Review also posted to my blog.


1) Saga, Vol. 1 ★★★★
2) Saga, Vol. 2 ★★★★
3) Saga, Vol. 3 ★★★★★
4) Saga, Vol. 4 ★★★★


content warnings: violence, gore, murder, references to domestic violence, graphic sexual content, drug usage, overdose, use of the r-word
representation: main and side characters of colour, main interracial relationship, side bisexual character of colour


“Parents give up so much: time, sleep, freedom, money, intimacy… pretty much everything but complaining about how much they sacrifice.”


I don't know why this surprised me, but I'm really enjoying the volumes that are slower and more character-focused. This one in particular was fantastic.

This volume has a lot of focus on parents; the love that they have for their children, the sacrifices they'll make, the lengths they'll go to in order to keep them safe. I don't know, something about that thread connecting all the different storylines just really hit me in a way I didn't expect. Hell, it even made me care about the robot-people, something which I never really have (I'm sure they have an actual name but I don't remember what it is).

The end of this was like a gut punch. There's lots of tragedy in this volume to go along with the general grotesqueness of this series with a few deaths from significant characters and suffering for all the other characters.

Honestly, the only thing about this volume that I didn't like is that there was no Izabel. The rest was fantastic and I'm even more pissed at my library for screwing up my holds so I can't continue to volume 6 yet.