Sabrina
2018 • 204 pages
Ratings14
Average rating3.6
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Ratings14
Average rating3.6
"When Sabrina disappears, an airman in the U.S. Air Force is drawn into a web of suppositions, wild theories, and outright lies. Sabrina depicts a modern world devoid of personal interaction and responsibility, where relationships are stripped of intimacy through glowing computer screens. An indictment of our modern state, Drnaso contemplates the dangers of a fake news climate."--
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Meh. I semi-understand the hype around this book, but I definitely don't understand some of the breathlessly “best book of our times” blurbs from greats like Zadie Smith. I really disliked his drawing style and that you could barely tell characters apart. Having seen nothing else by Drnaso, I can't tell if that's viewed as a feature or a flaw. For me, if yellow hair is the only feature separating one character from another, I'm going with flaw. I liked some of the juxtapositions of the panels and the churning dread felt real, but the intentionally obscured text panels were tiresome and though I read the book in one night, I never felt compelled or moved by the characters or story. It's a final 3 star instead of a 2 because I will keep thinking about the dark side of conspiracy theories after tragedies, but I'm not looking to read more from him.
