eloise_bradbooks's Reviews (801)

It was wonderful to read a middle grade story about a young girl going through depression and anxiety : seeing her go through therapy, taking medicine, showing us exactly how that feels.
It makes this important subject very accessible, especially to a younger audience, with characters you completely understand and feel for.
Bonus points for also delving into gender expression, homosexuality and struggles of separated parents.

Une BD qui présente le parcours d'une réfugiée pendant sa grossesse.
Évidemment c'est important de voir des témoignages sur ce sujet. Cependant pour un récit qui veut montrer la difficulté de prise en charge de la grossesse en étant réfugiée, j'ai trouvé qu'il manquait qqch. Je n'ai pas autant compris tout le parcours qu'elle a du traverser, j'ai eu l'impression qu'il me manquait encore des éléments pour vraiment être impliquée et suivre avec émotion son histoire.

3.5 ~ This book had some great elements to it :
- confident fat black girl representation, while dealing with how being a fat black girl affects her in her daily life;
- brother/sister love;
- platonic love that is just as important as romance;
- learning to step away from toxic people, even if those people are family members.

Despite all this greatness, I wasn't as into this book as I'd hoped.
In all honesty I think the audiobook narrator played a big role in me not enjoying my reading time. She wasn't particularly bad, but her very monotone voice just didn't make me feel all the emotions I should have and made me zone out a few times...
I don't say this often but I'd love to go back in time and choose to not audiobook this one.

I still highly recommend this book!
After really appreciating seeing myself in Claire Kann's other book Let's Talk About Love, I know that I will find some pieces of my soul in every book she will bring out. And I can't wait to discover more.

I'm not sure I can rate this rn as I feel overall quite conflicted...
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I love myth retellings and this one seems to be pretty well done with very contemporary elements added to it which I enjoyed. It was also quite funny at times. The original webtoon format means it will be quite long and allow us to get to know the characters in depth (I hope).
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The art in some ways is really nice, and in others ways ... Meh. I just don't like how the women/goddesses are drawn (the biggest boobs and bum, tiniest waist, holding themselves in ways that make then seem unreal and oversexualised tbh).
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I also felt quite unconfortable reading about what seems to be a complicated relationship between two people who clearly aren't on the same level. Our very young and therefore somewhat naive main character falling for a very old and very powerful god? It really doesn't give off a good vibes so far and feels uncomfortable to read.
Let alone the universe of this story revolves around very misogynistic powerful men who do whatever they please (as it is true to the original myths ...).
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I hope and think my issues will be acknowledged and dealt with in a better way as it goes along, but if I'm judging on this first volume, I'm left unsure and unconfortable.

Troisième tome (première tome du deuxième cycle) de cette saga et je suis tout aussi envoûtée que la première.
Je n'ai qu'une envie c'est de lire la suite !

3.5 ~ I guess I enjoyed it? I think it's a case of hyped book that didn't quite live up to my expectations.
It took a while to get into, to really identify and differenciate our two main characters. I didn't reeeeally feel any incredible feelings towards it but the more I read the more I was into it.
I am curious to see how the second book will plan out!

I really enjoyed this middle grade story, high in emotions.
I appreciated how it dealt with gender expectations through the POV of a person whose gender regularly switches (Ash doesn't like to use a specific label for their gender) and a boy whose emotions can be overwhelming for him.
I guess the whole dog part and romance was sweet but clearly what shines here is more the characters feelings and how to overcome societal gender expectations to live truthfully and happily.

I must add a small detail I found a little disturbing about the audiobook: Daniel's voicea ctor sounded compter generated... And that through me off quite a bit at first, took some getting used to.

Comment repérer un manipulateur, sortir d'une relation toxique, et se reconstruire par la suite.
Voilà tout ce que nous présente brillamment Sophie Lambda, en se basant sur son vécu et des recherches clairement bien poussées sur le sujet.

De plus, pour une autodidacte, les dessins et la mise en forme des planches est vraiment impressionnante.
La BD arrive à rester drôle tout en évoquant un sujet difficile et important. Un gros boulot est également apporté sur la fin pour une analyse approfondie des relations avec une personne manipulatrice.

Je dirai même que le livre vire un peu sur le "trop long", avec des éléments qui semblent un peu répétitifs vers la fin.
Puisque Sophie analyse les relations manipulatives(manipulatoires?) en se basant sur son propre récit, on revient sur des parties de son histoire que l'on a déjà vu quelques (centaines de) pages auparavant. Pourtant, l'histoire est racontée de telle sorte à ce que l'on comprenne déjà très bien le cheminement d'un manipulateur, comment le reconnaître et s'en débarrasser. L'analyse à la fin ne vient que répéter, ou expliquer l'histoire comme si on était trop bête pour ne pas l'avoir compris avec l'histoire (j'exagère un peu, tout de même).

Tant pis pour l'amour reste une bande dessinée très bien construite, qui va aider beaucoup de personnes et qui mérite d'être lue par le monde entier.

TJR is a great author, who knows how to make us care quite a lot and feel all the feels.
I could feel like One True Loves was GOOD but this one just wasn't so much for me.

A difficult but brilliantly told tale of monsters within humans.

Patrick Ness vibes, matter-of-fact great rep (trans MC, all black cast).
Deals with difficult subjects as a family member is hurting a child.
TW: implied paedophilia, implied incest, violence, description of a cut & blood.