eloise_bradbooks's Reviews (801)

Roman graphique regroupant des témoignages sur le harcèlement de rue et le sexisme ordinaire, frappants et témoignant d'une réalité dégueulasse de la société dont on ne discute toujours pas assez.

Les pages de fin sont elles aussi très importantes, écrites par des groupes/associations/militant-e-s contre le harcèlement de rue. Des conseils sur comment réagir selon notre situation face au harcèlement et d'autres informations qu'on peut trouver sur le sujet (notamment des liens vers des blogs ou sites créés sur le sujet).

L'idée de représenter tous les hommes en tant que crocodiles, mêmes ceux qui ne se comportent pas en tant qu'agresseurs dans le livre est souvent critiqué mais est bien justifié à la fin.

Finalement, le livre, comme il nous l'est rappelé de nombreuses fois dans les pages de fin, est le point de vue de femmes, le harcèlement de rue que subissent les femmes. Il demande à tous lecteur, qu'importe son genre, de ce mettre dans le point de vue des femmes pour comprendre pourquoi elles peuvent se sentir ml dans la rue. Et oui, c'est splendide qu'on en parle. Je vais partager le livre autour de moi.
Maaaaaais. Oui, je dois dire que j'aurais bien aimé voir rien qu'une petite fois au moins, une victime de harcèlement qui n'était pas une femme?
Je comprends que c'est le point de vue des femmes qu'on essaie de mettre en avant ici (et bravo, on a besoin d'en voir plus souvent), mais je trouve que l'opportunité de dénoncer le fait que n'importe qui peut être victime de harcèlement, qu'importe son genre, est passé à la trappe.

+ Dernière petit fait que je dois ajouter :
J'étais ravie de voir plusieurs fois des femmes en couple avec d'autres femmes dans ce livre.

Un roman graphique très intéressant témoignant de ce qu'on du éprouver les cambodgiens en 1975.
Ce premier tome est très informatif sur la situation, mais les sentiments restent à être approfondis.
Je ne tarde pas à lire le prochain tome pour en découvrir plus.

2.5
Plutôt rapide à lire, l'idée est sympa et on finit par tenir aux personnages (certains).
C'est juste bourré de choses qu'on a déjà vu, de développement sans surprise et de personnages sans profondeur dans un univers où il y a le bien, le mal, et aucun entre deux. Ça n'est juste pas intéressant à mes yeux.

When I read Nikita Gill's other poetry book Your Soul Is A River, I found some poems beautiful and others simply unrelatable to me. I realised poetry is relative and some poems may touch some poeple and not others.
Wild Embers' poems were All. So. Touching. to me.
Empoyering

UGH. I can't believe I read this issue.
Since it got the get-go to be on on going series I decided I'd wait til more issues were out before getting them and reading them all at once because EACH ISSUE IS TOO SHORT!
But I. Could. Not. Resist.
So here I am, just like the previous issues, angry because I didn't get enough out of it.
I don't really know how to rate these snippets...
Will I resist February's issue?
Place your bets.

A very enjoyable read.
It it was nice to see a gradually developed ya story that has light elements of sci-fi - not too complicated but still interesting.
The relationships were nicely built, the plot points flowed well, the characters were enjoyable to read about.
The the last action sequence was a little underwhelming, however this isn't the end of the story and I can't wait to pick up book number two so bring it on.

Remember Inej in the very last chapter of Crooked Kingdom? Through Pekkas POV: dark, determined, ready to avenge the people who hurt her and her friends? Slipping in the shadows and handling knives as if they were part of her body? Hmm yes.

Meet Mia Corvere:
A 16 year old girl, alone, with no one to talk to but the dark shadows around her and a cat (...who was not a cat...) who takes her fears away. Her family was murdered in front of her when she was a kid so she decides to become an apprentice assassin in order to avenge her family.
How. Cool. Does that sound???

'Byss and blood I reeeally liked this book. It took some time to get into, I'll admit that. The beginning was a little difficult to read (although very clever imo) with different types of writing and a loooot of footnotes but that aspect gets easier to deal with as we go along.
Once we got to the actual assassin lessons, with fellow acolytes, murder, blood, sweat and a few tears, THAT was when it got great.

The characters grew on me. DON'T GET ATTACHED i told myself in vain... I ended up loving more than a couple of them...
O Daughters, the pain...

Some of the plot-twists were great, a couple didn't surprise me that much, another I wondered why only a 16 yo trainee saw coming and not the whole room of teaching assassins..?

But in the end what came out of this for me was a strong introduction to an amazing world with brilliant characters. We've only seen a tiny amount of what this story is ready to offer and I am in dire need of MORE.
Please? Please just release Book 2 early. Thank you.

So... nothing about this book was bad, it's Shaun David Hutchinson.
But to be honest I felt more emotions when the book mentioned characters from Shaun's other books than I was when the characters from this book did anything.

Here's what I think:
Shaun David Hutchinson always has a powerful, thought-provoking way of writing. Topics such as friendship, mental health, abuse, suicide, racial gender and sexual diversity are always brilliantly woven into his books. And I appreciated that in this book too (cuban MC, muslim best-friend, girls in love, the word bisexual proudly used and never questioned, mention of a trans character, and a questioning ace, YAY!).
Oh, and also teenagers having to deal with saving the world apparently ("It's always the end of the world, isn't it?").

Anyone who has also read and loved any other book by SDH must have been pleasently surprised to see characters from those books pop up in this one. I felt so many emotions in that hospital scene!!!! I even found myself counting and looking forward to the next reference (as shown in my progress comments).
And then I realised that was just it: I cared more about unimportant things than the actual plot and characters I was meant to care about.

I didn't feel particularly attached to the characters. Even though there clearly was depth to each character, not many were likeable.
Didn't like the love interest who was selfish and not very loveable towards Elena; the ex-boyfriend was a creep; family could have been interesting but we only focused on the one guy who doesn't deserve a story.
The one redeeming character is Elena's best friend Fadil. Their friendship was great to witness but at the same time I would have loved more of them and their feelings for each other. MORE OF THEM! Less of all the rest that felt quite bland and made this 400 page book feel reeeeeeally long.
And our main character? Well... I didn't feel like we got much out of her.

Elena didn't feel rushed to do anything, and most of the book was just her questioning wat was going on and if she should do something about it (but not really trying to dig to find answers), and all the people around her telling her how she should deal with this incredibly important issue (which didn't feel *that* important).
And just when I thought we were getting to an interesting part, the book ended.

Because of that, I didn't have that urge to read "one more" every time I finished chapter, and in my opinion, that's the way I should feel when reading a book I enjoy.

As I said at the beginning, in no way is this book bad.
It's a character-driven slowly built story that makes you think about life, just like Shaun David Hutchinson does is We Are The Ants. THAT book however, makes you feel for the characters and their own stories and shows more development and love and feeling than The Apocalypse Of Elena Mendoza did for me.

Sexual allegations. Don't support.
Book had many faults anyway, but as an author and a person, wouldn't give this guy any respect.

Wow that was cute.
There was more smut than i'd first expected but actually, it was so well done. All the discussions about gender and dysphoria and respect in sexual activities despite dysphoria... All of that was beautiful and a great example of how to act and react.
The two characters are at different places in their gender discovery but they are so good for each other, helping each other and simply loving each other in the best possible way.
You can't help but smile and laugh and be super happy for these great people.