![]() ![]() That's one of my pet peeves with graphic novels: when they depict females as ridiculously proportioned pin ups. The people aren't depicted like normal every day people (especially the faeries) but, for the most part, I don't think the artist over-sexualized the women. The story contains (non-explicit) drug use, rape and kidnapping. This book deals with surprisingly dark themes so I wouldn't let my tween read it. Sometimes we glamour wood to take on their appearance or we abandon a faerie in their place." pg 36. ![]() I enjoyed the faerie lore in this graphic novel: "If an older mortal is beautiful or good at riddles, we might take them, but we always leave something behind in exchange. And those moments are stretching wider and wider." pg 5. "You know how sometimes, when you glance at something out of the corner of your eye, it looks different for a moment? Well, sometimes when I look straight at a thing, it looks weird too. Where has her mother gone and is Rue going crazy? But then, one day when her mom disappears, Rue begins to see strange things- creatures with horns in the coffee shop, a winged girl hanging out in the high school hallway- and she realizes that she's different too. Rue knows her mother is not like other parents. ![]() ![]() She talks to plants, hangs out naked in the yard and seems ageless. Rue's mother has always been a little different. ![]()
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