Book Review
Title: Open Earth Volume 1
Author: Sarah Mirk, Eva Cabrera (Artist) & Claudia Aguirre (Artist)
Genre: Graphic Novel
Rating: *****
Review: So, all I can gather about the graphic novel is that it is about poly-amorous relationships in space, so score one for this novel. So we are introduced to Rigo who has lived her whole live in space after the collapse of Earth. So, we are introduced to a whole host of characters commonly known as the non-Earth born generation which include Rigo who are all 20 or younger. Everyone over 20 is part of the Earthborn generation and willingly left everything behind including Rigo’s parents. Through them, she learns that they might never go back to Earth until all the Earth-borns have died as they don’t really want to face everything they abandoned back on Earth.
However, Rigo and the other non-Earth born children don’t understand the concept of monogamy and all the characters we are introduced to including Rigo, Carver, Hex, Franklin, and Atwood are all in a poly-amorous relationship. The main reason they have for this is that it limits the genetic pool although all take some form of birth control to limit the population. While we don’t get to see Rigo with another woman in this volume we do see her with 3 males at different times and she doesn’t have a brief fantasy about a girl making it clear that she is bisexual.
Overall, I really liked how the poly-amorous relationship is portrayed and how open and honest they all are with one another and work out their issues together. While it does appear that Rigo is closer to Carver than anyone else both are concerned that moving in together will isolate them from the others and take special measures to make sure this doesn’t happen. I also like how nudity among them isn’t something that bothers them and many of openly naked at the same time without any shame which is a direct contrast to Rigo’s parents who turns out the lights when she returns home while they are having some fun and are concerned that she might have seen them, when in all honesty she wouldn’t have cared at all. I really enjoyed Open Earth and I will definitely be reading more soon.
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I received this review copy from NetGalley
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