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Review: Le Lion

Le Lion Le Lion by Frédéric Brrémaud
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Love: The Lion is a graphic novel that shows the going abouts in a day of some African animals. We follow a multitude of animals, not just lions as the title might suggest. This is the third book in a series that does this similar concept but with different animals each volume, so they don't need to be read in any particular order.

After finishing it I was pretty confused so I immediately went back and re-read it to try and figure out what I missed. I figured out that the lion with the dark mane is the one from the begining and all through to the end. I was confused at the end because I was like "who is this random black maned lion? He was there earlier but like?" Yeah I dunno.

Love: The Fox was the first book of this no-narrative type of storytelling I had ever read and it blew my face off. I haven't read the first book in this series, Love: The Tiger so I can't compare to that. But yeah, Love: The Lion didn't live up to it's predecessor. It didn't feel satisfying. This almost felt kind of pointless. It literally took five minutes to read the whole thing, and although the art is amazing I'm not sure it would be worth buying. That hurts me to say because I can tell a lot of work went into this.

I downloaded a free copy of this book from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.


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