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Crossed 2: Valores Familiares (2011)

by David Lapham(Favorite Author)

3.32 of 5 Votes: 4

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English

genre

Horror

publisher

Ediciones Glénat España

series

Crossed

review 1: I think this second volume of the Crossed series have a better plot than Volume 1, but...not so better...Like the volume 1, sometimes you feel that you don't really know the characters, because they don't spend time telling us about them...For example, in crossed volume 1 you read all the book without know much things about the characters, they just show few dialogues where they talk about themselves.In the second volume they improved that (maybe because it's another writer), but wasn't a huge improve, but they make you know more about the story of Adeline and her family.Doing that, you can make more connections with the characters and you'll have deeper feelings with the happenings that occurred to them. Like:Until now in the series you always can see a person that sudden... morely die and because of the lack of connections with the character you don't care... I hate when this kind of things happen... because will be better feel something when someone die in the book even if this feeling were a feeling of happiness because you hated the character or if were a feeling of sadness because you liked the character...So...I wont' stop to read this series, but I hope they can improve the plot in the others books.
review 2: I have to say, if you're not down with watching graphic depictions of all sorts of atrocities, don't read this book. Seriously, go find anything else. This particular volume depicts rape, incest, child deaths, and too many other things to mention. It's not the most absolutely graphic stuff you'll find in this vein, but it's fairly disturbing. Since so many of these volumes can be read as stand-alone reads, it's reasonable to expect that this might be someone's first foray into this series.That said, I was rather impressed by this volume. Where the first volume was pretty much just madcap mayhem, this volume gives us a little more of a story than "just surviving". This might be partially due to our characters having one set place for much of the action to take place in as well. It's easier to focus on plot development when you have one location to center in on. This volume (as well as volume 3) focuses predominantly on human evil rather than Crossed evil. It's just so much more horrifying when you see people committing what are ultimately unnecessary atrocities against each other, especially when there's so few untainted people left alive and so, so many of the Crossed.My only major concern so far is that while we are getting more of a look into this world, it so far lacks the pull that other dystopian series have. There's no true storyline so far for the series as a whole and while it is entertaining, it mostly falls under the wide and encompassing net of gorn comics. It's good, but not great, lacking anything beyond the basic need to show people doing bad things to each other for various reasons. I'm not saying that it has to be anything more than that, but it's a little disappointing at times to see such great potential go to waste. less

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