
hopeful mysterious slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes

For this volume alone (chapters 1-3), I rate 3 stars.

The first volume follows an robotics inventor -Alistair - who dies and is revived 16 years later in a synthetic mind and body. He is told his former business partner - Brendan - revived him, but his former business partner has no idea what is happening. After their initial reunion and some conflict, the business partner begins investigating the mystery. The story jumps between the present plot and flashbacks of Alistair and Brendan's past. Queer and trans rep too!

This is setting up for a good story, but I found it a very boring and slow start with lots of dialogue and scenes that I wasn't particularly interested in. The art is beautiful and moments between characters are tender, but the condensed nature makes it hard to really feel the characters and their relationships and they feel partially underdeveloped. This begins to improve towards the end of the volume and a plot is introduced for one particular character that I thought had more life.