Thank you to NetGalley and the publishers for giving me an ARC to review!

1 star!

Oh boy. I was so excited to read this. A story of survivors of serial killers live together but the killers return from the dead?! AND A GRAPHIC NOVEL?! Sign me up!

I found myself laughing through most of this. Just some of the situations that would happen would just happen and you’re sat there like, “well how did she know how to do that? How did that happen?” But then the next thing it would be explained and that is that.

Also some of the story just didn’t seem to make much sense to me. But it was the reason previous reason that I couldn’t just enjoy this as much as I wanted.

3.5/5
The graphic novel reminds me of “The Final Girl Support Group” that came out recently about the women who survived slasher films.
Overall the story is interesting but sometimes doesn’t explain things clearly and could be added upon HOWEVER, I think it’s a great horror graphic novel. My students are obsessed with murder books and are always asking for them. We have lots of novels but not so many graphic novels that are thriller/horror so I will definitely be adding this title to our collection!

http://bewarethescarylibrarian.blogspot.com/2022/09/graphic-content-sacred-lamb-by-tim.html A witty concept powered by final girls who butt against the stereotype.

Spooky and full of surprises. I quite enjoyed this. I put this as currently reading a few days ago but I didn't start it til last night and crushed it in one sitting, I just had to know where it was going.

This is hard to digest, but I really, really enjoyed this one. The story is something to be digested, but not easily, as it deals with a lot of concepts.

Sacred Lamb definitely gave me a fright! I am very new to reading more in this genre but I did find this novel well illustrated and interesting.

When you have a super natural villain you need Supernatural heroes and that’s what you get in Sacred lame the place where everyone has an ax to grind everyone has an attitude and some even like to kill. I really enjoyed this book with vibrant pics and a fun story this is a comic I highly recommend. I received it from NetGalley and the publisher but I am leaving this review voluntarily please forgive any mistakes as I am legally blind and dictate my review.

I’m not quite sure how put my finger on it, but this one was just not for me. The illustration style needed some refinement, and the dialogue came across incredibly abnormal.

For example, a character gets shot in the arm, and the officer says “LAPD, stay the f*ck down or the next one goes in your body mass!”

…body mass? Isn’t the arm technically part of one’s body?

While the plot of this graphic novel (as well as the stunning artwork) is what pulled me in, the El execution of the promised story just feel a bit flat for me. The characters felt very one dimensional and the stakes were too ridiculous and didn’t lean into the camp factor that may have helped this feel more like a riff on horror slasher movies.

Overall I just didn’t really enjoy the story but I appreciated the artwork.

Addicting! So much good horror. I wasn‘t a fan of the drawing style but the story was so good! I loved it.

Kellyn West survived a terrifying ordeal by killing the killer who had been stalking her. Now she's been brought to Sacred Lamb, a top-secret town filled with other survivors who are kept away from the rest of the world to protect innocent people from the possibility of "sequel killings." Think if the survivors of Friday the 13th, Halloween, and Nightmare on Elm Street were all trapped in a small town/prison. The isolation doesn't protect the survivors, though - their tormentors are coming to finish the job, and all the restrictions they live with won't be enough to keep them alive. A bloody adrenaline rush of a book. Sacred Lamb asks why the (mostly female) survivors of violence have to carry the weight of the crimes against them, while not skimping on the horror.

The art is a very striking style with bold illustrations. The characters of the book have their own interesting back story as “final girls” and their background that brings them into the present story are all interesting horror stories in their own right. You get double the story. Definitely worth reading.

Thankyou to Netgalley for providing me with a copy of Sacred Lamb by Tim Seeley. This is a horror graphic novel about a town where serial-killer survivors go to seek refuge and go into hiding. It was super entertaining from start to finish and I’d definitely reccomend!

Pretty interesting concept and plot. Characterization is quite flimsy in my opinion. And I kind of like the vibe given off from the illustration. Thanks so much for the eARC. Always grateful for Netgalley and publishers

Thank you for allowing me the chance to read this. I really wanted to like it. I couldn't get into this comic. The pictures where cool though.

Sacred Lamb

Thank you so much, TKO Studios & Netgalley for this gifted copy of Sacred Lamb in exchange for an honest review! Scared Lamb is out now!

