Beautiful Darkness
Ratings39
Average rating3.8
This book is a force of nature where it is beautiful and terrifying at the same time. Each page had something surprising and the illustrations made a lasting impression on me. On the back of the book one of the reviews said something to the extent of ‘read it outside for maximum effect' and I couldn't agree more! ~Ashley
me gusta mucho el contraste de las ilustraciones y el tono de algunas escenas, mi opinión no es muy objetiva por esta razón.
me hubiese gustado leerlo sin saber de que trataba, me hice muchas expectativas que no se cumplieron pero el libro no tiene la culpa de eso, si les llama la atención no lean nada antes, vayan a ciegas, es importante el factor sorpresa
igual es una lectura corta, no dejaría de recomendarla y me dieron ganas de leer más cosas de los autores
The book captivated me from the beginning and I couldn't stop reading. I don't know how much would be considered a spoiler, so I'll skip the parts that I am glad to not have seen coming (although I've seen a lot of reviews include full pages of the book without marking it as spoiler).
You follow a group of little girls who suddenly find themselves in a forest under mysterious circumstances, while their little lives go from carefree to really really dark and twisted.
The contrast of a beautiful watercolor with horrific imagery is one of the things that I like about this book, even though many things are intentionally left unclear. I do feel like a lot of the allegory went over my head (I'm not very good with symbolism) and some of the stuff deeply disturbed me, yet it didn't ruin my overall enjoyment.
Not sure what to make of this one. The art was certainly gorgeous, and I liked the darkness of the tale. However, it seemed to lack a cohesive plot, and I was left with too many questions.
I don't think anything I've read for RIP this year has felt as perfect for the challenge as this slim graphic novel. This is Lord of the Flies in a fairy-tale world, it is eerie and creepy and unsettling and challenging. This is much less about the plot and much more about the layers of horror, unwrapping before the readers' eyes. This is a gorgeous piece of art, wrapped around a completely terrifying story.
Like all good graphic novels, there is much to uncover behind the first glance, and this is the type of story than can be read many times, with the reader finding something new upon each subsequent visit to this dark world. I know I'm being vague, but part of the impact of the story, for me, was not knowing very much about what I was getting into when I started. More than anything I've read in the past couple of months, this is the book that has stayed in my mind, lingering in my thoughts, popping up in my dreams. It's good, scary stuff. Recommended for readers who can deal with dark.