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juushikaFinally caught up with (most of) my backlog. Finally, theoretically, will stop flooding reading lists with old book reviews. I'd like to endeavor to stay on top of crossposting these, post per book instead of in roundups (with exceptions) for tagging reasons, and also a dozen other resolutions I'm sure, but those two at least seem reasonable.
Title: Daughters of Snow and Cinders (La louve boréale)
Author: Núria Tamarit
Translator: Jenna Allen
Published: Fantagraphics Books, 2023 (2022)
Rating: 3 of 5
Page Count: 215
Total Page Count: 526,815
Text Number: 1928
Read Because: browsing graphic novels shelf at..., paperback borrowed from the Timberland Regional Library
Review: A young woman follows a goldrush expedition after they leave without her, journeying into distant woods. This is breathtaking: rich colors with such depth, vibrant royal purples and blues, textured shadows and pale snows and the vivid warm tones of blood and fire. It's one of the most beautiful graphic novels I've ever read. Tamarit gives her characters distinguishing injuries and birthmarks that combat same face syndrome and introduce a lot of, well, character.
It's narrative that struggles, here. The overland journey is slow and contemplative and shadowed by danger; it's a compelling tone. But the themes of environmentalism and anticolonialism, however well-intended, have no nuance, offering only repetitive, unproductive messaging: all men are dangerous, humans are a blight on the land, etc. Such a letdown in such a gorgeous work.
Title: Daughters of Snow and Cinders (La louve boréale)
Author: Núria Tamarit
Translator: Jenna Allen
Published: Fantagraphics Books, 2023 (2022)
Rating: 3 of 5
Page Count: 215
Total Page Count: 526,815
Text Number: 1928
Read Because: browsing graphic novels shelf at..., paperback borrowed from the Timberland Regional Library
Review: A young woman follows a goldrush expedition after they leave without her, journeying into distant woods. This is breathtaking: rich colors with such depth, vibrant royal purples and blues, textured shadows and pale snows and the vivid warm tones of blood and fire. It's one of the most beautiful graphic novels I've ever read. Tamarit gives her characters distinguishing injuries and birthmarks that combat same face syndrome and introduce a lot of, well, character.
It's narrative that struggles, here. The overland journey is slow and contemplative and shadowed by danger; it's a compelling tone. But the themes of environmentalism and anticolonialism, however well-intended, have no nuance, offering only repetitive, unproductive messaging: all men are dangerous, humans are a blight on the land, etc. Such a letdown in such a gorgeous work.
