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I received an ARC copy of this book from NetGalleyactual rating: 3.5I haven't read the first volume in this series but they seem to all be standalone stories set in the same universe and I didn't really feel like I was missing any important information. The art is absolutely gorgeous and the delicate almost anime-like features on many of the characters are a great contrast to the dark and detailed architecture that makes up the background. The story is interesting although it really seems to mov...

Much better than the first volume Petit which was about these inbred giants who ruled over humanity, squishing and eating them when they could. This is more of a sidequel, telling the story of a young, male courtesan who rises up to become chancellor for said giants. Most of this reads like historical fiction, detailing how this bastard of a lord rose up to run the kingdom. It's only toward the end when the weird giants make an appearance again. The art is incredibly detailed, especially the arc...

2,5/5. After enjoying the first one in this series, this one left my on my appetite. The Ogre Gods are just not there enough, almost not there at all and this was disappointing. I enjoy the black an white art a lot but the story lack what make it special in the first place. Introducing written full text chapters to present characters is also a concept I still enjoy, but again, not enough. original form, but the story hurts it all.

J'ai retrouvé avec plaisir l'univers créé par Hubert et Bertrand Gatignol.Bien que cela se passe sur la même temporalité que le premier tome, j'ai trouvé cette lecture assez différente. Tandis que Petit se concentrait sur les ogres, on découvre ici l'univers des hommes. J'ai trouvé cette histoire plus sombre que la précédente. Il y est question de pouvoir, de complots et de manipulations.Au départ, j'avais trouvé Yori attendrissant par son passé. Néanmoins, au fil des pages, il change radicaleme...

Disappointing after the first great volume. The characters were all lackluster, same thing for the plot which was the regular story of a guy ready to do anything to rise to power. Had a hard time believing everyone fell for the manipulation of MC too. The worst here were the reading bits : while in the last book they were really interesting and gave you important info for the story, here they were needless and hindered the flow of the plot.

'Half-Blood: The Ogre Gods Book Two' by Hubert Boulard with art by Bertrand Gatignol continues the grotesque world of brutish giants and the humans that serve them.The half-blood of the title is Yori. Son of a noble and his mistress, Yori and his mom find themselves cast in the street and make their way the way most people with no job skills do. Yori has a plan though, and uses his body to find his way back in the castle to get his vengeance.I like this world, but I wouldn't want to live in it.

4.2

Just as lush and darkly delicious as its predecessor with the added bonus of a deeper and way more devious story coming to the fore. Highly recommended for all fans of graphic fantasy, I am eagerly awaiting volume 3.Vive la France!

Toujours aussi bon graphiquement et toujours autant d'intérêt à suivre ces personnages atypiques.

J'ai trouvé ce volume plus clair et plus intérressant que le premier.

Le concept mélant récits historiques introductifs et pages BD alternés est beaucoup mieux exploité dans ce deuxième tome. Et comme en sus on a conservé la qualité du crayon et la cruauté du monde c'est une bonne surprise. La capacité des histoires à se lire en stand-alone tout en enrichissant l'univers dans lesquelles elles se déroulent est un atout supplémentaire.

Un très bel objet avec une BD en noir et blanc aux décors détaillés.J'aime particulièrement le Livre des chambellans qui vient interrompre la narration lorsqu'un des anciens chambellans est mentionné.On a envie de se promener davantage dans ces décors, que ce soit le palais des ogres-dieux ou les villes du commun des mortels. Peut-être avec Petit, premier tome des Ogres-Dieux que je n'ai pas lu (ce qui n'est pas un problème pour comprendre cette histoire)

Thanks NetGalley for the opportunity to review this ARC, in exchange for an honest review. The artwork in this book is INCREDIBLE! The story is also quite good, but the artwork is mesmerizing, truly and completely. I have to search for the first book, but the coverage is so complete in this book that I really I am going to look back at the artwork. I generally don't bother reading the "in between parts", however, you definitely don't want to skip over those parts, they are equally as rich as the...

Fermo restando che il vero punto di forza di questa saga sono i disegni di Gatignol, insieme ariosi e plastici, Mezzo Sangue presenta una storia ancora più feroce del precedente volume, con un protagonista più sgradevole ma anche più interessante. Quello che funziona un po' meno sono gli inserti in prosa, che creano delle pause non sempre organiche al ritmo del racconto.

Having greatly enjoyed the first volume in The Ogre Gods series, Petit, I was disappointed by this supposed sequel. I was looking forward to the further adventures of Petit, a pint-sized giant, yet that is not what happens here. Instead, we are given a parallel story of human chamberlains, only slightly tangentially touching on the events of the first book.This parallel story in terms of themes is also very closely aligned to the drama and conflicts in the first book, so that added to the feelin...

Book two in the Petit series. This book tells the story of Yori who rises from poverty to become an all powerful chamberlain. In book one Yori was the chamberlain to the Ogres who managed to find Petit the half - ogre and this story shows us his life and how he rose to power.Yor is also a Half-Blood, the son of a noble-born and his mistress. Yori is brought up with the noble man's legitimate children, but he and his mother are thrown out of their home when he fights with his step brothers. Yori

Après avoir lu le tome 1 je me suis lancée dans le tome 2. Dans ce tome on se place du point de vue des humains et on apprend l’histoire des Chamberlans dans l’histoire. Je trouve toujours l’histoire très violente et noire. Aucun personnage pour racheter la cruauté de ce monde. Humains ou ogres tout est noirceur.Quant aux dessins, j’ai vraiment du mal. Je trouve que beaucoup de visages se ressemblent. Ils sont tous distordus sauf celui du personnage principal (excepté à la fin).Je ne sais pas si...

This is book two of the Ogre Gods and once again, I was enveloped into a fascinating, cruel and nasty world. I expected another story about the giants but instead we get the human perspective of living among the giants. Yori is the illegitimate son of a noble born. His mother loves Yori's father, who promises them a wonderful life as long as they stay in the shadows and don't cause any trouble. Well trouble comes to Yori, whose father throws him and his mother out. Yori never forgives this and p...

Absolutely beautiful and an interesting tie in to Petit , but just not as compelling a story. It tells the human(ish) half of Petit's adventures and sets things up for the next book (presumably) but isn't something I'd care for as it's own story. We'll see how the next one plays out.