Memory Collectors (The Memory Collectors #1-3)

author: Menton3

name: Wayne

average rating: 3.50

book published: 2014

rating: 3

read at: 2014/06/14

date added: 2014/06/14

shelves: graphic-novels

review:

'Memory Collectors' is a graphic novel with an intriguing concept and gorgeous art that works better as a concept than a fully explained idea. It's strange and weird and I wanted to like it more than I ultimately did.



Edith and Magdalena are fetish models that are saved by a woman named Beatrice and then find themselves fighting a type of evil that lives off memories. The monsters are sort of vampiric in nature. The women train and are very good at what they do. There are also some intermittent stories by other artists which can be a little jarring since the styles are different and the stories seem initially disconnected, but they are good stories and the art is good. The monsters are quite creepy and Edith and company are quite adept at dispatching them, even in crazy high heels.



The art for the main story is really good. The story is sparse, but manageable, but then there are the prose pages. I think graphic novels can work with more exposition, but in this case, the wordier parts try to give more detail, but just aren't as interesting, proving this is all style over substance, which is unfortunate. It works great as a sparse graphic novel, and I would have been happy with less details, but it ultimately ends up sinking itself with exposition.



I was given a review copy of this graphic novel by Diamond Book Distributors and Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this graphic novel.





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