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Sing No Evil (2014)

by J.P. Ahonen(Favorite Author)

4.13 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1419713604 (ISBN13: 9781419713606)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Harry N. Abrams

review 1: I hadn't even realized I won this from Goodreads (didn't get the usual email) and was thrilled. I'm a long time graphic novel reader (and winning didn't influence my review). Even more exciting is that the authors/artists are relatively well known in their native Finland and this has to be the first Finnish graphic novel I've ever read.Aksel is the band's front man, the lead guitarist and singer. Lily is the keyboardist and Kervinen is the elderly bassist. Baloo is the drummer and he's a bear. No, not a hairy gay man, an actual brown bear (and no one seems to think this is strange so just go with it.). The problem is,Perkeros, their metal band, isn't really going anywhere. While Aksel's music is pretty amazing, he's a perfectionist who drives the others crazy and he stutte... morers and sings like a 'crow with a throat plague.' Worse, his girlfriend Janna is getting tired of it. She wants him to stop using his student loans to fund this dream and basically 'grow up.'Lily happens on a kebab and pizza delivery boy, Aydin, whose voice is amazing. Aydin is a Turk who has relocated to Finland and his Finnish isn't so great. Aksel is hurt and angry that they're trying to replace him as the lead singer but even he can't argue with Aydin's abilities. Lily always manages to get them booked into a major music event.As the story goes, Lily is being wooed by Diabolus's lead singer (and there is a fair amount of UST between her and Aksel). We learn slowly that Kervinen has been around forever, almost literally and this is where the urban fantasy comes in. Kervinen is centuries old, forever altered by music and he knows it's power. After all music is vibration and the universe is basically one big vibration. Aksel is tapping into this language of the universe with his harmonies and it can be a very dangerous thing. IN fact, Kervinen would like him to stop trying, especially after Aksel relates that once he found himself floating in the air after playing a riff. Aksel doesn't, of course, sleeping and eating less and less.And in the final chapter, there is a major throw down with other musicians messing around with the literal foundations of reality. If I had anything negative to say about this, that would be it. There is a ton of villainy in the final chapter but other than that, there really isn't any clues that something like this could even have happened. I would have liked the villains of the piece to have been woven in better because 90% of the novel's conflict is within the band itself, Aksel against the world more or less (like the poignant time when he's moved to tears because things are falling apart) and then boom suddenly there are monsters.Still, I really did love this. I would love to see more of their work translated. This is a treat for graphic novel lovers and music lovers.
review 2: Odotin sitä suurta kotimaista sarjakuvaromaania, jonka maailmaan eläytyä nautinnollisesti. Osittain tämä visuaalisesti (ja sivumäärältäänkin) huikea teos vastasi odotuksiin, mutta yliluonnollinen aines meni ikävästi överiksi ja sen myötä graafinen väkivalta astui kehiin tarpeettoman paljon. Upeita detaljeja mm. Tampereen kuvauksessa, ja nuorten aikuisten suhdekuviot ovat JP. "Villimpi Pohjola" Ahosella aina vahvoja! less

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