I’ve always enjoyed the Love series. Each one is a wordless graphic novel, in a day-in-the-life-of format. Each book follows a different key animal and the challenges of the environment and other animals around them. Animals are portrayed pretty realistically and with little anthropomorphism, feeling more like a book-version of a documentary.

This edition follows a Mastiff out for a hunt with his owner and how an encounter with Australian wildlife can quickly go sour.

Artwork is gorgeous as always, with rich colours and realistically drawn animals. This volume also shows off how varied Australia is with these grand, double-spread paged landscape shots.
While not overly graphic, the artwork does show blood and a few shots of gore (such as a festering carcass). Again, something akin to what you would see in a nature documentary.

I am pleased to have had the chance to read this early via NetGalley. I would certainly recommend to wildlife-enthusiasts.

This was really unique. The story was beautiful and clear without needing a single word which is absolutely amazing. The art work as well was absolutely absolutely breath taking. I read through it twice in a row and I found new things both times. The art work was so intricate and it pushed the story along perfectly.
My only "complaint" would have been a gore warning. I am not someone who is sickened by blood but I still like to be warned before I see it.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Wow! I just want to cry. This story was so beautiful and heartbreaking. It was really about love and courage but also about the harsh life in the wild Australia. A story about a brave dog's journey to get back home after his owner died due to a poisonous snake's bite. This is a kind of a story that doesn't need words in order to touch the reader and the illustrations were pretty fantastic .
Now, I just want to read the other books of the series because it is good and I freaking love it!

I love Frédéric Brrémaud and his comics, they are out of this world. This Love series is amazing and breathtaking and so sad. The volumes all have different animals in it and these are comics without any text. Just pictures and they are beautiful. Brrémaud moves his stories like dance on water, with precise simplicity and perfect form. The story flows like no other and Love: The Mastiff isn't an exception. It's just perfect in every way. The story is about an Austrian hunting dog and how the hunter dies and the dog begins its long journey towards home without him. The Mastiff meets and fights other animals just like in real life, since the comic is realistic and easy to believe in. The animals are animals and that makes this wonderful.

The colors are breathtaking as is the art. The land looks like Australia, even though there's no text telling so. Since well, there's no text at all. It's really hard to do this well, but Brrémaud succeeds like no one else. I think this is art actually first and foremost. I also liked the after text (aka the only text) about climate change and how to save the world in little deeds and bigger ones too. Wow.

It starts with dog hunting with it's owner. The gets killed and the dogs must survive on it's own to find it ways back home. The dog encounters and a pack of wild dingos. The art was nice and it felt watching a movie.