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The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo
4.0
If only there wasn’t borderline incest. You grow up with someone who is your brother, then fall in love with them… that’s incest. Even though Ji Lin and Shin aren’t biological. There relationship could of still been deep and emotional without the romance between them. It wasn’t needed.
The Walking Dead: Compendium 3 by Robert Kirkman
5.0
Pros
- I really liked both of the storylines of this book. I thought Negan was done really well and I never realised how show accurate he was. I felt the saviours war went on for long enough and the lead up to the whispers was well done. The ending, although I knew it was coming, was still emotional. It was nice to see Maggie have a bit more of a personality as well.
- Jesus is easily the best character. Not only is he sexy af but he's also strong and well written. Although I still maintain that Rick, Andrea, Carl and Michonne are the only characters that really show personality. I was also surprised by a few of the deaths in this book.
- I really like how they are setting up Carl as the future of the Walking Dead. Although he is annoying it's nice to see another character besides right have so much light. That scene with him and Lydia was so uncomfortable though. But that's what Kirkman does well, writing a fucked up apocalypse.
- The art throughout these books has been consistently amazing. They do an excellent job of showing gore without being too overwhelming.
Cons
- I do wish they expanded on other characters more. I can see their attempt in this compendium but the story is still 93% Rick, 6% Carl, 1% everyone else. However, I still rate this book 5 stars.
- I really liked both of the storylines of this book. I thought Negan was done really well and I never realised how show accurate he was. I felt the saviours war went on for long enough and the lead up to the whispers was well done. The ending, although I knew it was coming, was still emotional. It was nice to see Maggie have a bit more of a personality as well.
- Jesus is easily the best character. Not only is he sexy af but he's also strong and well written. Although I still maintain that Rick, Andrea, Carl and Michonne are the only characters that really show personality. I was also surprised by a few of the deaths in this book.
- I really like how they are setting up Carl as the future of the Walking Dead. Although he is annoying it's nice to see another character besides right have so much light. That scene with him and Lydia was so uncomfortable though. But that's what Kirkman does well, writing a fucked up apocalypse.
- The art throughout these books has been consistently amazing. They do an excellent job of showing gore without being too overwhelming.
Cons
- I do wish they expanded on other characters more. I can see their attempt in this compendium but the story is still 93% Rick, 6% Carl, 1% everyone else. However, I still rate this book 5 stars.
The Walking Dead: Compendium 4 by Robert Kirkman
3.0
Pros
- Andrea's death was incredibly well written and emotional. It serves to further incentives Rick's cause. It's the closest I came to crying in the whole series.
Cons
- The end to the Whisper's War was stupid. The Whisper's had so much potential to be terrifying, and they were at first. Killing Alpha was a bold move. But it felt like nothing came of it. One show off with Beta and then Aaron and Jesus come along and are like "lol bye Beta, *stab*." How anticlimactic. It feels like Kirkman got through 95% of writing the Whisper's, thought of the Commonwealth idea and wanted to move straight into it.
Overall, I feel this book was the weakest out of the 4. However, I give the series as a whole 4/5.
- Andrea's death was incredibly well written and emotional. It serves to further incentives Rick's cause. It's the closest I came to crying in the whole series.
Cons
- The end to the Whisper's War was stupid. The Whisper's had so much potential to be terrifying, and they were at first. Killing Alpha was a bold move. But it felt like nothing came of it. One show off with Beta and then Aaron and Jesus come along and are like "lol bye Beta, *stab*." How anticlimactic. It feels like Kirkman got through 95% of writing the Whisper's, thought of the Commonwealth idea and wanted to move straight into it.
Overall, I feel this book was the weakest out of the 4. However, I give the series as a whole 4/5.