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Review: In the Small

In the Small In the Small by Michael Hague
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

In The Small was interesting... I have never read anything like it. One day the world turns blue for a couple seconds and then every human shrinks down to the size of a shoe box. The reason behind this was never fully explained, there was just peoples theories that were thrown around.

It was enjoyable enough, I was never bored, but a main thing that kept me reading was the yearning for more information about what-the-heck is going on, which I never got. The ending was really weird... instead of answers it introduced more questions. Soo that's really bad if this is a stand alone (which is what I have been led to believe) but fine if there's another book.

The storytelling was kind of shotty though. A lot of times this would happen: a character reacts to something, but you never actually see anything. They're just like "Wow why's there so many people?" but said people were never actually shown. And fight scenes went like this: Frame 1: Oh no, enemy! Frame 2: Picture of the character stabbing the enemy.... that's it. Fight scene over, they continue on. Another big sequential art no-no: instead of putting a revelation on the page flip, a lot of them were on the right page so I would see it before I even read the left page, thus destroying any shock or feeling of revelation. All of these are just signs of the author not knowing how to properly draw comics. The art itself was alright.

Overall I'm not sure how much I liked this. It has it's faults but the story was interesting even though it wasn't told very well. So I might recommend it if you find the premise interesting and you don't mind the faults too much.

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