Review of "Everyone's a aliebn when ur a aliebn too" on 'Goodreads'
2 stars
I'm a little disappointed. At times this read a bit too much like a children's book tbh. While there were some cute little moments, all of it felt very shallow because it was literally one sentence per idea, not a cohesive message throughout. The blurb reads so nicely that makes you think you might get a lot out of reading it but there is little to no exploration of anything brought up and has next to no narrative either. The drawings are a little too minimalistic for me. They didn't really add anything since there was almost no facial expressions or body language. Each scene/panel takes up an entire page so that the book felt a little sparse and picture book like. "Nothing" was a theme in the book, but it doesn't justify how lacking I found the art to be. When you have minimal words AND minimal art, you …
I'm a little disappointed. At times this read a bit too much like a children's book tbh. While there were some cute little moments, all of it felt very shallow because it was literally one sentence per idea, not a cohesive message throughout. The blurb reads so nicely that makes you think you might get a lot out of reading it but there is little to no exploration of anything brought up and has next to no narrative either. The drawings are a little too minimalistic for me. They didn't really add anything since there was almost no facial expressions or body language. Each scene/panel takes up an entire page so that the book felt a little sparse and picture book like. "Nothing" was a theme in the book, but it doesn't justify how lacking I found the art to be. When you have minimal words AND minimal art, you truly are left with "nothing" much.
All that said, there are some cute moments and the positive messaging that is there some people might find comforting. I can see it as a book to come back to whenever you're feeling down to have a wholesome escape for 15 minutes. Not for me, but for some people I guess lol.