author: Vanyda
name: Wayne
average rating: 3.79
book published: 2010
rating: 3
read at: 2017/12/29
date added: 2017/12/29
shelves: graphic-novels
review:
'Valentine book 1' by Vanyda follows a teenager as she navigates through school and life. Not a lot happens, but I think that's ok.
Valentine lives with her mother. She goes to school. She likes boys. She plays on the edges of bad choices and sees what some of those choices do to her friends. In her group of friends, she's the shy one, which means that Felix, the boy she likes, may never know she exists.
Throughout the book, it feels like Valentine is more of a voyeur to the life around her. The story moves slowly through her daily life and we get a sense that she's not really alive. Her friends seem to pull her along and she seems to blindly follow them. Perhaps this changes in later volumes. I was reminded of manga by the story and the art, which I really liked.
I received a review copy of this graphic novel from Europe Comics and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this graphic novel.
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