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I enjoyed going on the quest for knowledge with Saturday and Sunday. What an adorable, well draw, relatable experience, for anyone who’s ever questioned where we come from, and what our place is in the world.

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Saturday and Sunday are two lizards who have big questions about the world they live in, who they are and how they belong. To find the answers, they go on an adventure around their island and meet lots of new people along the way.

The illustrations in this book were simple but very effective and really reflected the personality of the characters. Perfect for the aimed age category. Throughout the story, there is quite a lot of humour used and it works well! It is a light, humorous read and I am sure many children would enjoy it!

The story itself seemed rather chaotic and jumpy, going from one scene to the next almost without the previous scene ending. We were constantly introduced to new characters and it was becoming a bit repetitive. I definitely think the story could have been smoothed out and the scenes edited to flow a little easier. Even something as simple as fewer places on the island for Saturday and Sunday to explore for their answers would have helped. For example, if the island consisted of the beach that Saturday and Sunday live on, a jungle, a town, a dinosaur graveyard and the lizard tunnels then at the beginning, Saturday and Sunday could have travelled through each of these places trying to find their answers and meeting a couple of characters on the way. .That way more time could have been spent in each place, the story could have developed more and overall it would have been a lot smoother to read rather than random characters appearing and situations happening without any introduction or relevance to the rest of the story.

Despite these issues, the story was enjoyable to read and the characters were very likeable.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for providing me with a copy of this book to read and for the opportunity to give my own, honest opinion.

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3.75 stars.

This is a Hilarious read about 2 lizards named Saturday and Sunday. They were both travelling around to find out where they came from. I enjoyed the lovely characters with the different scene in this graphic novel. The fact that each one of the journey they met new characters was so cool! i loved when they were both running and had to like take turns to sleep and carry one another, while one was forced to be dragged all over the place when he was sleeping! hehe!

I adored the dedication this author has placed in his or her work. Highly recommend you to check it out!

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All I can say is so so cute and innocent Saturday and Sunday are. The idea and concept behind the book is unique. It was a very nice read. Good for a weekend read and really quick.

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Cute set of vignettes focused on two lizards attempting to understand the meaning of existence. Wholesome, not very deep, but engages with lots of different perspectives (religion! science! hedonism! fear!) and the art is really gorgeously cartoonish - reminds me of Jeff Smith's Bone crossed with Dr. Seuss. Fun and diverting.

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Saturday and Sunday are the names of the main characters, who happen to be lizards. These comics have definite Calvin and Hobbes vibes to them. The humor itself is very self aware. There's a scene near the beginning where one character asks another what his earliest memory is, and in a thought bubble it shows the first panel of the comic between them. Also it was very surprising how developed the world itself was. There are tons of places and characters that you run into. You wouldn't expect what at first seems like a simple comic to be epic in scope. Lots of care and dedication went into it's creation. I would recommend this to people who like Calvin and Hobbes, Bones, and other such comics.

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Two lizards, called Saturday and Sunday, live on an atoll, and Saturday suddenly realised he doesn't really know how they came to be on that atoll. Hey kids, it's existential crisis time!

This leads to more questions, regarding the meaning of life, what is the point of it all and so on. Sunday doesn't have the answers, so they start looking for other people (well, creatures) who perhaps can help them.

There's the suggestion they might come from the other side of the atoll, which they can't remember ever having been to, and so they start traveling.

It's all very gentle, told with a lot of humour and in a cute art style. Where they end up is no surprise, but this book is definitely a case of it's about the road traveled, not the destination.

3.5 stars

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This fast-paced and silly comic book follows the adventures of Saturday and Sunday, two lizards who are looking for the answers to some big questions. The antics are fun and harmless, and I even found myself chuckling here and there. The innocence in which the characters look for meaning is refreshing; this would make a great read for a curious child. It felt a little drawn out for me, but comics aren’t typically my forte!

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Light and breezy, with the episodic rhythms of a classic newspaper strip. This book, the first in a series, chronicles the adventures of a pair of anthropomorphic lizards, one grumpy and questioning (Saturday), the other laid-back and accepting (Sunday), who go on a quest to learn more about their place in the world. Do they find answers? Not really, but this is more of a "journey-is-the-destination" type of tale. Along the ways our heroes encounter a range of lightly philosophical dangers, from an over-worked, entrepreneurial T-rex to a visit to a "Valley of Unspeakable Happiness" that calls to mind the Lotus Eaters from the Odyssey. The story has the feel of being almost wholly improvisational in nature, and each short, picaresque episode resolves itself without really building to something bigger. The art by Gwen de Bonneval is airy and reminiscent of old-school newspaper strips and Franco-Belgian classics like "The Smurfs." This is an early work from the author Fabien Vehlmann (it was first published in French way back in 2001), like many anglophone readers I was first exposed to his work with the much more complex and intense album "Beautiful Darkness," so the purely light charms of "Saturday and Sunday" were a bit unexpected, but no complaints, this book is what it is: short, simple, and silly.

*Book provided by Europe Comics and NetGalley.

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I liked the artwork but I found that the story was a bit confusing. We never do find any the answers.

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Great illustrations and tone of voice throughout.

I found the characters likeable and could easily see this being a YouTube series of short videos or something similar!

Very nice to have a light read - although som big questions were asked!

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Saturday and Sunday have a lot of questions that need answering. Like where did they come from? What’s rock heaven? What happens when you die? And is Bob really an old friend? Humorous and silly, this wasn’t an incredible comic but it was enjoyable nough.

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Funny, chaotic characters alert!
And who doesn't love Saturdays and Sundays (even if it's during the quarantine period where we can say everyday is a Saturday and a Sunday?!)

It's about two characters Saturday and Sunday who went to search and find answers to the endless queries they have about everything.

But they did find more than what they had expected!

It's an adventure to read this one. Perfect even for a read out loud to kids.

As I said, the characters are chaotic.

Thank you #NetGalley for the book.

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