Teen Titans: Raven: Volume 1

Overall, I think this book was a bit clique and too in-your-face regarding Raven's amnesia, as well as messages about homosexuality feminism, and struggling as a teenager. Many every characters only have one belief or personality trait to them, making them bland and uninteresting. What really threw me off, however, is the amounts of realiatic witchcraft put in this book. Somehow I didn't notice or care as a kid watching the old TV show that her father was a demon, but my morals have changed since then. Some positive aspects of the book are Raven's personality is the same as you remember (with some character development), and the art style is gorgous! It was written by the fans, for the fans.

The art is wonderful, and its style and colour are really fitting. However, I found the story rather flat. Feels like the characters were missing personality, and it lacked emotional gravity (considering the main character just recently lost her mom and her memory). The writing felt rushed and a bit messy. The magic system of this story was just poorly handled. As a Raven and Teen Titans fan, I was primed to love this, but I was just underwhelmed. 2.5 stars

When it comes to DC, I'm really only into the movies and some of the TV series, but Kami garcia's teen titans is so good! the first, Raven, is very well written, love her character arc, however, I do have some complaints, Raven's friend group (aside from Max) kinda aren't great supporting characters, Tommy is a pretty good villian, but as a character, I hate him.