nerd teacher [books] reviewed Chilling Adventures of Sabrina by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, #1)
This is... so messy and kind of boring.
1 star
I got this book a long time ago in some Humble Bundle sale around comics; I forget when that was, but I've had it sitting in my calibre library for ages. Finally getting around to, at least, reading the graphic novels and comics, I started reading this.
I do not at all feel enticed to read anymore of it. It's paced far too quickly, even for a collected volume of comic books. The story doesn't feel cohesive, with much of it feeling entirely random. I don't even feel a connection with any of the stories (except maybe Ambrose and Salem? who I feel more about... and I feel nothing for anyone else at all).
Nor do I like the implication that is made about how it's easy to recruit oppressed people into an organisation (using Nancy, one of the few Black characters). It was... certainly a choice. Definitely not a …
I got this book a long time ago in some Humble Bundle sale around comics; I forget when that was, but I've had it sitting in my calibre library for ages. Finally getting around to, at least, reading the graphic novels and comics, I started reading this.
I do not at all feel enticed to read anymore of it. It's paced far too quickly, even for a collected volume of comic books. The story doesn't feel cohesive, with much of it feeling entirely random. I don't even feel a connection with any of the stories (except maybe Ambrose and Salem? who I feel more about... and I feel nothing for anyone else at all).
Nor do I like the implication that is made about how it's easy to recruit oppressed people into an organisation (using Nancy, one of the few Black characters). It was... certainly a choice. Definitely not a choice I would've made, but it was fairly bigoted choice.
I'm also baffled by the choice to overlap Sabrina with Archie, but... Whatever. That's probably the least of this thing's problems.