I REALLY loved the art style of this graphic novel. I thought the premise was really fun and cool. I got lost sometimes on what the story was trying to explain unfortunately. I would say that overall it was pretty enjoyable! Definitely worth picking up if only for the art.

I received a copy of this book in exchange for my honest review. Thank you NetGalley.

I LOVED this graphic novel. The illustrations were amazing, the colors were vibrant and eye-catching, and the storyline? unique and engaging. well worth the read!!

Well that was certainly creepy and not something I should’ve read right before bed. Take Orwell’s 1984 and the tv show Big Brother, add some more horror and gore, illustrate it and you’ve got this graphic novel. A fascinating take on the concept of the internet and how easy it can sometimes be to find information about people.

I received an advance copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for my honest review.

I really wanted to like this book, the first chapter was so interesting and seemed to have so much mystery! Once I got to the second chapter I couldn't really get involved in the storyline, and by chapter 3 I had to stop. I think maybe if the author was able to cut back on some of the monologue of the protagonist, it would have been a more accessible story.

Blink was very interesting. Following Wren into the depths of the past and trying to figure out what happened was quite the ride. Wren's need to understand and fill in the gaps is so all consuming it essentially destroys Wren's life and left me to wonder, was searching for answers really worth it in the end?
One thing that kept this from 5 stars for me was I felt we needed more time with Wren out in the real world before diving into the building of Wren's past. I felt maybe there could've been more mystery leading up to Wren finding the building and entering the building.
Other than that I really enjoyed the story.

𝕭𝖔𝖔𝖐 𝕽𝖊𝖛𝖎𝖊𝖜
When Wren Booker was discovered on the streets of New York, alone and covered in blood, she was three years old. Since then, she has been plagued by memories of her unremembered youth, until she discovers a mysterious website showing several CCT feeds from mysterious rooms in a demolished building decades later. When something triggers hidden memories that take her back to a location she has seen in her lifelong nightmares, something snaps. In search of information, Wren slips in and becomes lost in the camera-filled, pitch-black labyrinths of a decrepit social experiment known only as BLINK,which she soon learns is not at all abandoned. As Wren pursues her obsession all the way down, what should be a strange nightmare-scape feels all too familiar.
This book is a perfect example of "never judge a book by it's cover". The cover illustrator has done an excellent job. Otherwise the plot is cliche. It needs to provide more explanations. I think if any sequel comes that answers the loops it left to the readers to fill. I enjoyed little bit the first part but then it gets boring. I struggled to finish it. Besides, it was difficult to read on a Tab as the publisher only provided a PDF.

Thank you Netgalley for providing this ARC.

The striking cover art of this book available from NetGalley caught my attention. Behind the cover, unfortunately, both the art and the story proved to be confusing. The story revolves around Wren Booker, a young journalist, who is haunted by the mystery of her childhood, where she was found alone and covered in blood wandering the streets of Manhattan. Her obsession leads her to an abandoned building tied to surveillance and cryptic websites and a social cyber experiment called Blink.

The building is filled with screens displaying images Wren has seen in her nightmares, triggering her PTSD. While we know the dangers of surveillance and social experimentation, the story doesn't delve deep into characterization, and the art seems to be the driving force behind the loosely defined trauma/horror story.

This is based on a real-life social experiment done in New York in 1999 by one Josh Harris https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Harris_(Internet). That real life story is more interesting to me than this book.

Overall, this book wasn't my cup of tea, but I appreciate the opportunity to have an early look at it.

Blink is a completed run of five comics in the style of found footage horror movies/novels. Following our main character Wren, we meet her haunted from her past. She is haunted by memories she is not certain are her own. Wren spends the rest of her life trying to figure out what is real and what isn't. Blink is part found footage, part sci-fi horror, and beautifully drawn comic.
I enjoyed the artwork of this series a lot, from the panels, world building, etc. the artwork in this is top notch. I actually wish I physically got to read this one instead of a digital copy. However, where the story was carried by artwork, I wished the comics had a little more building. I think the plot is supposed to a feel a bit like a house of leaves but in comic form that can be tricky to translate. Overall, though totally worth the read and would recommend.

I’m gonna be 100% honest with you. I read this about a month ago so I don’t remember very much about this book. I remember being really interesting and colourful and I was rooting for the main character because she was very cool and edgy and I thought she was fun and I remember finishing on like a cliffhanger I love the colourful art style and I think I’ll bring more from this but it is a very stylised piece so I would be aware of this as isn’t a general art style. Well I did actually really enjoy it.

Love the cover and the artwork of the novel itself is gorgeous no doubt. For me, the panelling though creative and visually pleasing, was so confusing at times it made it really hard to follow and therefore hard to understand what was going on and what the author wanted me to feel. So it wasn’t really for me

Wren Booker was found on the street as a kid, abandoned, bloody, without memories. As an adult, her non-existent past still chews on her to the point of obsession. All she has are a few glimpses of images - until she discovers a video feed online that seems to livestream a place that looks like the few things she can remember. Against her partner's pleas, she flies out to visit the house or houses the videos originate from. What she finds is at the same time less and more than what she bargained for.
I enjoyed this story. I was really courious to find out what happened in Blink and the resolutions did not disappoint, but I did feel like this could have been a bit longer and explain/show a little more in depth what was going on. I really loved the details in the backgrounds and the way the colours in themselves already created athmosphere.

Beautifully drawn and pack with anxiety inducing action. Was a page turner from beginning to end. Would recommend to anyone.

I’d like to thank NetGalley and Oni Press for providing me with an eARC in exchange for a honest review.

