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james_desantis 's review for:
Children of the Whales, Vol. 1
by Abi Umeda
One of those trickster style books where everything seems happier than it is till shit goes down.
Except unlike Made in Abyss, this one didn't hook me emotionally. We have a group of people in basically a sand type world who find a girl and they bring her back to their village. It is ALOT of world building and to be honest the exposition dump seems endless at points and I was bored. Luckily the art itself was solid to make me finish and of course the final chapter, which is probably what most people will be talking about, is shocking and brutal. But I don't feel it was a 100% earned. Not horrible but didn't do much for me. Might check out second volume down the line.
A 2.5 out of 5.
Except unlike Made in Abyss, this one didn't hook me emotionally. We have a group of people in basically a sand type world who find a girl and they bring her back to their village. It is ALOT of world building and to be honest the exposition dump seems endless at points and I was bored. Luckily the art itself was solid to make me finish and of course the final chapter, which is probably what most people will be talking about, is shocking and brutal. But I don't feel it was a 100% earned. Not horrible but didn't do much for me. Might check out second volume down the line.
A 2.5 out of 5.