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Kellie's Diary #1 (2013)

by Thomas Jenner(Favorite Author)

3.41 of 5 Votes: 4

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English

genre

Horror

publisher

Survive Entertainment

series

Kellie's Diary

review 1: I have been writing these graphic novel reviews for almost a year, and never have I encountered a book that was so misleading. Kellie’s Diary does not fail due to a weak concept or bad anatomy. It fails because it breaks the only cardinal rule that can never be broken in any graphic novel of any genre: Kellie’s Diary has no graphics.Kellie’s Diary is a completely textual diary of a nine-year-old girl as she lives through the first stages of a zombie apocalypse. Altogether it is not a bad concept, but the writing within the diary does not seem like that of a nine-year-old. The syntax and observations are that of an adult with the odd phrase or misspelling in an attempt to make the work seem like that of a child. With no actual art to redeem this book, the reader is le... moreft completely dependent on the weak narration, which eventually becomes extremely annoying because of how broken-up and unbelievable it is.Kellie’s Diary is meant to be a graphic novel representation of Kellie’s Diary: Decay of Innocence by Thomas Jenner and Angeline Perkins. When I first picked it up, I thought it was odd that there was no illustrator or colourist listed, but now I understand why: the only “graphic” quality to this graphic novel is that each page is made to look as if it has been handwritten and kept in the same journal.I would not recommend Kellie’s Diary to anyone. Not only is it not a graphic novel, it’s just plain boring to read.cross-posted from theotherpress.ca
review 2: I don't usually go for this type of writing style, but, surprisingly, I enjoyed it.This very much reads as if a nine-year-old girl was attempting to survive the start of the zombie apocalypse. A kid would not really know what's going on, what those things were, and would have a "My parents will make it better" mentality. Kellie just wanted to get home and make sure her parents and friends were okay, and even grabbed food for anyone else she may have found.The only downside I felt could have been improved was that there wasn't a strong enough sense of urgency in Kellie's writing. Someone that young, experiencing that kind of event would probably be much more terrified than let on. But this was helped by the fact that she felt that her diary was like a friend, and her talking to that friend gave her comfort. I also loved that she knew that those monsters were once people, and she felt sorry for them, not just terrified of them. And her heart went out to their families.Although It wasn't very long, I feel it was worth the time. less

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