Seconds

327 pages

French language

Published Dec. 24, 2014 by Dargaud.

ISBN:
978-2-205-07356-0
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OCLC Number:
899240108

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5 stars (1 review)

« Katie, chef de cuisine, est sur le point d'ouvrir un second restaurant mais les problèmes s'accumulent : les travaux n'avancent pas, sa meilleure serveuse se blesse, son ancien fiancé réapparaît, etc. » --

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Review of 'Seconds' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

(Crossposted from my blog: daariga.wordpress.com/2015/07/19/seconds/)

Seconds
will hopefully be the last of guilty pleasures I’ve been treating myself to after The Count of Monte Cristo. This is a graphic novel from the fecund imagination of Bryan Lee O’Malley, famous for the Scott Pilgrim series.

The artwork in this is gorgeous: heavily borrowing from manga and pictures from Russian storybooks. (The latter were easily available in Indian libraries in the 80s.) The story revolves around Katie, who co-owns a restaurant and is planning to run her own one day. She discovers a house spirit, whose mushrooms can help change reality. Weird stuff starts happening once she goes overboard on having a perfect life by fixing everything using mushrooms.

I enjoyed Seconds so much that I’m highly tempted to read Scott Pilgrim next. I found the Westernized-manga character art incredibly cute and the colors are lush and dark. The story …

Subjects

  • Women cooks
  • Comic books, strips
  • Errors
  • Cuisinières (Personnes)
  • Bandes dessinées
  • Erreurs