I devoured this book, the story is highly addictive and captivating. I genuinely felt like I was watching an episode where Black Mirror meets Nerve as I read. Great storytelling that then is used to highlight the issues of current technologies— not a far-fetched or otherworldly tale but something we live with every day.
Although I believe the illustration style aligns well with the plot, it wasn't of my taste. Plus, there were moments where I felt it leaned too heavily on the explicit content, despite it being a central theme of the story.
Overall, I enjoyed it immensely. It's a quick, fun read (with some horny college students), and I'll be keeping an eye out for the rest of the stories because I want to learn more about Crave.

Massive thanks to NetGalley and Image Comics for the opportunity to read an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review 💘.

Crave
I absolutely love the concept of this graphic novel, I feel like it opens up such an important discourse especially with how digitized our world is. This comic also lends itself to a bit more contemplation with dating and how instant society is and the dangers within that. This book starts out with this new app that can make anything that you want happen. Which honestly doesn’t seem that far off because it interlinks with all of your socials and then basses its calculations off of its learner data and then either tells you it can’t make it happen or gives you some insight on how to get your dreams. I feel like this comic would be fantastic as a movie or screen adaptation especially with how stunning the visuals are. I don’t know if this comic is shortened but we don’t really get invested into the characters and their storylines feel extremely rushed and flat, if we cared a little more about the characters I could see myself loving this comic even more. The graphic nature of this comic is also interesting, like I didn’t mind it but I feel like graphic content in this context should be beneficial to they story progression and ultimately move things forward but for this comic it just seemed like a grab factor like “look at this they’re all hot and doing kinky things.” And it didn’t help the story in my opinion. Overall this comic is a solid 2.5 maybe 3 if the dialog was a bit more interesting and we were able to invest more into our characters, the explicit scenes were more meaningful and we got to see more character development. But overall and extremely fun and quick read and I will tune in to see whatever happens with this comic series for sure