Le piège

La balade de Yaya #7

by Jean-Marie Omont, Golo Zhao (Illustrator), Patrick Marty

Zhu a sauvé Yaya d'une attaque de loups dans la forêt. Cette dernière, qui n'a toujours pas retrouvé la mémoire, ne reconnaît pas le monstre, le prend pour un bon samaritain et le suit jusqu'à Hong Kong où il lui a promis de la ramener à ses parents. Pendant ce temps, Tuduo tient sa promesse et se rend lui aussi à Hong Kong pour lui annoncer leur mort.

Genres: Bande Dessinée, Comics, Asia, Graphic Novels

95 pages, Hardcover

First published May 23, 2013

Reviews

[Geoff · Rating 3 out of 5]

The 7th short book in this endearing collection continues the twists and turns of Yaya's journey to find her parents. The art of these books is super cute (reminiscent of Studio Ghibli movies) and there is an undercurrent of danger and menace in both the foreground and background of every volume. This is also a good example of a story set against the backdrop of more epic events. It's a nice storytelling technique to see the small details and the story of just a few lives set in and around the Japanese invasion of China in World War 2. This volume cranks up the farce a bit as there as missed connections, misdirection, and a lot of deceit to unravel.

**Thanks to the artist, publisher, and NetGalley for a free copy in exchange for an honest review.

[Chad · Rating 4 out of 5]

Part Manga, part storybook, this French comic is strangely enthralling. Yaya is a kind of stupid girl now with short-term amnesia. She remembers the family she is parted from but doesn't remember that the man helping her is actually a criminal who wants to ransom her to her rich parents. On her trail are her two friends as they travel through China.

Received a review copy from Magnetic Press and Edelweiss. All thoughts are my own and in no way influenced by the aforementioned.

[Shirley McAllister · Rating 3 out of 5]

Dangerous Journey

Yaya is searching for her parents. She thinks they are in Hong Kong with her uncle Chen. A man says he will help her, she does not know the man is a dangerous person.

After many adventures along the way the reach Hong Kong and find that her parents are not on Hong Kong but in Shanghai where they had just been. Now they have to go on a ship back to Shanghai.

The story ends there, it must continue in volume eight. The book was easy to read and the story good. It is only the second graphic novel I have read .

Thanks to Patrick Marty and the other authors, Magnetic Press, and NetGalley for allowing me to read a copy of the book for an honest review.

[RVGSteve · Rating 3 out of 5]

The Ballad of Yaya is a 9 volume series about two resourceful kids, each with different strengths and weaknesses, that follows their (mis)adventures as they are on the run to find Yaya’s parents in war torn China while being pursued by the evil war lord, Zhu. I’ve generally loved the series thus far, rating each volume 4 stars. However, volume 7 was the weakest entry up to this point. That’s because they overused an amnesia plot that feels very lazy because it’s a convenient way to make Zhu and Yaya travel together when she wouldn’t in any other scenario.

It carried on for the whole 96 pages and felt like filler. We only have two entries left so I am hoping Yaya regains her memory and we end on a high note. Volume 8 is subtitled “The Return” so it seems to be hinting that we’ll see a return to form for Yaya.

[Josh 谢翊杰 · Rating 5 out of 5]

I'm so panicked! Yaya is trying to get to her family in Hong Kong lead by the slimy Zhu! And Tuduo is trying to find Yaya and continue helping her to find her family. It was horribly sad that the house with the girl was raided by the Japanese. War is so devastating. I really felt for Tuduo when he thought the little girl that was killed was Yaya. Now Yaya is heading back to Shanghai thinking her parents never left, but in fact they did leave but never arrived in Hong Kong. I'm sacred for them! How is this going to end in 2 books?

The illustrations are still so stunning!

[Yami · Rating 3 out of 5]

A book that is defined as "the way to", art is undoubtedly beautiful, I find it interesting, if I felt that very little happened and this book did not clarify many doubts, I hope the next one does.

[margaux · Rating 3 out of 5]

3,5

[Lori · Rating 5 out of 5]

I haven't read many graphic novels or comics but the cover and description of this one really caught my eye. This book is beautifully illustrated with a superb story line. This is book 7 and I had not read the previous Yaya books so I did not know the story line. I liked how the authors brought in Japanese and French cultures into the story as well as the historical background. This is a great book for middle grade readers up to adults. I purchased the first book in the series so that I could have a better understanding of the storyline going forward. And I plan to continue with the series.

[Laura · Rating 4 out of 5]

The continuing story of Yaya, who is a bit of a dummy, at times, being helped by the bad guys, because he wants to ransom her to her rich parents.

And this is all happening while the Japanese invade, during World War II.

If you have read the other books in the series, you need to read this one, but this would not be the one to start with, by all means, since there are at least nine volumes.

I've been enjoying the story.

Thanks to Netgalley for making this book available for an honest review.

[Theediscerning · Rating 4 out of 5]

There's nought so fickle as the Book Reviewing Gods, who way back when allowed me to see the first book in this very snappy, larky adventure, only to now give me Books 7, 8 and 9 in a weird kind of giving-closure gesture. So I've missed five whole episodes of what seems to have left its mix of "Titanic" meets "Pearl Harbor (sic)" and given something more along the lines of that there "Singapore Grip" without the rubber companies. And the sex. Our heroine is with the evil baddy, but that's because she's now amnesiac; her best friend is with her talking pigeon who remains quite quiet in this episode, as he and his friend and a dog are on her trail. Coming here practically fresh it's more than a little difficult to work out who's exactly where, or why, but by this stage a review should only cater to the fans, and this episode will hit the mark with them. The baddy's talent for getting his own way is definitely amusing, and we not only get a pell-mell sled chase but a drama on a crashing plane. And it still takes just twenty minutes to read – these really have a lot of vim and vigour about them, and I hope they do come out in three trilogy volumes as they did in the original French, for the sense of achievement 260pp like these would give to a young reader could be inestimable. Let's hope 2021's planned anime makes these worldwide famous.