✘✘ Sarah ✘✘ (former Nefarious Breeder of Murderous Crustaceans)'s Reviews > Saga, Volume 2

Actual rating: a low 3.5 stars.

Okay, so I'm not nearly as enthusiastic about this one as I was about volume 1 ← this might (or might not) be the understatement of the century.

Volume 1 left me feeling like this:



Yes, I am a cigarette smoking dude with a moustache and over-gelled hair in real life.

This volume? It left me feeling like this:



Yes, I am also a freaky-eyed sausage on paws in real life. I am so cool.

But I am not completely insane yet . I didn't give this book a 3.5-star rating just because 3.5 is a pretty number. It isn't. A pretty number, I mean. Because odd numbers suck. So ugly. Ew ew ew. Oops, am I digressing again? Thought so. Too much vodka Lack of coffee and all that crap. So. Why is this volume still pretty awesome but not quite you almost made it there I could I LOVED you but I didn't:

➊ The Freaking Art is a Freaking Thing of Beauty.

➽ The cover is perfection:



➽ And look at this:





A thing of beauty, I tell you. Fiona Staples' work is seriously amazing.

➋ Super creative world and characters.

➽ Me love me Lying Cat:



➽ Izabel, coolest ghost babysitter ever:



➽ Gorillas and stuff:


➽ Mostest awesomest doctor ever:



➌ Awesome female characters:

➽ Alanna:



➽ Gwendolyn:



➽ Klara:






➊ The Romeo and Juliet vibe:

Please kill me somebody. Can't we just leave the freaking romance at the doorstep for once?! Sex is great but please don't ruin everything with cute, silly scenes.



EW, EW, EW.

➋ Little action and slow-paced, barely there plot :

There are some great individual scenes here, but the storyline itself? Bleh. The whole "meet the in-laws" subplot feels like something out of a sitcom. The scenes featuring Alanna and Barr are dull as hell. The "let's get the baby sitter back" part of the plot isn't that bad, but it's still pretty meh. And it adds nothing to the story as a whole. The only subplot I actually enjoyed was the one involving The Will, Gwendolyn, Lying Cat, Sophie, etc. Too bad these guys aren't the main characters in the story.







»» And the moral of this non-review is: I'll probably give volume 3 a try, but if the authors keep doing the more silly romance and family vs. less cool action and bloodshed thing, I'm done. Yes, this is a threat. Feel free to shudder now.