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A review by pinesandpages
Across a Field of Starlight: by Blue Delliquanti
2.75
The art was gorgeous, no doubt, and that was the best thing about this book. Oh, the other great thing was the queernormativity in every facet of life.
Overall, it felt like the author was trying to have a lot of depth and raise big topics, but the topics were only ever lightly broached, then there were weird time jumps/unexplained events so it was hard to follow the plot progression, all wrapped up in a never fully explained sci fi universe. I frankly was not able to understand most of the plot as a result. I don’t know why there was a politic uprising, how the Firebacks are resisting it but also low key taking over other planets themselves, and why the Empire is bad (other than that empires are rarely good news). I also don’t even really understand how it ended, other than with an explosion. I was constantly double checking that I hadn’t accidentally skipped a page (or several) or missed any panels, bc the transitions were NOT smooth and I couldn’t follow how we got from one place to another. Which is surprising bc this graphic novel is also 350 pages so you’d think it’d be more clear.
Anyways, I didn’t really enjoy this but I didn’t dislike it either.
Overall, it felt like the author was trying to have a lot of depth and raise big topics, but the topics were only ever lightly broached, then there were weird time jumps/unexplained events so it was hard to follow the plot progression, all wrapped up in a never fully explained sci fi universe. I frankly was not able to understand most of the plot as a result. I don’t know why there was a politic uprising, how the Firebacks are resisting it but also low key taking over other planets themselves, and why the Empire is bad (other than that empires are rarely good news). I also don’t even really understand how it ended, other than with an explosion. I was constantly double checking that I hadn’t accidentally skipped a page (or several) or missed any panels, bc the transitions were NOT smooth and I couldn’t follow how we got from one place to another. Which is surprising bc this graphic novel is also 350 pages so you’d think it’d be more clear.
Anyways, I didn’t really enjoy this but I didn’t dislike it either.