eloise_bradbooks's Reviews (801)

3.5 ~ Certaines histoires bien plus intéressantes que d'autres mais l'idée est plutôt sympa (bien que pas tout a fait nouvelle).

4.5 Well this was a pure delight.
Sunshine / grumpy + fake dating trope.
It could have been eye roll worry but it worked really well.
It's also...veeeery seeexy

Really appreciated this story about staying true to yourself when that's the only thing you've been told to reject your whole life.
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August has just run away from home after discovering his parents were going to send him to conversation therapy, learning he was trans.
He finds shelter in New York with his aunt and decides to perdue his dreams as an actor.
August lives a double life with his new friends and with his family, never really being true to either side.
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Having faked who he was all his life, it is hard for him to truly be himself without being scared of what people might think. He doesn't always make the best choices, his anger can take over and his fake it til you make it technique can really drive him overboard. But that's what made him feel so real to me.
I love all the growing he does through.
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What I appreciated most were the friendships that got developed withing this story. A diverse cast of theatre kids all dealing with their own lives and impacting our Main characters in great ways.
No need to say the found family dynamics made me swoon.
All the stars go to the aunt. Power to family members who act like better parents than actual parents.
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Une succession d'entretiens de demandeurs d'asile, racontant l'histoire qui les a mené à demander la protection en France.
Évidemment il est très important de raconter leurs histoires, elles sont toutes bouleversantes.
Mais au delà de ça, la tentative de faire de ces témoignages une histoire complète avec le fil conducteur des deux auteurs qui débattent des témoignages, est un peu loupée selon moi.
Ce livre aurait très bien pu être une série de témoignages, ça n'aurait rien apporté en moins, à part nous faire gagner un peu de temps sur cet objet très lourd.
Côté dessin, la couverture est magnifique. Et j'aime beaucoup ce côté bicolore, avec des couleurs plutôt puissantes pour le sujet. Pour autant, le trait de l'artiste n'est pas dans mes goûts. J'ai trouvé difficile de lire le texte parfois même à comprendre le dessin.

4.5 / 5 ~ Before reading this I wondered how on Earth could an accidental murder be turned into a comedy and yet... This book did it perfectly.
It was funny, addictive, even romantic at times (although that part was clearly the least developed)
The centre of this book is the family dynamics. The love these women have for each other was beautiful. But it was also great to see how such love and care, especially in asian families, could be overwhelming and toxic at times, and how our main character delt with it so well.

3.5 ~ nice, pretty addictive although nothing screamed "Amazing!" at me.

2.5 ~ I guess vibes and one or two interesting characters (out of six, well, put of nine really) don't make a good story.

At first I thought this book was going to be ridiculous but it ended up being so much fun, addictive, and dealt with some really important topics (the difficulties of academia, women in STEM, sexual harassment).

Je n'ai pas trop compris l'intérêt de cette bande dessinée.
Il n'y avait pas d'histoire, on passe d'une possible histoire de deuil a une possible histoire de coming out gay, aucun n'est développé.
Une adaptation d'un roman? Il est sûrement plus approfondi, j'espère bien. Car ce format BD n'apporte vraiment rien.
Les dessins ne sont pas exceptionnels. Séverine Vidal saura faire de bien plus beaux dessins que son collègue dans ses futurs albums.

Hâte d'en apprendre un peu plus sur cette histoire d'acceptation et de l'apport d'une communauté pour une jeune personne LGBT qui a du mal à s'accepter et se fait harceler.