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Nook
Avery and her parents flee to a remote town on the border of France where she finds her new best friend, a ghostly cat named Nook.
Fleeing the oppression of WWII Germany, Avery and her parents move to a remote town on the border of France. It is here she finds her new best friend, a cat named Nook. But, there is more to this cat than it seems.
A dark and twisted history longs to be revealed. Avery is swept up into a deadly cycle of violence and will come to both fear and love her fuzzy new friend as the history of her new home is revealed.
Fleeing the oppression of WWII Germany, Avery and her parents move to a remote town on the border of France. It is here she finds her new best friend, a cat named Nook. But, there is more to this cat than it seems.
A dark and twisted history longs to be revealed. Avery is swept up into a deadly cycle of violence and will come to both fear and love her fuzzy new friend as the history of her new home is revealed.
120 pages, Paperback
Published November 15, 2022
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May 12, 2024
This is a hard one to rate. The story is very good, heart-breaking and raw, full of the violence of WWII perpetrated on citizens and innocent people just trying to live their lives. It’s Brutal. That said, I wish the story were a little more fleshed out. And in the second half when the original girl in the nook gets screen time, it’s hard to tell her apart from the Main Character, Avery. And what’s with that name? That is a modern American girl’s name, if there ever was one. But this is supposed to be a German family in the Second World War. They should’ve named her Barbara or Margit or something more German, or at least less obviously anachronistic and incongruous. I’m afraid it really detracted from my enjoyment of the story.
In the end, I decided to rate this 3.5 stars rounded down to 3 because it's otherwise an ambitious story, which does justice to the subject matter.
In the end, I decided to rate this 3.5 stars rounded down to 3 because it's otherwise an ambitious story, which does justice to the subject matter.
August 7, 2019
I really liked this one; a slow, moody story, grim enough that you aren't sure what's going to happen, beautifully creepy, and deeply satisfying.
July 4, 2022
This was phenomenal!
November 10, 2022
Read in single issues as serialized by Source Point Press.
This was a creepy (and somewhat charming) horror comic set during WWII. The illustrations were moody and evocative, with a nice straightforward and satisfying story to boot. A girl, her family and the their family cat all flee the Nazis and settle in a house on the border of France, but as they wait in dread for the impending Nazi incursion, some disturbing events start to happen. The story is somewhat brief and I feel would have benefitted with a little more meat to it, but overall it handles it core themes well and was an enjoyable read.
This was a creepy (and somewhat charming) horror comic set during WWII. The illustrations were moody and evocative, with a nice straightforward and satisfying story to boot. A girl, her family and the their family cat all flee the Nazis and settle in a house on the border of France, but as they wait in dread for the impending Nazi incursion, some disturbing events start to happen. The story is somewhat brief and I feel would have benefitted with a little more meat to it, but overall it handles it core themes well and was an enjoyable read.
June 28, 2025
Jeez! That ending was dark. The rest of the book was fine. A family runs from Germany during the start of World War II. Hoping to see refuge at an abandoned house. The girl finds a stray cat and potentially a ghost hiding in the nook under the stairs. It's all fine and nothing crazy. Until the Nazis come. In that short few minutes, this little girl's life completely disappears around her and we're left in awe. Wondering how the series will continue. The art is definitely up my alley. Black and white. Gritty and dark. I really hope I can find more issues of this. Because damn! That ending has me so curious! Really cool stuff!
July 28, 2019
A haunting look at a young girl's life during WW2.
September 10, 2019
Beautiful story.
September 25, 2022
Actually read this in comic format as they came out.
A sad ghost story set against a backdrop of war and history repeating. Definitely worth a read.
A sad ghost story set against a backdrop of war and history repeating. Definitely worth a read.
July 20, 2019
Have been looking forward to this book for a very long time and am not disappointed. The art is a little 1970s comic book for my taste--the first thing I thought of was Mad Magazine--and the writing isn't as strong as it maybe could be, but the story itself carries the book. It's lovely to own in print, but it could be just as effective (and affecting) orally.
The characters are Germans in the French countryside, but they're really Americans and this isn't a WWII story. It isn't preachy or overtly political (besides taking the only recently controversial position that the Nazis are the bad guys), yet it is very much a story for this time and place. The wickedness of powerful men and the destruction they wage on whole nations is neatly distilled to the lives of two families, two little girls, and one occasionally corporeal cat.
Perhaps the most important lesson of all in Nook is this: When the cat's morality is superior to that of the humans in charge, we need to start being better humans.
The characters are Germans in the French countryside, but they're really Americans and this isn't a WWII story. It isn't preachy or overtly political (besides taking the only recently controversial position that the Nazis are the bad guys), yet it is very much a story for this time and place. The wickedness of powerful men and the destruction they wage on whole nations is neatly distilled to the lives of two families, two little girls, and one occasionally corporeal cat.
Perhaps the most important lesson of all in Nook is this: When the cat's morality is superior to that of the humans in charge, we need to start being better humans.
October 17, 2020
This was really beautiful!
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