A graphic novel about a bunch of bad ass final girls? Sign me up!! Sacred Lamb was a 3.5/5 ⭐️ for me! This read like a really cheesy horror movie. Thankfully those are my favorite kinds. 😂 This was short and sweet and gory and full of serial killers/ final girls. The over all plot was great, I just thought it fell a little short. The twist was pretty predictable and the ending had my rolling my eyes, but it was pretty fun either way!

Synopsis: Sacred Lamb is a place where final girls go to cope with the deaths that were brought on by their victimizers and deal with the emotional stress they also caused. It is a supposedly a very secure and secretive area, with no outside contact, until final girls start to get picked off one by one.

The artwork was well done and the premise is what initially drew me in. But this story felt like satire the whole time. Cheesy horror aspects, cheesy social media presence and cheesy banter back and forth between characters.

This graphic novel might resonate better with a younger crowd, but the artwork made it feel more mature. This graphic novel definitely has its niche, and it will find it's readers! I sadly wasn't one in this case.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for this eARC. These opinions are my own.

Sacred Lamb is a secret town, the refuge of survivors of endemic slasher killers. It’s a sort of witness protection to save the victims from being murdered in the inevitable slasher sequels when the killer returns from the dead.

Kellyn West is a social media star, who recently dispatched her own slasher killer on a live stream. She’s the new resident in the town and when an army of slashers turn up to kill these survivors, she must team up with the O.G E.V’s (endemic victims) to survive once more.

The plot of this meta-horror graphic novel sounded so good so I had to read it. I’m a huge fan of slasher horrors (I’ve my step/dad to blame for this as he introduced me to the slasher greats like Mike Meyers and Jason Voorhees!) and I really wanted to like this! None of the E.V’s were likeable and I didn’t connect with any of them.

The story definitely made me think of Grady Hendrix’s Final Girls Support Group. The art work is good, but the story itself just seemed to be lacking in terms of real wow factor. Kellyn is portrayed as a sex object and I know that is seen in a lot of the slasher movies but as a story set in the present day, its just outdated and falls flat.

I did enjoy the back stories for each of the E.V’s but couldn’t get past the cheesy language and weird elements that jarred with the rest of the story.

3 stars. If you want a graphic novel that is an homage to the slasher movies of the past, this might be for you.

Thanks to NetGalley and publishers for the arc.

If slasher films were true, and the authorities accepted that, what could they do about it? Well, in this story they deal with the risk of collateral damage from sequel killers or resurrections by relocating final girls who survive the initial rampage to a remote fortified community called Sacred Lamb. Also by trying to discourage the term 'slasher' as unhelpful, though they're fine with describing the survivors as 'endemic victims', or 'eves' for short – as one of them notes, just like the story about women bringing evil into the world. Because the pitch may be Nailbiter-style out-there, but this is a book which knows that a good slasher story needs to be about something more than jump-scares, and here it's victim-blaming and the untrustworthiness of law enforcement. Handled neatly enough, for the most part, that I'm definitely tempted to give Tim Seeley's previous meta slasher comic, Hack/Slash, another go - not least because, being longer, that presumably won't have the rushed finale that mars the story here. The other stumbling block is Jelena Dordević's art, which is fine on the stiller scenes, getting across how damaged and/or creepy most of the cast are, but once the action starts can feel at once static and exploitative, not to mention inconsistent, with characters, backgrounds and wounds shifting around between panels in ways that don't quite work. Not to mention the scene where the dialogue is talking about it being dark and the visuals suggest evening at most.

(Netgalley ARC)

My first impressions, the cover is okay. Not very spooky or horror-like, but do not let this prevent you from giving this book a try. I absolutely loved it, I devoured it in two days!
Starring Kellyn West, a social media influencer. She is being hunted by a serial killer. An officer of the law saves her and helps her get to Sacred Lamb, a secret town where the survivors of killers live in safety and comfort.
Kellyn makes some friends and enemies in this town, as she struggles to settle into her new life. We follow along as the stories of the victims become known to us. And wouldn’t you know it, Sacred Lamb isn’t what it is meant to be.
Thank you #NetGalley and TKO Presents for sending me a copy of #SacredLamb to read and review.