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Sleeping Beauties, Vol. 1 (Graphic Novel)

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Well, the moral of this one seems to be "men are complete and total garbage."
It's pretty timely though, despite being a graphic novel adaptation of a 2017 book: an illness is sweeping the world and it is making men act like idiots. Why? Because the illness only affects women, who are falling asleep only to become covered in cobwebs. If anyone forces them awake they turn psychotic and homicidal. A few men are hoping to help and find a cure, most are taking the opportunity to riot, violate the sleeping women and set them on fire. Nice.

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This was a tough one. The story is great but is incredibly difficult to follow. To be fair, I have not read the novel that this graphic novel is based. That may be where the issue lies. However, I don’t think I should need to read the novel to understand this since they are separate entities. This graphic novel switches back and forth between characters so much and is rather confusing.

The illustrations are phenomenal and I would love to see the full-color version when this is released. I was really impressed by that.

I think I might revisit this graphic novel after reading the original source material since it is a very interesting concept. However, this was just too confusing to follow and I can’t recommend it unless you’ve read the book.

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This was not for me. I was really hoping to enjoy this comic as I usually love horror but this one just didn't sit well with me. Nothing was wrong with it, I just didn't care for it. The story was good but the art style was so ugly it was almost impossible to read it. Like I said this was a good story but overall not for me.
Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for the early review copy.

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Stephen King's Sleeping beauties come to life in a graphic novel.

I don't know if perhaps not having read the book first affected my review, but I didn't enough the graphic novel; it was confusing and switched between characters so abruptly I couldn't grasp anything right away.
The art style was fascinating, but this just wasn't for me.

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