The premise:
This is a found-footage horror graphic novel. The main character is Wren Booker, a young woman who has no recollection of her childhood before the age of three, when she was found alone and covered in blood roaming the streets of New York. Then one day she finds a website streaming CCT feeds from a strange building, a building that jogs her memory. We follow Wren as she breaks in and explores the dark corners of that building and her past, both connected to a strange social experiment.

My opinion:
The artwork is absolutely beautiful and I found the panel-formatting quite interesting, if perhaps a bit difficult to follow at times. The plot had a lot of potential, but I believe it was underdeveloped. Wren ends up being a one-dimensional character and I found it difficult to relate to her. We aren’t given many details on her life outside of this terrible mystery, we never truly “get to know” her. Also, I feel we reach the end of the story with even more questions about her than at the beginning.

Recommendation:
Overall, it was still an enjoyable read and I’m sure it would appeal to many fans of both horror and comic books.

2 out of 5 stars

This ended up not being for me so I DNF'd it before fully finishing the graphic novel. I think a lot of classic sci-fi comic book lovers would enjoy this but I just couldn't get into it.

Thank you NetGalley for the opportunity to check this out, I did get a digital copy for free to review, but this is my honest opinion of the book.

Beautiful art and clever stylistic choices with the panels and how the story flows from page to page. I found the story pretty difficult to follow at points but on the whole I enjoyed the pacy nature of it. There was constant action, no lulls, I did find aspects of it surprising in a good way, and the ending was just right for the kind of story being told.

The premise of this graphic novel, as well as the stunning cover, caught my eye immediately. The artwork is absolutely beautiful and the unique paneling kept me fully engaged. The story, however, left something to be desired. Our main character, Wren, felt very one dimensional with her only driving force being that she had to solve the mystery of her parents and where they went. The reader is given no real details about her life outside of this mystery, making her rather unrelatable. Her entire personality is based on this desire for her past, to find this place she’s been searching for, only to find it and immediately want to leave. It was quite disappointing.

That being said, I think the plot has a lot of potential! I would have loved to see a majority of the details of Blink explored with more background and context given. The little microcosm of Blink has so much to offer and I feel like this graphic novel didn’t even scratch the surface. It overall felt quite rushed, glossing over why we should care about Wren's past and how Blink became what it is.

I enjoyed the story and the art itself was a pleasure to look at, but the plot itself felt lacking. There really felt like there should have been more, and if there ever is, I could love to give it a read!

Thank you to Netgalley and Oni Press for an advance reader copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.

Disclaimer: I read the first issue of this volume earlier this year, so I'm only including issues 2 to 5 in this review.

I did find more good about this comic book volume (unsure if this is continuing since this does end on a pretty contained ending) than bad. Unfortunately the bad is that the story seems all over the place. I often found myself wondering if I was just stupid, or if the story was trying to do something and not being successful (it could be a combination of the two). It sometimes felt a bit preachy (a criticism of our digitalized lives feels like a generational given rather than an actual doomsday warning)

The good is that the illustrations are really dynamic and creative. The paneling and structure of the book kept my attention throughout (even if sometimes it made the reading order to be confusing) I really like that the writer was really trying to do SOMETHING. (I'm not sure if I ever understood what that something was, but I'd rather you swing for the fences than play it safe - especially in comics) If you read it for vibes, you are going to get what you come for, it feels like a whole mood.

The ending felt very 90s but I like retro stuff so I enjoyed it lol.

2.5

I'm not really sure what to think of this graphic novel. The art style was beautiful but the formatting was often too cluttered or confusing. Sometimes it worked with the book to visually express the story's atmosphere but other times it just made the book hard to read.

I think this story was a character study focused on obsession more than anything else. But for a character-focused story, the characterisation wasn't done as well as it could've been. The main character frequently shifted stances or motivations for no apparent reason and it was exhausting to try and keep up with.

The book had a surveillance-focused horror element and in the book, it was mentioned that the real-world surveillance outside BLINK was a bad thing but the "why" wasn't really explained.

I do think the idea itself was interesting and the overall pacing was consistent

Wren Booker can barely remember when she was discovered covered in blood on the streets of New York. But years later, when she finds a cryptic website supposedly streaming multiple strange rooms, she is haunted by forgotten memories. Desperate to find the truth, she hunts down the website source and breaks into a camera-filled maze building that isn't as abandoned as Wren once thought.

I was enticed by the cover and art style and finished reading it all in a (literal) blink of an eye. Wren has followed her obsession with her past into a world of uncountable surveillance cameras and feeling that someone - or something - is watching her. The art style and illustration really carry this entire story - it encapsulates Wren's dark, obsessive nature and the labyrinth in which she finds herself trapped.

If anything, I was disappointed in the found-footage aspect of the graphic novel since it sets up readers for an entirely different story. Found footage assumes we are witnessing Wren's story as if it were discovered film or recordings, but instead, it's about what Wren finds within the sinister building. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed reading the story, but it was a shame to realise the direction wasn't going in the way it was promoted.

Blink was almost perfect. It starts with a great premise, fantastic art and panels—an urban tale about the dangers of surveillance. Unfortunately, the execution is disappointing and loses steam towards the end, leaving behind a ghost of what could've been.

I'd like to thank NetGalley and Oni Press publishing for the eARC provided in exchange for an honest review.

I'm not a graphic novel reader - I own only a couple of Sin City tomes and a lone Wolverine issue I think? But picked this book up from the NetGalley shelves due to the gorgeous cover art, and wasn't disappointed.
Some other reviewers mention that the story is erratic and I do agree: most questions go unanswered and it requires an large amount of suspension of disbelief, but that didn't take anything away from the experience for me. The art is as stunning as the cover, the paneling is creative and the narrative is compelling - we follow Wren through an inner exploration of her past and her fears along with an outer exploration of a massive complex full of terrors.
Definitely recommended for sci-fi horror readers, it's a short but wild ride.