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etienne02 's review for:
Mike's Place: A True Story of Love, Blues, and Terror in Tel Aviv
by Jack Baxter, Joshua Faudem
Always hard to review a true story telling, even if it's a novel or a graphic novel, and I want to say that I don't review this tragedy or whatever happen to those people, I review the book in itself and only that.
That being said, this book was alright, not perfect, but good enough. First I like the drawing style. I also really like the ambiance that this book set. The characters, the city, everything felt so real and true and this always important and not always well done, and it's even more important when you're telling a true story of course. Where it loose some points is in the rhythm. Some part where good but some just felt a bit too long. The book could have loose a couple of page and it would still have been good, probably even better. I get that at the beginning the author put the emphasis on meeting every person so we get attach and all, but some interview or casual day live part where a bit too much for me. But that is my only minus element. A good book that deserve to be read.
Another editorial point. Keep in mind that this book present one even/tragedy on a very complex conflict, the Israeli-Palestinian one, so please don't get your knowledge on what happen there just based on this book. However which side you think is right, you have the right to your opinion, but get it and assume it from serious read or knowledge on the subject and not just on reading a graphic novel that take place there. This is a very very complex situation that can just be overlook in a book like that.
That being said, this book was alright, not perfect, but good enough. First I like the drawing style. I also really like the ambiance that this book set. The characters, the city, everything felt so real and true and this always important and not always well done, and it's even more important when you're telling a true story of course. Where it loose some points is in the rhythm. Some part where good but some just felt a bit too long. The book could have loose a couple of page and it would still have been good, probably even better. I get that at the beginning the author put the emphasis on meeting every person so we get attach and all, but some interview or casual day live part where a bit too much for me. But that is my only minus element. A good book that deserve to be read.
Another editorial point. Keep in mind that this book present one even/tragedy on a very complex conflict, the Israeli-Palestinian one, so please don't get your knowledge on what happen there just based on this book. However which side you think is right, you have the right to your opinion, but get it and assume it from serious read or knowledge on the subject and not just on reading a graphic novel that take place there. This is a very very complex situation that can just be overlook in a book like that.